PC's sound and graphics lag in windows and in games

[Joshua_Weiss]

Hi, so sometimes the pc will start to get lag when im playing csgo or even in youtube. The sound will become distorted and slower and the frames of the pc will drop. The reported frames in-game are still fine. The mouse will become laggy as well. The problem is sometimes there and sometimes it isn't. I wont have it for a week then suddenly I cant play because it gets too laggy.

Everytime it gets laggy it gets worse and worse until it freezes (with the sound frozen as well) and eventually bluescreens.

what I've done:
reinstall windows
reinstall all drivers
reinstalled the games
run in safe mode

This had led me to think its a hardware issue. I think it is either the RAM or my HDD. most of the components are quite old in the PC.

specs:
gigabye 570 super OC
i3 530 @2.93 ghz 1156
2x2 gigs generic 1333 ram
1tb old WD hard drive

I've been struggling to fix this for ages. I cant test the Ram because the MB only accepts 2 gigs per dimm and i only have 4 gig sticks. Any help is appreciated. I've attached the HDD S.M.A.R.T analysis but cant really understand it.

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cheers

 

[PsyWulf]

I'm seeing a pretty high URE (Uncorrectable Read Errors) there,usually indication harddrive is failing,check windows event viewer for bad block errors or SATA port resets to match timing of the issues,but either way that disk is post-toasties

 

[el3venth]

I've been struggling to fix this for ages. I cant test the Ram because the MB only accepts 2 gigs per dimm and i only have 4 gig sticks. Any help is appreciated. I've attached the HDD S.M.A.R.T analysis but cant really understand it.

What kind of motherboard accepts an i5 processor and does not accept 4gig sticks? That does not sound right.

 

[Bencrisp]

That is an i3 530 socket 1156 setup if i am not mistaken.

Have you tried to run a live version of linux? (bootable version of linux on a disc)

Give that a try as it will have its own completely seperate set of drivers to rule out software issues

 

[Raatle]

Could be drvers man.. Run a prgram called dpcalt to see what your cpu latency is doing. As far as I know audio faults are not caused by ram or drive issues, usually a direct cpu fault.

 

[Joshua_Weiss]

Thanks guys, I'll check out the programmes I really hope its not the CPU. Finding a 1156 CPU is going to be hell -_-


I think installing Linux is going to be a huge deal and Linux isn't really any use to me.

 

[Bencrisp]

[MENTION=22657]Joshua_Weiss[/MENTION] Linux is going to be used to test, not to be installed. Download and burn to disc, boot up from disc and it will load OS without installing. Then you can try watch movie etc and see if you get same result. If you do then its more a hardware issue or setting for hardware in your BIOS

Try Ubuntu

 

[PJtheKILL3R]

Thanks guys, I'll check out the programmes I really hope its not the CPU. Finding a 1156 CPU is going to be hell -_-


I think installing Linux is going to be a huge deal and Linux isn't really any use to me.

CPU's are hard but boards are much harder