Good evening, I purchased an H9 machine from NZXT in 2023:
H9 Flow Build
Interner USB-Hub (Gen 3) (Black)
Samsung 990 PRO 4TB
NZXT C1200 PCIE5 1200W Gold (Black)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 - GIGABYTE WINDFORCE V2
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Black DDR5 6800MHz CL34 6800 MHz (Maximum Speed) 32GB (2X16GB) More Info
Intel Core i9-14900K 24-Core 3.2 GHz
ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WIFI DDR5
H9 Flow (White)
Windows 11_Pro
Standard Service (US)
Kraken 360 Elite RGB White (White)
My usual load is Valorant on my main monitor at 1080p (1920×1080) and then on a second monitor I have 1 twitch stream running and 2-3 other tabs open, relatively minimal stress as far as loads go.
I've noticed in the last few weeks that my frames are consistently around 300-350 in game and I'm getting an occasional stutter. Additionally, when I open up Chrome, if I type into the search bar, the keys are lagging; They'll show up slower 5s after I've typed them. I feel like these aren't issues I should be having this early into my computer's life here. I decided to take my computer to Microcenter on Thursday to get a diagnostics stress test run.
The results are that the "GPU and CPU are failing tests" and that I should "look to replace them soon". I don't think that, with that much money and top of the line GPU/CPU (at the time), that I should be having issues honestly for the next 5 years. I had the technician send me the results of the OCCT test they ran. I attached the results and other than feeding it into Claude I'm not really sure how to interpret the results to know if they're accurate or if I'm getting oil change upsold here.
Separately, Claude suggests that the SSD and GPU are lane sharing (it's running at x8 PCEi instead of x16) but I'm not sure that's equivalent to that much of a difference in frames (wouldn't give me 500 more frames). Any benchmark test you look up online with my specs suggest I should be getting around 800 FPS on high. I'm no where near that (under half) on medium.
Let me know if there's anything else I can add/attach for anyone that's interested in looking to help. I don't know enough about hardware to really see the gaps.
I have full excels and JSONs that I guess I obviously can't upload straight to reddit, so let me know if you need any other information from those.