Need Some PC Help

[Yachty]

Hi guy ive been having some pc problems. Every 1-2 minutes my pc will completly freeze for ~10 seconds making all games unplayable. Also major performance issues recently. My Specs are: GTX 970, i5-4690k. any ideas?

 

 

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Yachty said:

Hi guy ive been having some pc problems. Every 1-2 minutes my pc will completly freeze for ~10 seconds making all games unplayable. Also major performance issues recently. My Specs are: GTX 970, i5-4690k. any ideas?

 

 

If reinstall windows doesn't fix it, might be a PSU issue, possibly a hard drive issue

[AniJan]

Same thing happened to me.

 

Just reset Windows. Literally.

And have some back-up drives or whatever.

The problem is probably the hard drive, CPU(not sure), or something. lol

[MattProtatoFry]

The freezing is most probable from the windows software so I would recommend keeping everything you'll like to keep on a flash drive or backup drive and reset completely. If you have any further problems- it could be some startup programs maliciously affecting your performance or just straight a power supply "choke"

[Alkali A]

First thing you could do is restart your computer, there might be a temp file or something that is messing with your normal computer usage; which would be fixed by resetting.

 

Second thing you could do if the problem persists is scan your computer with anti-malware/virus software and/or bloatware removing software. It's possible you have a virus or a bunch of bloatware that messing with junk.

 

Third thing that I can think of is checking your drivers, you didn't really mention if it was just your video image that was freezing and unplayable, or if your whole computer's processing slowed down (would it continue to render something, or continue your previous action when it freezes?), but you could have outdated gpu drivers that just need to be updated.

 

At this point you'd know that your computer doesn't have bloatware, old drivers, viruses, or corrupted temp files; so the only thing left messed up would either be your physical hardware, such as your cpu, gpu, or hard drive, or even RAM (who knows), or something in operating system's files has gotten messed up to the point that you can't find it, and might need to get a clean re-installation of your OS.

 

Taking everything I say with a grain of salt; I am no expert by any means, I'm just trying to help as best I can, and good luck fixing your computer!