Hey everyone! I recently built a new PC for my wife, after successfully building one in the past. She wanted something compact, so I picked the following parts: an Asus PRIME RTX 5080 GPU, an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, an ASUS ROG STRIX B850-I AM5 motherboard, G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 64GB DDR5 RAM, a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD, a Thermaltake TH280 V2 Ultra cooler, and a Corsair SF1000 PSU in a Thermaltake TR100 Mini ITX case. I followed a YouTube tutorial, but when I started it up, I encountered a "fTPM/PSP NV corrupted" error. After some BIOS updates, everything seemed smoother until I installed Windows. Now, the performance is laggy — my mouse is choppy and there are issues with colors fading or animations stuttering. Could this be a setup issue, a BIOS flaw, or something else? Thanks for any help!
2 Answers
First off, check the temperatures of your components. If they’re running too hot, it could throttle performance. Just to mention, the cooler's monitor read 31°C for the CPU and BIOS listed it at 36°C, which sounds okay, but keep an eye on your GPU temperature as well. You might not have the right monitoring software yet since you're waiting on the drivers.
I would suggest checking if you’ve installed the Nvidia drivers. During the first boot of Windows, it defaults to using the integrated GPU, which can definitely lead to that choppy experience you’re seeing. Once you install the Nvidia driver, it should switch your display to the dedicated GPU, and that might fix a lot of your performance issues.
Thanks! I didn’t install those yet since my last setup was smooth without it. I’ll prioritize that in the morning!