trying to figure out why my pc lags

speedy45244

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For the past few weeks my computer has been lagging. Just moving my mouse around the desktop makes it lag. Games, videos, music etc lags. I thought it was a bad video driver so i installed an old driver but still lags. I tried a clean boot & stills lags. I thought it might be my internet but I unplug the modem & it still lags. I have a new hard drive & new video card everything else is roughly 7 yrs old. So i'm thinking maybe it's the motherboard or some other hardware going bad. My spec are windows 7 professional, intel core 2 quadq8300 @ 2.5oghz, 3.50 gb ram, gigabyte geoforce gtx660 with driver 314.22. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks
 
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so I re installed windows 7 and while installing my programs back I noticed that AVG anitvirus was causing it to lag So i removed it & so far it running good again
Check the NVIDIA Control Panel for the limit on frames to render ahead.
If it is not set to 2 or 3 then set it to 2 or 3.

Some 'optimizing applications' set the value to above 8; which is just stupid.


If you can't find the value just google for it, it's not that uncommon to see.
 

speedy45244

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so I re installed windows 7 and while installing my programs back I noticed that AVG anitvirus was causing it to lag So i removed it & so far it running good again
 
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