Decreasing Usability/Lag in Games/Loading times

[reaganl]

I'm concerned about the health of my computer. I bought my Powerspec G354 (specs below) as an open box from microcenter in May 2019 where I had the store boot the computer up before I took it home. When I got home I performed a userbenchmark test and got these results:  https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17163166 I have been able to run Overwatch on medium graphics and 100% render (I prefer higher fps) and can run the game at 300fps consistently but cap it at 240 for my monitor. Besides a few network disconnects caused by the internet in my apartment building (student oriented apartment living, internet provided, using ethernet,) my computer has run fine until about a month ago where I started noticing lag while playing Final Fantasy XIV Online, mostly while in a dungeon that has many people acting quickly at once. Yesterday I spent 20 minutes freezing and then watching the other 23 people in my raid speed by, but was able to communicate in text chat. I provided these details to my friend in IT and he said he believed it to be a SSD problem (WD Blue m.2, 500GB) after I said that moving to my hotspot did not fix the problem. Before I go and replace my boot drive, I'd like to get a second, third, fourth, etc. opinion. This is my userbenchmark from this morning: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/21537925 where it shows my SSD working well and lots of background CPU activity (everything closed, most everything disabled on boot. I don't believe my BIOS is needed to be updated yet because this is mostly focused on lag in that game and slower loading times, but Specs: (if specific setting not listed, assume default).

• Windows 10
• ASRock Z370 Gaming K6 (BIOS version 3.0, last updated 3/30/2018, newest is 4.20)
• Intel i7-8700K
• 2x8GB DDR4-3000MHz UNKNOWN BRAND RAM (Provided by Powerspec. Says "IEO FORZA")
• Zotac Nvidia GTX 1070Ti 
• WD Blue m.2 500GB SSD boot drive (check userbenchmark for specific numbers if need be?)
• Coolermaster Masterwatt Lite 600W

Thank you for reading, I'm just concerned about the vitality of my device and hope nothing drastic has to happen.

[samcool55]

Sounds to me like a network problem tho.

Also that's probably GEIL EVO forza memory. Quite decent stuff.

 

If you want to properly test your system, use cinebench for the CPU and unigine for anything gaming/gpu related

[reaganl]

2 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Sounds to me like a network problem tho.

Also that's probably GEIL EVO forza memory. Quite decent stuff.

 

If you want to properly test your system, use cinebench for the CPU and unigine for anything gaming/gpu related.

Okay thank you. I'll try and bring it to an area where I know the ethernet works well and test it there. I'm glad I got another opinion.

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, reaganl said:

Okay thank you. I'll try and bring it to an area where I know the ethernet works well and test it there. I'm glad I got another opinion.

 

What you can also do is try this test: https://www.dslreports.com/tools/pingtest

it does take a while so let it run for a few minutes.

It will spit out a grade after a while, that's what I need.