Hi guys, i'm having a lot of problems with my PC recently and it is very frustrating. When i couldn't figure out what was causing it i rolled any overclocks back to stock and reformatted my system. I am still having problems though. I am getting lag spikes quite a lot, during gaming and even during web browsing. Earlier i was playing BFBC2 and talking to my friend on skype and skype was saying that my computer isn't fast enough for the call but somehow his was fine. His is C2D E7500, 4GB DDR2 with HD 5770. As well as Skype having problems, i was getting a lot of lag in BF too.
These slowdowns generally just feel like i'm on an old, slow PC that can't cope and that just shouldn't be the case.
Someone suggested keeping an eye on the resource monitor in task manager and that really doesn't look healthy. I am getting spikes in CPU usage, even while idling with Firefox open it spikes to 40% every few seconds. Also in RAM it says:
Available ~556MB
Cached ~574MB
Total 2039Mb
Installed 4096Mb
Does that sound about right? Also says 71% used physical memory, that seems high.
I am in 64 Bit Windows in a clean reinstall with only a few basic programs and games, i just don't understand what could be slowing me down.
Things i have tried:
Memtest (returned no errors)
HD Tune Scan (returned no errors)
AVG Full Scan (returned no errors)
Malwarebytes Scan (returned no errors)
Restoring Default BIOS Settings (RAID 0)
Tried RAM in different slots
Testing in WEI to see if that thinks anything seems slow (My RAM is at 5.5, seems a bit low but obviously WEI isn't exactly reliable.)
Anyone have any ideas on what to do next? I'm climbing the walls here, i can't find a solution. Thanks so much in advance.
These slowdowns generally just feel like i'm on an old, slow PC that can't cope and that just shouldn't be the case.
Someone suggested keeping an eye on the resource monitor in task manager and that really doesn't look healthy. I am getting spikes in CPU usage, even while idling with Firefox open it spikes to 40% every few seconds. Also in RAM it says:
Available ~556MB
Cached ~574MB
Total 2039Mb
Installed 4096Mb
Does that sound about right? Also says 71% used physical memory, that seems high.
I am in 64 Bit Windows in a clean reinstall with only a few basic programs and games, i just don't understand what could be slowing me down.
Things i have tried:
Memtest (returned no errors)
HD Tune Scan (returned no errors)
AVG Full Scan (returned no errors)
Malwarebytes Scan (returned no errors)
Restoring Default BIOS Settings (RAID 0)
Tried RAM in different slots
Testing in WEI to see if that thinks anything seems slow (My RAM is at 5.5, seems a bit low but obviously WEI isn't exactly reliable.)
Anyone have any ideas on what to do next? I'm climbing the walls here, i can't find a solution. Thanks so much in advance.