Whoever's hardware is causing the issue.
Whoever's hardware is causing the issue.
Check if your GPU or another component is slowing down texture loading in FPS games after startup. Your setup includes a high-end CPU, decent RAM, a powerful GPU, and solid storage, but the issue might lie elsewhere—like driver delays, background processes, or insufficient memory bandwidth.
That sounds like an CPU related issue. But I would strongly recommend you to sell the two 6600xt's and buy a stronger GPU, cross fire is basically dead by now
It seems like this might be a RAM problem since it requires real-time loading without buffering and lacks available space. Could you share what games you're running and your current RAM usage when under stress? Also, what resolution are you using—do you typically play at 1080p or lower?
Yeah, that makes sense. The system has been running for a while and likely has a lot of software loaded, which could use 4-6GB of RAM even when idle. Possibly it's using more memory if he's playing recent FPS games and relying on his SSD. It really depends on how the troubleshooting goes.