u/themrpickpro

Just to be clear, It's possible that this is all just a coincidence and my SSD is just getting old and on its way out, I'm just wondering if any of you have heard of cases like this and there may be something else going on.

I built my PC with a i3-12100f for several years now, I use Adata legend 710 2Tb NVMe as boot and store most of my games in it. It was doing okay in terms of being able to load and install games at moderate paces (never experienced super expensive SSDs so can't compare). My CPU was struggling with certain games so I decided to upgrade to i5 12400f. Everyone told me that BIOS updates are unnecessary since they're the same generation so I didn't update. I can say that overall FPS of video games has improved but something strange happened. Any time I have to install a game my PC starts to stutter and freeze uncontrollably. In performance CPU and RAM seem fine but Disk shoots up to 100% with terrible read and write speeds (sometimes drops below 1 MB/s). In some cases games have started to perform worse. Perhaps more FPS but noticably more stuttering. I was capable of running No Hesi (a mod for Assetto Corsa), now it's absolutely unplayable. I understand that No Hesi is exceptionally resource intensive, but this still shouldn't happen. Should I update BIOS? CrystalDiskInfo says everything is fine more or less. Anything else could be happening?

Just to be clear, It's possible that this is all just a coincidence and my SSD is just getting old and on its way out, I'm just wondering if any of you have heard of cases like this and there may be something else going on.

I built my PC with a i3-12100f for several years now, I use Adata legend 710 2Tb NVMe as boot and store most of my games in it. It was doing okay in terms of being able to load and install games at moderate paces (never experienced super expensive SSDs so can't compare). My CPU was struggling with certain games so I decided to upgrade to i5 12400f. Everyone told me that BIOS updates are unnecessary since they're the same generation so I didn't update. I can say that overall FPS of video games has improved but something strange happened. Any time I have to install a game my PC starts to stutter and freeze uncontrollably. In performance CPU and RAM seem fine but Disk shoots up to 100% with terrible read and write speeds (sometimes drops below 1 MB/s). In some cases games have started to perform worse. Perhaps more FPS but noticably more stuttering. I was capable of running No Hesi (a mod for Assetto Corsa), now it's absolutely unplayable. I understand that No Hesi is exceptionally resource intensive, but this still shouldn't happen. Should I update BIOS? CrystalDiskInfo says everything is fine more or less. Anything else could be happening?

VR provides a unique challenge to using iron sights that monitor players don't have to deal with. It felt so cool having to learn each of the unique iron sights for every new gun you unlock. Now that's completely gone. Just slap on the red dot and you're good. Perhaps the developers could find a way to make using iron sights beneficial, like an XP boost or something?

I wanted to do authentic sniping and laid down on the ground, then fell asleep. Didn't get killed the whole match, thanks guys. Was quite chill to be honest, would do it again,

I've seen some videos on CPU upgrading and BIOS updating and how making a mistake can cause damage, so I'm just wondering what are some of the main things to look out for when making such an upgrade?