- Dec 13, 2009
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I've reinstalled W10 on this machine enough times now over the past year that I'm certain it's not software related. Used to work great so curious if my PC hardware is degrading?
Specs:
CPU: Coffee lake i7-8700 (no unusual spikes in activity)
MOBO: Asrock z370M-ITX AC
RAM: 16 GB PC4-24000 DDR4 SDRAM GeIL CL15-17-17 D4-3000
No GPU
Network: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168
USB keyboard sometimes lags when I type. Wireless G305 mouse will sometimes lag as well when moving cursor around. Changing USB ports doesn't help. Using older drivers doesn't help either.
Another odd thing that I discovered is that Retroarch has very poor performance even with atari 2600 stuff. It used to run just fine and reinstalling W10 didn't help. That led me to wonder if I'm having some kind of hardware issue. I used to have this setup in a small SFF case with a GPU, so I know it ran hot quite often when gaming. I wondered if that heat eventually degraded something like my CPU or something on my MOBO or RAM? I never used to have any issues at all with this hardware. I had it dismantled for a while in storage and put it back together without a GPU so that I can use it for mostly online activity and emulation of old consoles like Atari.
Is it worth replacing a component or should I just get a new PC? It wont' support Win 11 even with intel's trusted platform on so it'll be defunct in a few more years anyway.
Specs:
CPU: Coffee lake i7-8700 (no unusual spikes in activity)
MOBO: Asrock z370M-ITX AC
RAM: 16 GB PC4-24000 DDR4 SDRAM GeIL CL15-17-17 D4-3000
No GPU
Network: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168
USB keyboard sometimes lags when I type. Wireless G305 mouse will sometimes lag as well when moving cursor around. Changing USB ports doesn't help. Using older drivers doesn't help either.
Another odd thing that I discovered is that Retroarch has very poor performance even with atari 2600 stuff. It used to run just fine and reinstalling W10 didn't help. That led me to wonder if I'm having some kind of hardware issue. I used to have this setup in a small SFF case with a GPU, so I know it ran hot quite often when gaming. I wondered if that heat eventually degraded something like my CPU or something on my MOBO or RAM? I never used to have any issues at all with this hardware. I had it dismantled for a while in storage and put it back together without a GPU so that I can use it for mostly online activity and emulation of old consoles like Atari.
Is it worth replacing a component or should I just get a new PC? It wont' support Win 11 even with intel's trusted platform on so it'll be defunct in a few more years anyway.