Windows 10 stutter/lockup for a second or two.

[akb8812]

So I've noticed recently that my PC is stuttering or locking up for like a second or two. Most often when I open a new program or something like that. I have not seen it in games yet.

I have 2700x overclocked to  4.1 at 1.265 volts on C6H motherboard and 3200Mhz RAM from G.Skill. I've been playing around with overclockign the ram but this started before I did that. I'm on the latest 1809 Windows 10 build with all the latest drivers and the newest BIOS.

Could it be the overclock not being stable? Which would be weird cause i'm not seeing this in games at all, at least not so far. Maybe it's the problematic 1809 version of Windows 10?

[RobbinM]

I guess you're running windows on a hard drive, not a SSD?

[Rainverm38]

2 minutes ago, RobbinM said:

I guess you're running windows on a hard drive, not a SSD?

If that's the case I would recommend getting an SSD you can get them relatively cheap now days. They're in my opinion, required in a computer now days.

[RobbinM]

If you're on a hard drive, defragment it. And look to upgrade to an SSD as the kind sir above noted.

If you're not on a hard drive well then probably your overclock isn't stable.

If there are Samsung B-die chips on that G-skill kit I recommend looking up ALL the timings (including secondary and tertiary) from a faster G-skill kit and copying them, mostly it works. Even the 4000 Mhz ones.

[akb8812]

No, I'm running Windows off a NVME SSD drive. My system is a SSD only system.

 

Using this kit and I've been happy with it. Been playing with using the pre configured DRAM OC profiles built into the BIOS. Im pretty sure this started before I did that, so that leaves the CPU overclock but I'm still having doubts about that since I've yet to encounter this in gaming.

https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c14d-16gfx