Is my PC dying?

[Meestagibbon]

So I'm a CS player (relatively the only game I play) and recently I've noticed that I've lost around 60 Avg FPS, and today, every other round my CS would just freeze for no reason, my cpu runs 55 degrees celcius max load. I also have been getting major input lag, every day my sens feels way off, and not by like how fast or slow, it just feels wrong. I've tried mousfix, launch options, raw input, no raw input. Nothing is working. Is my PC dying or am I missing something?
Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Ram: 8gb Kingston 1333

CPU: i3-2100

GFX: MSI GTX 760
Mouse: logitech g100s

Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z

Side note: My OS install is fresh as of 2 days, this was happening on windows 8.1 also, but the input lag wasn't as major, but still there.

[Gould-Digger]

Specs:

Ram: 8gb Kingston 1333

CPU: i3-2100

GFX: MSI GTX 760

How old are these components? Also just out of interest what PSU and Motherboard do you have?

[ItsGinger35]

The i3 might... might... be bottlenecking the 760. Also maybe the RAM cuz it's at 1333MHz, but I'm not sure. Try reconnecting the GPU to he PCI-e slot. Keep me updated if that helps

[PineappleHolidays]

GPU temps ?

[Leonard]

Have you ever tried Nvidia Inspector to set a game profile to your game and see what  result you get?

[PineappleHolidays]

The i3 might... might... be bottlenecking the 760. Also maybe the RAM cuz it's at 1333MHz, but I'm not sure. Try reconnecting the GPU to he PCI-e slot. Keep me updated if that helps

In cs:go you shouldn't just loose 60fps randomly

[Rampiks]

tried opening the PC and cleaning out dust?

[Meestagibbon]

How old are these components? Also just out of interest what PSU and Motherboard do you have?

cpu is approaching 4 years, nothing has changed since the FPS drops hardware wise.

Motherboard is an ASRock B75 Pro3m

PSU is a Rocketfish 600w Modular.

[Meestagibbon]

GPU temps ?

Well under 50 all of the time, CS:GO is CPU intensive, I gained 15 fps maybe from switching to 760 over 550 ti.

[Meestagibbon]

tried opening the PC and cleaning out dust?

PC is open almost all of the time, dont ever let it get dirty.

[Meestagibbon]

Have you ever tried Nvidia Inspector to set a game profile to your game and see what  result you get?

I use the lowest settings all of the time, I've tried 1024x768 with black bars, no fps gain.

[fracking4oil]

Perhaps you fiddled with Nvidia control panel?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Is it dying? look for a heartbeat. it should beat about 3,100,000,000 times a second.

[Meestagibbon]

Perhaps you fiddled with Nvidia control panel?

just to turn off as much as possible besides anything that provided performance benefit

[Meestagibbon]

Is it dying? look for a heartbeat. it should beat about 3,100,000,000 times a second.

Could the human brain decypher a difference, if it was off by only one or two beats? That is the real question

[Gould-Digger]

Hmm Think it may be software rather than hardware. Are you launching the game via steam? If so...

 

-Right click the game in your steam library

-Click properties

-Click set launch options

-Type in the following                          -novid -nod3d9ex -threads 4

 

Please note the 4 represents your cpus threads. (Taken from your specs)

 

-Click ok, then close the properties window.

-Start game and let me know if this has improved anything.

[Meestagibbon]

Hmm Think it may be software rather than hardware. Are you launching the game via steam? If so...

 

-Right click the game in your steam library

-Click properties

-Click set launch options

-Type in the following                          -novid -nod3d9ex -threads 4

 

Please note the 4 represents your cpus threads. (Taken from your specs)

 

-Click ok, then close the properties window.

-Start game and let me know if this has improved anything.

Current launch options:  -useforcedmparms -noforcemparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd -freq 120 -noaafonts -novid -high -threads 4 -console -nojoy -nod3d9ex +mat_queue_mode 2 +mat_vignette_enable 0 -tickrate 128

[Lanx]

Have you been in "new"/suspicious websites recently? That big performance hit can easily be explained by some types of malware especialy bitcoin miners. Some of them don't just go away with a regular disk format, you'll need to use some specific tools to remove it (if it proves to be the case). Put your game settings as low as you can and use gpu-z to check the GPU load. If it's always at 98%+ load then you probably have a bitcoin miner or something similar. You can also try to install Windows on another hardrive that you haven't used in your system yet to see if the problem goes away.

[Meestagibbon]

Have you been in "new"/suspicious websites recently? That big performance hit can easily be explained by some types of malware especialy bitcoin miners. Some of them don't just go away with a regular disk format, you'll need to use some specific tools to remove it (if it proves to be the case). Put your game settings as low as you can and use gpu-z to check the GPU load. If it's always at 98%+ load then you probably have a bitcoin miner or something similar. You can also try to install Windows on another hardrive that you haven't used in your system yet to see if the problem goes away.

My antivirus usually catches those sites but thank you for suggesting that, never though of it, I'll look into it.

[Meestagibbon]

EDIT: Just incase! If anyone was curious, I've heavily tweaked windows since installation, turned off every single possible service I could find that's not in use. I even use the windows classic theme and I have all of the nice look features turned off. Don't know if thats a factor but I figured I'd add that in.

[Lanx]

EDIT: Just incase! If anyone was curious, I've heavily tweaked windows since installation, turned off every single possible service I could find that's not in use. I even use the windows classic theme and I have all of the nice look features turned off. Don't know if thats a factor but I figured I'd add that in.

 

Careful with those services and regedit tweaks. Even if they look harmless they can really make the system crash and malfunction in the long run and most of them aren't even worth the risk (excluding maybe some of the tweaks for SSD's like turning off indexing, and the basic visual ones like turning off animations and themes). Just to make sure none of those "tweaks" are the problem, try to test the system as close as "default" as you can.

[SteveGrabowski0]

tried opening the PC and cleaning out dust?

 

Haha, I had a friend come to me telling me his PC was dying and he was ready for me to build him a new system. I opened it up and the cpu fan, heatsink, and GPU fans were caked in dust. I took it out in my back yard and sprayed it down with my compressor and the system was running great again. I recommended a $20 set of filters for fixing his PC (it was like a $1500 system so I knew he didn't need to replace it after only two years).

[ItsGinger35]

In cs:go you shouldn't just loose 60fps randomly

I know

[Meestagibbon]

Careful with those services and regedit tweaks. Even if they look harmless they can really make the system crash and malfunction in the long run and most of them aren't even worth the risk (excluding maybe some of the tweaks for SSD's like turning off indexing, and the basic visual ones like turning off animations and themes). Just to make sure none of those "tweaks" are the problem, try to test the system as close as "default" as you can.

All I've turned off is visual effects and windows features such as IE, tablet supports and things like that. Nothing heavy.