R3 Gradual Slowdown

Hey.

I've bought this R3 about 2 months ago-- and recently I've been noticing that some games just don't run as well as they did when I first bought it-- and the difference is pretty noticeable. I always make sure my vents are clear, I haven't installed or downloaded a lot of bloatware, and I know that I don't have a virus.

The system is set to defrag every week-- is there anything else I'm missing? Some vital step to keeping my computer lightning fast?

Thanks in advance!

 

How much of a decrease? 5 fps? 20 fps?

Check temperatures and make sure there's no throttling.

Another place to check is the system power settings; make sure it set to Balanced or High Performance.

If they are STEAM games, try a local-file defrag under game properties


Keep us updated.

 

have you tried reinstalling your drivers or system restored to a previous state?

Like alexmuw said, another thing that you should look at are your GPU temps. The stock thermal paste job is terrible. Plus i've heard of the heatsink coming loose on some laptops leading to bad contact between the heatsink and GPU die. So your GPu overheats and pulls back. Download a utility like GPuz and log your temps while you play a game and see what your temps are

 

Did you run any benchmarks when you first got your system to now compare objectively?

Glary utilities and ccleaner programs are free reg cleaners.

Check msconfig to see what's loading.

 

When was your laptop manufactored?

 

run ccleaner.

 

Sorry, been out of town. I will answer the questions in the order they were posed:

1. It varies from game to game. I used to get 70-80 FPS in SC 2 during late macro stages, now I only get 30-40. On Minecraft I used to get at least 100 FPS all the time, now it's more like 50-60. I realize that this is still very playable, but if it continues to degenerate, eventually it will reach a point where it will not be.

2. Attached is the GPU-Z Log from a game of Starcraft. I'm concerned it never shows fan speeds above 30%. Is this Normal?

3. It' on high performance, and they are not steam games.

4. I reinstalled most of my drivers, but I have not restored to a previous state.

5. When I first purchased the system 3DMark 11 reported about P3900. I ran it twice today. The first time returned me P1646. However the second time it returned P3723. The time interval between the 2 tests was a matter of seconds, and I did not alter the computer in any way.

6. The computer was made in early August.

 

your GPuz log looks ok. You're definitely not overheating. Don't worry about the 30%, mine shows the same thing.

Have you tried running CCCleaner and driversweeper?

 

what processes do you have running -- can you dump your process list?

 

I did run ccleaner, but I haven't used driversweeper yet.

Where can I find my process list?

 

Edit: multiple post.

 

Task Manager -> Processes tab.

Sounds like GPU throttling, for one reason or another. I can't think of another reason for such a big variation in results.

Download MSI Afterburner and leave it running while you're playing games. It also has an FPS counter function, so turn that on (you need to check in the settings, and set framerate to be used in the OSD), when you start noticing problems, have a look at the stats and see what that tells you. Probably best to post a shot of that here for the rest of us to have a look.

Hope that helps...