GreenHatMan

Well, I sure feel stupid. I've been running overclocked CPU for half a year, and it been stable, so it never hit me that could be the issue. Turning OC off fixed my problems.

How would I go about tracking it down?

Corsair RM750X 750W v2, haven't tried resetting CMOS yet, will give it a go.

Yeah, I only keep my OS on main SSD, rest of programs/games are on secondary drives, so the issue isn't limited to single drive. It seems I can't defrag SSD, but gonna try defragging others just for the sake of it.

Got over 100gb free out of 250, it's a SSD. Do they benefit from defragging?

Hi all. Suddenly most of my 3D games are really slow (even WoW classic takes 6 minutes to boot up!), as well as software (BattleNet launcher, Steam). Slow as in takes minutes to boot up (compared to seconds normally) as well as hanging up with "not responding" and slow on loading content, and in games I get stutter once they slowly booted up. The entire OS feels sluggish, it's like PC barely manages to run it without bigger hick-ups, but chokes on games. Installation of software seems slow, downloads in chrome are slow to finish (when virus scan is run on them, I guess). Even restarting system is slow, despite it being on SSD. Relatively new build, I'm on a Ryzen 2700 and GTX 1060/GTX 770. I first thought it's a bitcoin miner, but the GPU/CPU usage in task manager is completely normal. Tried benchmarking with CPU-Z thinking something wrong with CPU, it performed alright. Power settings are on performance what I can see. HDD/SSD read/write speed is normal. It feels like the CPU is operating at like 10% capacity, which is barely enough for browsers and some simple games/applications, rest hanging up. What can this possibly be, and how do I go about troubleshooting this? Already tried: - Running anti-virus (Super Anti Spyware/Malwarebytes). - Resetting to an earlier restore point a week ago (not sure if issue wasnt already existing back then tho). - Restarting computer. - Checking CPU fan for dust buildup. - Creating new user acc, problem persists. - Checking drives' SMART status, all fine except for my media dumping drive that I don't care about. - Booting in safe mode feels a bit faster, but can't confirm since no games can run without GPU. Edit: Turns out my overclock settings were causing the issue.