I recently changed from a 280x to the 1060 gfx card posted in the pic below. I also changed from a stock fan cooler to the h100i v2 liquid cooler. I got a new case as well, so I pretty much had to rebuild my computer. I'm not new to building computers, but I'm curious to know if I did something wrong. I'm not sure why, but my computer seems to be underperforming as it will lock up for a couple seconds pretty frequently. I use to be able to open 2 instances of runescape, spotify, battle.net (client) and have pretty much any amount of tabs I wanted in chrome (20 to give a number if that's helpful), and my computer would run everything smoothly. Now if I open 2 instances of RS, the clients run at very low FPS (like 10-15) if it isn't selected, where that use to not be a problem. In addition, my computer will lock up for a couple seconds every like 3-5 minutes. My computer shouldn't be having any issues running runescape of all things. I've tried playing a couple other games like Overwatch and Diablo and they run fine if there isn't to much else running, but I am not sure what is causing the sudden skips.

I'm not gonna lie, I am pretty noobish when it comes to drivers. I am like 99% sure I installed the correct drivers for my gfx card, but maybe I am missing something? If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it a lot.



e/ I just noticed my RAM is clocking at like 668 MHz on the Speccy s/s... I can't remember what I bought it at but I know it was > 2000. Any ideas on how to correct that?

e2/ Apparently I can troubleshoot a lot more than I thought... pretty sure it's my memory.



Any idea how to correct this? I didn't realize I had them in slots 2 and 4 on my computer (this was my first build and wasn't totally sure on which was 1 and 3 vs 2 and 4), so do I need to correct that? I hadn't really seen that as an issue previously.

This post was edited by Barcelona1011 on Dec 10 2017 02:58pm

Locking up is more towards the drives/OS. Did you DDU the AMD drivers before installing nvidia?

Oh I didn't - should I do that to both sets of drivers and reinstall completely?
e/ honestly been considering just reformatting my OS SSD, would now be a good time to do that? lol

This post was edited by Barcelona1011 on Dec 10 2017 04:12pm

I would suggest doing ddu and trying to eliminate the variable. Of clashing drivers. But if it's still going on then I would say just reformat your OS drive. Memory shouldn't cause a freeze

Ok thanks for the information!

Always ddu so u can clean install new drivers,
As for memory, go into bios and enable xmp to get u correct speeds

Memory can cause a freeze. I've had it happen from just a micro-bit of dust in the RAM slots.

Been a while. So I did all the DDU stuff and it didn't fix my problem. I decided I should probably just reset windows 10 or whatever. So I did that ONLY on my c drive, but now my computer is viewing my 1tb hdd as having only 465gb capacity. Lost a lot more than I planned on losing, but thankfully I backed it all up just to be safe. Any ideas on how to correct this issue?



If I need to just reformat that drive, that's OK. But was wondering if there were any other solutions.

Nvm. I'm an idiot. When reinstalling the OS, it reassigned the drives.

What is the make and model of your power supply?

You are starting to get a lot of hardware in there. It may be that w/e power supply used to be enough...no longer is?