Persistent input lag. Desync, graphical blurriness
Posted: 05 Jan 2025, 02:57
Ever since building my first PC, now onto my 3rd, which I poured 3000$ into, ive faced persistent issues which have existed across all builds, including a prebuilt I got for comparison. All of them had the same symptoms, which includes input lag that gets worse over time after startup, graphical artifacts like aliasing, flickering textures, moving textures, blurriness especially when moving, desync in online games, and hit reg issues occasionally.
Now, at this point I had also replaced peripherals and monitor several times, formatted my PC several times, played with settings and optimizing everything, all to no avail. I began to realize that from a logical standpoint, the issue has to be caused by something beyond the PC itself or the peripherals. It was either some internet issue or electric. Now for the internet ive monitored packets, ping, jitter, download and upload speed and they all seem to be excellent, so that leaves me with the issue by deduction being in the realm of electricity.
Ive suspected for a while that there might be an electric issue in the house as the house I live in had not been inspected in 30 years before I was even born. Also lights in kitchen go out frequently and i observed my dad replacing lightbulbs in kitchen around 5 times in a single year. I brought an electrician who found that the ground rod was disconnected from the main copper cable which he reconnected it. And he wrote in his report that the main service panel was in bad condition with frayed, damaged or old wires that needed to be replaced.
I was quoted around 8,000$ usd to fix these and my dad basically said F no, and refuses to fix this. So im left wondering if its even worth contemplating paying this much for the *maybe* or possibility that this will fix my issues. What do you guys think? Am I crazy for considering electrical issues as being a cause? Ive asked IT centers near me like computer repair shops and at least 1 person has told me they dont believe electricity is the cause.
I dont know what to believe and I dont know much about electricity to comment on what could be wrong. Voltages with a multimeter read normal from H/N and N/G and also H/G but then again theres more to electricity than just outlet readings.
Now, at this point I had also replaced peripherals and monitor several times, formatted my PC several times, played with settings and optimizing everything, all to no avail. I began to realize that from a logical standpoint, the issue has to be caused by something beyond the PC itself or the peripherals. It was either some internet issue or electric. Now for the internet ive monitored packets, ping, jitter, download and upload speed and they all seem to be excellent, so that leaves me with the issue by deduction being in the realm of electricity.
Ive suspected for a while that there might be an electric issue in the house as the house I live in had not been inspected in 30 years before I was even born. Also lights in kitchen go out frequently and i observed my dad replacing lightbulbs in kitchen around 5 times in a single year. I brought an electrician who found that the ground rod was disconnected from the main copper cable which he reconnected it. And he wrote in his report that the main service panel was in bad condition with frayed, damaged or old wires that needed to be replaced.
I was quoted around 8,000$ usd to fix these and my dad basically said F no, and refuses to fix this. So im left wondering if its even worth contemplating paying this much for the *maybe* or possibility that this will fix my issues. What do you guys think? Am I crazy for considering electrical issues as being a cause? Ive asked IT centers near me like computer repair shops and at least 1 person has told me they dont believe electricity is the cause.
I dont know what to believe and I dont know much about electricity to comment on what could be wrong. Voltages with a multimeter read normal from H/N and N/G and also H/G but then again theres more to electricity than just outlet readings.