PC specs are in the bottom, this is a PCSpecialist PC which is 6/7 years old now apart from the SSD boot drive which I added in a year ago.
Issues:
1) Over the past week upon starting a new process such a opening a new tab/window in Firefox or opening a new program or using the windows search bar for example, the computation takes way longer than usual and everything seems to be struggling despite the task manager performances looking relatively standard. When launching a relatively low demanding game such as Counter Strike my in-game fps would fluctuate between 120+ and 3 each frame rendering the game more than unplayable, other games such as Minecraft on the lowest settings ran at 1-30 fps, whereas normally both games would perform at 90+ on good settings. Even dragging around a window on my desktop often causes the window to lag behind. The attatched files are screenshots taken from task manager while just using my browser to multitask as well as screenshots of the temperatures of the processors.
2) On a sidenote, before these problems my GPU fans would run very loudly when playing a somewhat demanding game such as PUBG and my PC would perform very poorly (40 fps average) in these types of games and even some more detailed Counter Strike maps when playing on low settings. This has been a problem for about 3 years now, so i assumed it was just the parts getting old but as time has gone on I’ve realised that this is very subpar for my spec even 4 years down the line.
Any advice on either 2 points would be greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance for your help
RAW PC SPECS:
• CPU: Intel Core i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690 (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
• Motherboard: ASUS Z97-P: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
• RAM: 8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
• Graphics Card: 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
• (My Custom Addon) 1st Hard Disk: 120 GB Kingston Technology SV300S37A/120G Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3
• 2nd Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM (64MB + 8GB SSD CACHE)
• PSU: CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
• Processor Cooling: INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro (x64)
Issues:
1) Over the past week upon starting a new process such a opening a new tab/window in Firefox or opening a new program or using the windows search bar for example, the computation takes way longer than usual and everything seems to be struggling despite the task manager performances looking relatively standard. When launching a relatively low demanding game such as Counter Strike my in-game fps would fluctuate between 120+ and 3 each frame rendering the game more than unplayable, other games such as Minecraft on the lowest settings ran at 1-30 fps, whereas normally both games would perform at 90+ on good settings. Even dragging around a window on my desktop often causes the window to lag behind. The attatched files are screenshots taken from task manager while just using my browser to multitask as well as screenshots of the temperatures of the processors.
2) On a sidenote, before these problems my GPU fans would run very loudly when playing a somewhat demanding game such as PUBG and my PC would perform very poorly (40 fps average) in these types of games and even some more detailed Counter Strike maps when playing on low settings. This has been a problem for about 3 years now, so i assumed it was just the parts getting old but as time has gone on I’ve realised that this is very subpar for my spec even 4 years down the line.
Any advice on either 2 points would be greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance for your help
RAW PC SPECS:
• CPU: Intel Core i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690 (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
• Motherboard: ASUS Z97-P: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
• RAM: 8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
• Graphics Card: 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
• (My Custom Addon) 1st Hard Disk: 120 GB Kingston Technology SV300S37A/120G Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3
• 2nd Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM (64MB + 8GB SSD CACHE)
• PSU: CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
• Processor Cooling: INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro (x64)
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