Question Sporadic lag and more...

[VatariKaal]

I've had this pc for a no more than 3 or 4 months and it was working fine for a while until fairly recently it has been very slow and super laggy at times. The mouse will lag when moving it across the screen, programs will be slow to start if they do at all, and my audio would stutter and glitch out hard. These are only SOME of the problems I've encountered. I swear I've encounter new problems every day with this thing.

At first, I tried to simply restart it but it would then refuse and hang on the restart screen for a long time. Since then, I've tried to update drivers, physically clean it out, any potential fix I could find that may have worked for anyone else with the symptoms I had experienced. I've been trying to get it to run properly for about a month and a half. My last attempt was to switch out the old drive for a new ssd as the old one was small and almost out of space. I replaced it with a 500gb SSD and thought it was running fine until I encountered the same issues I was having before. Don't really know what else to do at this point. My next thought would be the upgrade my motherboard or CPU or something. But I'm not really 100% sure that that's where my issues are.

Also, I just want to add that during it's first month or 2, I could play games and run different programs for hours on end with no issue. Nothing changed before it started acting up. I've tried looking at other forum threads but nothing I've seen has really solved my issues. Let me know if there's any other information you need. Please help me lol

Computer: GIGABYTE
CPU: AMD FX-6300 (Piledriver/Vishera, OR-C0 (Orochi))
3500 MHz (17.50x200.0) @ 2511 MHz (12.50x200.9)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE 970A-DS3P FX
BIOS: F1, 07/13/2017
Chipset: AMD 990FX (RD990) + SB920/SB950
Memory: 8192 MBytes @ 669 MHz, 9-9-9-24
- 4096 MB PC10600 DDR3 SDRAM - Super Talent SUPERTALENT02
- 4096 MB PC10600 DDR3 SDRAM - Micron Tech. 16JTF51264AZ-1G4A1
Graphics: GIGABYTE GTX 1050 WindForce 2X OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 2048 MB GDDR5 SDRAM
Drive: WDC WDBNCE5000PNC, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
Drive: WDC WD10EARS-00MVWB0, 976.8 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Drive: hp CDDVDW SH-216DB, DVD+R DL
Sound: ATI/AMD SB800/Hudson-1 - High Definition Audio Controller
Sound: NVIDIA GP107 - High Definition Audio Controller
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Network: Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card
Network: TP-Link Wireless USB Adapter
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 18363.535 (1909/November 2019 Update)

 

[VatariKaal]

I think I've finally found the issue! Or at least a lead. My system starts to lag out when SYSTEM INTERRUPTS in my Task Manager. But even still, most other people I have seen with the same issue only experience lag when it is in the 30-50% range of CPU use. My PC lags out when it gets to be in the 3-10% range. I've tried various methods to reduce the System Interrupts CPU usage but I still get bouts of lag. Now I'm thinking I need to replace my Power Supply or upgrade my RAM. Would either of these things be my solution??