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So guys... I fixed the problem... With reinstalling Windows, which took me like an hour to do and I don't know if I should be happy or cry because of all this wasted time :D Btw the SSD was fine according to Samsung magician. I'll try to overclock this little fellow a bit and see how it performs.

Sadly memtest86 didn't find any errors. So let's hope it's the SSD, even if I can't imagine it. I will be doing some tests later this day.

Thanks for the suggestion! Should have known that the windows tool isn't capable of anything. I was surprised that they offer such function at all. I will run this memtest tomorrow during work. Any suggestions what I can use to check the SSD and my other HDD (which is only used for storage)?

Hey Guys, as you can imagine by the title, I am running a very old System and it always treated me pretty good, but this might be it. Since one week or so I experience heavy stuttering under light "load" like watching YouTube. But it's not always a normal stuttering or a freeze where even the cursor don't respond anymore. It's more like Windows not responding to anything while all applications are "on hold", but normal freezes also happen quite rarely with System catching itself after round about a minute. While investigating this Bug, I ran Cinebench R15 which provokes this behaviour and I had OpenHardwareMonitor, CPU-Z and CoreTemp on my second monitor in the background. In mids of the benchmark the System freezes and the values on those other programms stopp refreshing and I can't even open Windows start. Nothing responds, till Cinebench is done. So it seems, that the rendering still takes place while everything else is put on hold. Overclocking the CPU slightly (@3,8 ghz without any voltages) provokes this behavior to a point, where it even happens in idle, but it doesn't crash or anything. This is what I've done till now: - Of course stopped overlocking it - Checked with Aida64 what load causes the stuttering (it's the CPU) - Checked RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostic (everything's fine) - Checked Socket Pins (One was slightly of, I fixed it with nice little tools but the faulty behaviour continues) - Cleaned the CPU from every sides with Isopropanol (99,9% alcohol for cleaning) - Cleaned the RAM form every sides with Isopropanol - re-plugged every single power cable But nothing seemed to work. Here is my entire Build: Intel I5-2500k (Noctua NH-D15 for cooling) Nvidia GTX 1070 Strix OC Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3 (newest firmware) 16 gb (4x4) BallisticX Samsung Evo 860 Corsair RM 550x So, it wouldn't be a desaster to buy new stuff, but I like my good old I5-2500k and it would be awesome when I could keep this fellow running for some time.