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I have no idea what causes the problem but in many games i have something what looks like a micro lag (sometimes screen freezes for like 1 second), BF3 runs at 20-55 fps on ultra and on high it runs at around 60+fps and frequently dropping. When playing Planetside 2 ingame fps meter shows that my cpu is having problems and causing performance drop. During using chrome everything is laggy. When i use benchmarks everything seems ok and the results are simmilar to what other people are getting but when playing games this PC is not performing as good as it should.


 


Here are my specs:


CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1090t 


Cooler - Scythe Ninja


GPU - Nvidia Geforce 760 2GB from Gigabyte


Mobo - Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H (rev 1.3)


RAM - 8GB Kingstone 1600mhz (at 1333mhz anything higher throws bluescreen)


PSU - 650 Watt


HDD - Samsung HD103UJ


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you might want to overclock that cpu if you want, maybe a slight overclock will help. But if you want to do a decent overclock with equally pair along with that graphics card you might want to get a new cooler like a Cooler Master 212 evo or something else. You could in the future save up to buy a new cpu/board.

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I have no idea what causes the problem but in many games i have something what looks like a micro lag (sometimes screen freezes for like 1 second), BF3 runs at 20-55 fps on ultra and on high it runs at around 60+fps and frequently dropping. When playing Planetside 2 ingame fps meter shows that my cpu is having problems and causing performance drop. During using chrome everything is laggy. When i use benchmarks everything seems ok and the results are simmilar to what other people are getting but when playing games this PC is not performing as good as it should.

 

Here are my specs:

CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1090t 

GPU - Nvidia Geforce 760 1GB from Gigabyte

Mobo - Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H (rev 1.3)

RAM - 8GB Kingstone 1600mhz (at 1333mhz anything higher throws bluescreen)

PSU - 650 Watt

HDD - Samsung HD103UJ

 

 

What is the part number of the memory?

 

Do you notice the hdd activity light on when the lag occurs?

 

Wired or WiFi?

 

Did this problem just start?

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Where did you find a 1GB 760?

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you might want to overclock that cpu if you want, maybe a slight overclock will help. But if you want to do a decent overclock with equally pair along with that graphics card you might want to get a new cooler like a Cooler Master 212 evo or something else. You could in the future save up to buy a new cpu/board.

 

Cooler helped to achieve better temps but overall stability is still bad, anything than 3.5ghz is not stable and even this decreases performance in game.

 

 

Where did you find a 1GB 760?

 

 

My bad, was thinking about my old 460, this 760 has 2GB

 

What is the part number of the memory?

 

Do you notice the hdd activity light on when the lag occurs?

 

Wired or WiFi?

 

Did this problem just start?

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I have no idea how to check hdd activity light. (edit:) Ok it blinks every 2-5 seconds all the time.
 
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I have this problem for around 1.5 years.
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It could be bottle necking just not. sounds like the problems I had with the bf4 beta where my cpu would hit 100% for short times and frames would drop. Check your drivers and check that the games are up to date.

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It could be bottle necking just not. sounds like the problems I had with the bf4 beta where my cpu would hit 100% for short times and frames would drop. Check your drivers and check that the games are up to date.

Drivers and games are always up to date and cpu usage is not always at 100%, it is usually around 60-70%. I need to check if i see the frames drop when it hits 100%.

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Drivers and games are always up to date and cpu usage is not always at 100%, it is usually around 60-70%. I need to check if i see the frames drop when it hits 100%.

that would be a pretty good way, also check ram usage.
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that would be a pretty good way, also check ram usage.

So CPU usage was at around 70-80% and ram usage was lower than 5GB but i noticed that sometimes HDD usage was going up to 100%. But frames dropped frequently to just around 45 (mostly + (ultra settings)at 1680x1050 resolution).

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So CPU usage was at around 70-80% and ram usage was lower than 5GB but i noticed that sometimes HDD usage was going up to 100%. But frames dropped frequently to just around 45 (mostly + (ultra settings)at 1680x1050 resolution).

 

When did you last defragment the hdd?

 

How full is the hdd?

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Any special reason for not to mention PSU brand and model? Microlagging shouldn't be caused by crappy PSU. I've had that with HDDs going bad and too low ram.

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Yes, and not only internet browsers, Chrome was only an example.

 

It does seem to me that the LAN connection could be the culprit. What part of that connection I don't know. Do any other devices experience similar behavior working on the network?

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Any special reason for not to mention PSU brand and model? Microlagging shouldn't be caused by crappy PSU. I've had that with HDDs going bad and too low ram.

 

Only reason was that i forgot, it is XFX pro 650W core edition.

 

It does seem to me that the LAN connection could be the culprit. What part of that connection I don't know. Do any other devices experience similar behavior working on the network?

 

Only this device is causing problems, and it is not lagging, it is freezing sometimes. And also I have this problems with offline applications and games.

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Check HDD smart

Also i'd check RAM... (if it isn't damaged then check what's the work voltage and I wouldn't raise freqs for it with that mobo, considers it as OC and it isn't 1600...)

 

HDD smart said: Ultra DMA CRC Error Count warning. 

 

RAM voltages are shown here: aczdzb.jpg

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Then check or try changing the HDD cable and other SATA socket, if still the same try a different HDD, also check if you don't have any warning on: Reallocated Sectors Count, Spin Retry Count, End-to-End error, Command Timeout, Reallocation Event Count, Current Pending Sector Count, Uncorrectable Sector Count or Soft Read Error Rate.

 

The only warning I got was about Ultra DMA CRC Error Count, I can't check different HDD because I don't have any other at home. I already checked other cable and still the same problems I guess I have to check other SATA socket.

 

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Today I noticed that usually when I get this micro freeze my HDD is at 100% usage.

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It depends on your budget and size...

I've a Crucial M4 64 GB... it was cheap and it's nice... but Samsung 840's have great speeds.

For example this one looks nice: http://www.alternate.pl/Kingston_HyperX/HyperX_3K_SSD_120GB/html/product/999490/?

 

One thing I know is that i want it to be around 120GB or 250GB and I prefer to wait longer to buy something good than rush and than regret it so the budget part is not a problem.

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One thing I know is that i want it to be around 120GB or 250GB and I prefer to wait longer to buy something good than rush and than regret it so the budget part is not a problem.

Defiantly get at least 120GB for your SSD, it will have enough room for half a dozen of your long load screen games and your OS.

 

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