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All games running at lower fps than usual
I recently acquired a PC from a friend, albeit its not a monster rig but is enough to play some games on a lower setting.
The spec is
AMD A6-3650 CPU
ASROCK A75M-HVS Motherboard
8gb RAM
Integrated Radeon HD 6530D Graphics
Windows 7 64bit Home edition
The story goes, I got the PC off my friend and installed a few games such as Batman Arkham City, DOTA 2, CS:GO and to be fair was getting around 30fps in all of them in medium settings for months which is good enough for me.
Suddenly I started getting random blue screen errors with a "clock interrupt" message or freeze with a buzzing noise from the speakers. I messed round for ages, changing settings, uninstalling software , etc only to have no luck. I decided the easiest way to sort this out and quickest would be a windows reinstall and put all the exact same drivers I had when it was working. I went ahead with the whole mission of a full clean reinstall. Got steam on there and downloaded batman, I would normally get around 29fps in the benchmark in batman, but know can only receive 12-15 if I'm lucky. DOTA wont go above 17fps all of a sudden on any setting and where the title screen would be over 100 or so it now sits on 30fps. I once again messed around for ages and got so fed up I decided I must have done something wrong and done another reinstall of Windows. Once again I am still receiving the same problem, nearly every game is now running at a much lower fps than it used for no reason I can see.
Hardware wise, I have swapped several ram sticks which I know work and still have the same problem. I have flashed the bios to the latest one, swapped PSU's and even reseated the motherboard. I have HW monitor everything is running extremely cool and is not overheating, I have the latest drivers and updates for windows. Also unfortunately I had a freeze whilst in the bios also once recently so am hoping its not the motherboard,. But would a motherboard just run games slower rather than just crash or something?
Any ideas would be welcome? , apart from gaming the PC seems to run fine and doesn't crash or freeze.
thanks