What causes this lag on my computer?

zkalle

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Jan 20, 2018
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Hello, my computer has always been lagging but recently it has just gotten waaaaaay worse, which is really annoying since i like to play competitive games.
What causes this? Could it be my Harddrive? Ram?:)
i'm running i5 8600k CPU
1050 TI GPU
Z370 motherboard
a 2tb harddrive 7200rpm
8gb ram
500watt powersupply

What should i change to fix it? :-D
Everything is new on the computer except harddrive and powersupply

That "lag" i experience can be seen here: https://plays.tv/video/5a6e225223c471852a/hvad-er-det-her-for-noget-lorte-lag-?from=user
 

zkalle

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Jan 20, 2018
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Those 2 things are from a Acer Aspire computer from 5-6 years ago. And yes i have done 2 clean installs of windows on it. It used to be windows 7 on it, upgraded to windows 8 once and then did clean install of windows 10 after the "free windows 10" upgrade was done :D
 

SundownEditing

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That looks painful to play with, I'm not sure how you manage to play competitive with it...
Anyways, initially I have a feeling this is from your internet connection, does this occur with both online and offline gameplay or do you have a high ping? If not it most likely is a windows problem, so you may have to try to reinstall windows to see if that improves anything. I highly doubt this has anything to do with your components, ESPECIALLY since you said that almost all of them were new.

I would test your connection to check for high ping, then try reinstalling windows. Let me know how it goes or what you decide on doing! :)