- Mar 26, 2018
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Bought pre-built dell PC in Q3 2012. Started having lag issues last September. After playing almost any game for a while(15-20 mins) , the screen and sound would start freezing/stuttering for about a second every minute or so and this would continue to happen even if I closed the game( example -while watching a video) . Only fix was to restart the PC everytime it occured. I found a quick way to trigger the lag = look at smoke in video games(when somebody throws a smoke grenade or something). Things I've already tried:
-Ran a bunch of scans(Malwarebytes , Malwarebytes adwcleaner , Reason Core Security) and quarantined anything they considered dangerous
-Cleaned my PC for the first time ever in the last week(I thought temps had something to do with this lag)
Went from ~80 degrees celsius both CPU and GPU to mid 60s for CPU and low 70s for the GPU.
-Checked HDD health on crystal disk info , it showed perfect health.
PC specifications : GTX 660 , 8gb ddr3, and i5-3450
Yesterday , I noticed something strange:
The GPU core and memory clocks would drop to ~300MHz everytime the freeze/stuttering happened. I had an old GT 640 lying around and decided to install it . So far , I have yet to experience the same kind of lag I faced before. Is there any way to confirm that the previous GPU(GTX 660) was faulty and it is not the under-utilization of the CPU(due to a much weaker GPU) which is causing my PC to run fine now?I don't want to get a new GPU only to find that the lag has returned
Please help!
-Ran a bunch of scans(Malwarebytes , Malwarebytes adwcleaner , Reason Core Security) and quarantined anything they considered dangerous
-Cleaned my PC for the first time ever in the last week(I thought temps had something to do with this lag)
Went from ~80 degrees celsius both CPU and GPU to mid 60s for CPU and low 70s for the GPU.
-Checked HDD health on crystal disk info , it showed perfect health.
PC specifications : GTX 660 , 8gb ddr3, and i5-3450
Yesterday , I noticed something strange:
The GPU core and memory clocks would drop to ~300MHz everytime the freeze/stuttering happened. I had an old GT 640 lying around and decided to install it . So far , I have yet to experience the same kind of lag I faced before. Is there any way to confirm that the previous GPU(GTX 660) was faulty and it is not the under-utilization of the CPU(due to a much weaker GPU) which is causing my PC to run fine now?I don't want to get a new GPU only to find that the lag has returned
Please help!