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So lately I've been having some performance issues with my PC, frame rate drops, crashes, and my PC has just blackscreened rather frequently. I am trying to get to the bottom of this.
First things first, I built this PC in December 2022, my specs are as follows
Intel I7-12700K 12th gen
Nvidia RTX 3080 TI 12gb Vram (Zotac Gaming)
32Gb (4x8gb) G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4 3200
MAG B660 Tomahawk DDR4
1 & 2 TB NVME Samsung 970 Evo
3 & 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
3 Monitors (don't know if this puts any relevant stress on the machine?)
At the time this wasn't a bad build and I figured it would perform quite well for the years to come. However, I started running into random blackscreens when playing games from time to time. My PC will completely blackscreen, all the fans stay running, and I can hear audio for a few moments after, but the only way to fix it is by manually killing the power with the button on the case.
Last night I was streaming on Twitch while playing Escape from Tarkov on Lighthouse, and I could not seem to get above 45 FPS, all while my Twitch stream was lagging and glitching. My OBS was saying "Encoder overloaded". I am confused about whether this is a legitimate bottleneck of my components in my PC. Or if there is something wrong with my computer. I have also had very bad FPS overall in World of Warcraft while in major cities.
I started doing some digging and thought this might be faulty RAM, I had pulled the RAM from my previous machine, so I tested it with memtest86 and found nothing pointing to faulty RAM. I then discovered that the AIO cooler I used in my build has a common memory leak associated with the program used to control the RGB. NZXT CAM. So I would completely reboot my PC every few days or go into Resource Monitor and kill the program. This may have been the cause but I am unable to determine for sure as I cannot replicate the crash
Then I had heard about the issues related to intel CPUs and I thought, well maybe that's my issue, maybe my CPU is dying, so I ran Cinebench R23, but this didn't conclude anything was particularly wrong with my CPU. (MC: 20878 SC: 1739). I also ran Unigine Superposition
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With the black screening aside; am I just asking too much of My PC? or is there potentially some degradation of the parts I have? I have ran Virus and Malware scans rigorously through all drives with Malwarebytes, I have monitored RAM usage and CPU performance through the task manager and resource monitor, and terminated 3rd party programs and startup programs that aren't needed.
any advice is appreciated, thanks!
