I am in the process of building a new gaming PC. I have these components:

Gigabyte Z370 Aorus 7 Motherboard I7 8700K 16gb 3200 Corsair RGB ram Samsung 970 Evo 1TB nvme drive Corsair 650w power supply Gigabyte RTX 2080 OC graphics

I have installed windows 10 enterprise, downloaded the latest windows updates (including the anniversary update from october I believe). I did a quick benchmark using Passmark, and it got a really good score (top 98th percentile). So I start to install things like steam, RGB controller etc. After maybe an hour of use, the network connection gets slower to the point where it doesnt load any websites. Then I notice that opening apps takes a long time. Then the start menu takes more than a few seconds. Then the mouse starts locking up, and eventually the whole thing just locks up. CPU/RAM/HDD seem to be running fine in task manager. No spikes in performance. Everything is running cool. I cannot see any errors in the event viewer (Except a Distributed COM error). Even restarting takes over 5 minutes to complete!

I have tried starting again from scratch, reformatting the M2 drive, reinstalling windows. The same thing happens after a while.

The only odd thing I have noticed is that the Lan1 intel port is not working. Its not recognized when I try and install the intel Lan driver that is on the gigabyte website. So I am using the Killer Lan driver on the Lan2 port. Its odd that the first port doesnt light up when it gets an ethernet cable.

So any pointers would be really helpful! Thanks!

I am in the process of building a new gaming PC. I have these components:

Gigabyte Z370 Aorus 7 Motherboard I7 8700K 16gb 3200 Corsair RGB ram Samsung 970 Evo 1TB nvme drive Corsair 650w power supply Gigabyte RTX 2080 OC graphics

I have installed windows 10 enterprise, downloaded the latest windows updates (including the anniversary update from october I believe). I did a quick benchmark using Passmark, and it got a really good score (top 98th percentile).

So I start to install things like steam, RGB controller etc. After maybe an hour of use, the network connection gets slower to the point where it doesn't load any websites. Then I notice that opening apps takes a long time. Then the start menu takes more than a few seconds. Then the mouse starts locking up, and eventually the whole thing just locks up. Even restarting takes over 5 minutes to complete!

CPU/RAM/HDD seem to be running fine in task manager. No spikes in performance. Everything is running cool. I cannot see any errors in the event viewer (Except a Distributed COM error). The only odd thing I have noticed is that the Lan1 intel port is not working. Its not recognized when I try and install the intel Lan driver that is on the gigabyte website. So I am using the Killer Lan driver on the Lan2 port. Its odd that the first port doesnt light up when it gets an ethernet cable.

I have tried starting again from scratch, reformatting the M2 drive, reinstalling windows. The same thing happens after a while.

So any pointers would be really helpful! Thanks!