ASUS EAH 6870 Major Lag in Windows 7

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peersy

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I am currently experiencing lag issues and low performance in windows 7. I get lag when I type, I get major lag when scrolling through web pages and I cannot view any flash content without lag. I have updated all my drivers and bios to see if that made a difference but I am still getting performance issues with Windows 7.

The power supply that I am using at this precise time is a 600w OCZ Stealth X Stream 2 as my current Power supply - Seasonic X-750 is currently getting repaired as it was D.O.A.

I do not know what is causing this lag whether it being faulty drivers or faulty hardware but it really annoying. I have kept everything on stock clocks until I get my Seasonic X-750 replaced. I don't know whether the 600w OCZ Stealth X Stream 2 is struggling with my system or not.

On my PC everything on Windows 7 works fine and is very fast with my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD apart from the annoying problems listed above. I have reinstalled Windows 7 twice then installed all the drivers but I am still getting major lag.
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My system specifications are in my sig.

I am sorry If I have not given enough detail but it is really annoying to type with lag.
 
peersy said:
I am currently experiencing lag issues and low performance in windows 7. I get lag when I type, I get major lag when scrolling through web pages and I cannot view any flash content without lag. I have updated all my drivers and bios to see if that made a difference but I am still getting performance issues with Windows 7.

The power supply that I am using at this precise time is a 600w OCZ Stealth X Stream 2 as my current Power supply - Seasonic X-750 is currently getting repaired as it was D.O.A.

I do not know what is causing this lag whether it being faulty drivers or faulty hardware but it really annoying. I have kept everything on stock clocks until I get my Seasonic X-750 replaced. I don't know whether the 600w OCZ Stealth X Stream 2 is struggling with my system or not.

On my PC everything on Windows 7 works fine and is very fast with my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD apart from the annoying problems listed above. I have reinstalled Windows 7 twice then installed all the drivers but I am still getting major lag.
sad.gif


My system specifications are in my sig.

I am sorry If I have not given enough detail but it is really annoying to type with lag.
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You need to uninstall your ATi drivers.

download driver sweeper.

use that to remove any remainder of the the drivers

reinstall Cat 10.10's and then post back dude. (you need to do all 3 steps)
 
I have tried the steps above and I am still getting the same results as before. everything seems to lag but somehow I can watch live TV on BBC Iplayer without any lag.

I have sent a technical enquiry to Asus regarding the lag I am getting. I don't know whether it is a problem with the latest drivers for my GPU.
 
peersy said:
I have tried the steps above and I am still getting the same results as before. everything seems to lag but somehow I can watch live TV on BBC Iplayer without any lag.

I have sent a technical enquiry to Asus regarding the lag I am getting. I don't know whether it is a problem with the latest drivers for my GPU.
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Have you got your old GPU to try?
 
Just installed the GPU and drivers. I am sill getting the same amount of lag although it is now not lagging when I type. I am really confused.
 
lagin?

what runnin in the background?

when you open a window does it lag when you move it?

sounds like something is usin to much CPU or GPU or both
 
It lags when I am moving windows as well. I don't know if this is related but one of my CPU cores is running at over 50% when my system is idle and when I looked in the processes in the task manager I could not find anything what was utilizing the sixth core. For some reason at idle my CPU usage never goes below 10%. I am now thinking it may be a motherboard issue.
 
If it did it with the OLD gpu aswell its your system dude, best to start with a cmos clear and one stick of ram.

The amount of ram you have seems silly btw.
 
Sorry I haven't replied sooner but I have had family problems.

I have got 16gb of ram for heavy video editing and Photoshop and a bit of gaming at the same time. I know 16gb is a bit excessive for a desktop but I hoped when buying it I might be able to game at the same time as rendering. I am still getting the same problems listed above and I have testes all of the ram individually with Memtest 86 and all four of them passed. I don't think there is a problem with the 6870 as I get exactly the same performance with an old ATI 4350 out of my HTPC. I have looked over the internet and I cannot find anyone else having the same problems that I have having atm with the lag. I run 3dmark 06 on my system and it starts out about 84 fps then on the second scent it suddenly drops to 5 fps. I don;t want to even try Vantage as I know I will get even worse results. I don't know whether it is my my Motherboard or PSU or even drivers. speed wise this AMD rig is faster than my old 775pc with a Core 2 Quad 6600 and 8gb of DDR2 but graphics wise it is not. I bought an AMD Motherboard and CPU because it was cheaper than the Intel alternative. I have not had any problems when building my old 775 rig. I am now thinking it would of been better to spend the extra £200 and stick with Intel. The drivers included on the installation disk that came with the motherboard for the on-board audio caused stuttering through optical out. as said above I am debating if there is a power issue or a Motherboard issue. I have updated the Bios on my motherboard to the latest one and updated the chip set drivers and still no improvement. I really do not know what is causing the graphics lag.

Sorry is I have posted in the wrong section as I think it may not be the GPU causing the problems that I am experiencing with this build.
 
I think this lagging is a Windows update problem. Mine was lagging terrible yesterday and in the end I had to repair Windows.

Do a rollback and then cancel any new updates. I'm pretty certain it's being caused by Windows itself.

Edit. Maybe it's not that then. Infact yesterday I also updated my bios, could have been that.
 
I have installed just the drivers for the gpu and chipset and I still get the lag. the windows updates make no difference for my pc. the only thing that I have seen happen with the windows updates is knock out the wireless on my laptop
 
Have you been on the same BIOS the whole time?

I'd try testing your components now. Start with the RAM perhaps, seems a likely target since there's so much of it! Memtest86+ will do that.
 
I think it is a problem with the motherboard as the CPU won't go below 75% on the sixth core and the on-board audio is playing up now through optical. I have tested all of the other components in one of my friends spare motherboards and everything works without a problem. I think when my Seasonic x750 failed on start-up it might of caused some sort of damage to the motherboard. I am going to speak to Asus Support and see what they suggest, Asus are usually good at replacing faulty components.
 
When I put my 470 in very strange things happened. My Patriot PS-100 decided to die. Whether it was linked to putting in the 470? I have absolutely no idea. A couple of days ago I was happilly sitting here listening to MP3s when my system froze. I shut it down and rebooted and Windows was corrupt. I ran a repair and then flashed the bios and touch wood it's been great since.

However, the bios I was running was only about a month old. So there must have been a reason for the update to be released so soon.

God bless Asus and all who sail in her. By far and away the absolute best company ever for keeping their bioses updated.
 
Many apologies for the double post, but I just clocked this.

peersy said:
Just installed the GPU and drivers. I am sill getting the same amount of lag although it is now not lagging when I type. I am really confused.
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Dude. That is 10000% identical to what was happening to me recently. I could type faster than it could appear in MSN and also in google search and pretty much everything else.

FTR I also run an SSD. Whether that has anything to do with it? I have no idea, but I just find this stunningly coincidental.
 
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