In Progress My PC is underperforming in games and I have no idea why.

Let’s get all the hardware and software info of your system.
No personal data is published and everything shown is safe.

1) Download Speccy by Piriform.
In Speccy, click File > Publish Snapshot > Copy to Clipboard > Close.
Paste that link into your post. Is Speccy safe?

2) Download GetSystemInfo by Kaspersky.
In GSI, click Start. (takes about 10mins)
It makes a ZIP file on your desktop, drag that to their GSI Parser site.
Once analysed, paste the newly created URL into your post.

3) Download MiniToolBox by Farbar.
In MTB, tick List Installed Programs, click Go then close the program.
A file MTB.txt is created in the same folder, attach that to your post.

4) No software can interrogate the Power Supply Unit so list the make/model of the PSU.

5) Go to www.speedtest.net and screenshot your network speeds.


Let's get the ball rolling with some checks and cleanups.

Try these from an elevated command prompt;
- chkdsk c: /r
- sfc /scannow
- dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
- dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase

Cleanup suggestions;
* CCleaner or Glary Disk Cleaner

Note: when running CCleaner, only run the Custom Clean, not the Health Check, or Registry clean, or Driver Updater features. When installing, be sure to check all pre-selected options carefully and not simply allow it to use default suggestions. It may offer to install AVG Anti-virus, skip this. It will also add a Smart Cleaning process to Windows Startup and a couple of tasks to Task Scheduler – these can be disabled from within CCleaner.

In CCleaner;

• click Custom Clean > Run CCleaner
• after that, go to Tools > Startup
  • in the Windows, Scheduled Tasks, and Services tabs, double click the entries to disable

Thanks for gathering all that info.

From the reports;

• try connecting using the ethernet port rather than the wifi adapter.
• while not yet critical, C:\ drive is down to 14% free space. Get WizTree to find out where the space has gone.
• the 1TB Western Digital drive seems to be unused and not assigned a drive letter.
• the PSU, while good wattage, is only Bronze certified. Your M1 model couldn't be found here but the P1 model is ranked Tier C - Low End.
• your BIOS is F2, latest seems to be F9. The F8 release talks about a fix to the RTX3060 cards, so while not yours, they are in the same family.

In CCleaner, while disabling all the Startup programs won't cause any harm, some may be nice to keep.
Same for the Scheduled Tasks and Windows Services tabs.
This is your opportunity to investigate what is running on your rig and remove what you deem fit as unnecessary.

As to the elevated command, right click the Start button, click Run, type in cmd and press Ctrl+Shift and click Run.
Hit Yes to "allow this app..."
Now you can copy/paste each of those 4 commands, in turn, and see if they find issues.

I suggest using this tool to regain privacy and turn off unneeded settings.
https://github.com/builtbybel/Winpilot/releases/download/2024.6.1/Winpilot.zip

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Reset your Hosts file.

1. Click here to download RstHosts v2.0\
2. Save the file to your desktop.
3. Right Click and Run as Administrator.
4. Click on Restaurer, then click OK at the prompt.
5. This will restore the default host file.

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Open the case and re-seat everything, while you are in there clean any dust that may be accumulated.

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Download DDU follow all directions to remove the Nvidia drivers.
Re-install Nvidia drivers with this tool, NVCleaninstall. Uncheck everything except the drivers.

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Uninstall anything you are not using. GeekUninstaller.

O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want. Freeware.

Disable anything you feel that is not needed from start up. AutoRunOrganizer

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Disable hibernation and turn power plan to balanced. You can do that with these two commands in elevated command prompt.

powercfg.exe /setactive 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
powercfg -hibernate off

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Find the best DNS server for your machine.

How to find the best DNS server for my computer.

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Use Kill Em All -- This will close all non windows programs and running processes non essential to your computer. Note: This will close your browser, so save anything if needed prior to running. Use this tool after following the steps above, use this tool prior to starting your game,
Consider it a game booster.

When gaming, or doing anything that needs intensive internet access, ethernet is always better than wireless.
Yes, wifi has come a long way but I'm yet to see it be better than ethernet.
If it isn't too much trouble, it would be good to relocate the rig to where you have the modem and connect directly to it. That will at least prove or disprove if your wifi is the cause.

As to PSU recommendation, that's easy. Any power supply certified 80+ Gold (at least) and with at least a 7 year warranty (prefer 10), and you can’t go wrong.
For example, ThermalTake ToughPower GF1 or GF3 ranges, Cooler Master, Antec, Corsair RM series (just to get you started).

With the BIOS, the update process varies between motherboards. But the theory is;

• go to Gigabyte's support website, and for your model of mobo, download the latest BIOS version
• unzip the downloaded file and copy the files to a USB stick
• leave the stick in and reboot the PC
• as it boots, hit the key to get into BIOS, usually F2, Del, or F10
• find Q-Flash and select the BIOS update file on the USB stick
• the update can take a few minutes and the PC should restart

If that all seems too hard or you can't find Q-Flash, they also provide a Windows based update program called @BIOS. Haven't used it for ages but from memory you run it and it'll find the latest version and update the BIOS for you, all within Windows.