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[–] ScorpioGlitch 2 points (+2|-0)

It's a couple of things.

  1. Gigabyte doesn't isolate their north/south bridges and USB buses like they should.

  2. Your RAM latency is high. It's a 10, you should be running 9 or better on a rig like this.

  3. The biggest thing is your hard drive. 5400 RPM is horrid.

  4. Your video card is 2 gig. If you're doing any gaming, you should have absolutely no less than 16 to 32 gig. Higher is better

Wait, 32 gigs of vram??! Because that's a lot of vram!

[–] ScorpioGlitch 1 points (+1|-0)

Sapphire - Radeon R7 350 2 GB Video Card

That's a PCIE 3.0 card. It uses GDDR5 which is good but that's far too little if you're doing anything except checking email, surfing phuks, and maybe youtube.

I was wondering if my video card was at fault. Any recommendations for a budget card that will play games that are a few years old with little difficulty?

[–] Polsaker 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

you should have absolutely no less than 16 to 32 gig

You don't need that much unless you're gaming at really high res and maxing the fuck out of every game's video settings. For me a RX 580 with 8 gigs DDR5 has ben wayy more than enough

[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0)

Also, what's your OS? If you're running Windows 10, that sucks down resources like an alcoholic on New Year's Eve. You might consider Windows 8.1 as an "upgrade" if you want to squeeze as much power out of your resources as you can since 8.1 is lighter than 10.

It is windows 10. I'm admittedly not great on the software side of things.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 1 points (+1|-0)

This is something I keep hearing repeatedly from people who have windows 10:

It's just too slow.

or

It ran great before windows 10.

I mean, if you're looking for a performance upgrade, the latest and greatest seldom is. You have the minimum requirements met for windows 10 but I've seen computers that should be just fine being as slow as snot when 10 was put on there.

Now that's not to say that this is absolutely your problem. I'm just sharing what I have observed. It's just something to keep in mind. Newer OSs don't tend to do as well on budget builds.