Strange lag

[Chelsea_Summers]

Hello.
I'm quite new here, so please forgive me if I'm doing something wrong.

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed my PC lagging at times, and it only lasts a few seconds at a time.
Nothing triggers it.
It's seemingly random.

 

I managed to capture it on video, but ShadowPlay didn't really seem to acknowledge it, and the footage looks rather normal.

It killed my SSD (or rather, refused to boot after everything froze) at one point, and so, I bought a new one, though the problem remains.
I've talked to several people, though none seem to know what's going on.

 

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz 16GB (x2 for a total of 32GB)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB

I'm not sure what my HDD is.
I think it's a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5", according to the site I bought it from (granted, that was in 2012, so...).

 

If you have any suggestions, questions, or anything else, please let me know!

[Audity]

I had a similar problem with my setup (Ryzen 5 3600 + Radeon RX5700 XT). There's a "fast boot" setting in Windows which speeds up boot times by loading fewer processes at boot and the rest later. If you are booting off an SSD though it hardly speeds things up. The loading of processes later was causing stutters, so I turned it off in Windows and in my BIOS (since the setting exists in 2 places) and it resolved my troubles.

 

I doubt the stuttering is RAM related since 32GB is plenty, but 6GB of VRAM could maybe cause SSD problems from having to load data from storage more frequently, since most games use at least that amount (if not more) now. Not saying this is fact, just my best guess!

[SimplyGone]

What games are you playing? what resolution  are you playing them at?

[Chelsea_Summers]

1 minute ago, Audity said:

I had a similar problem with my setup (Ryzen 5 3600 + Radeon RX5700 XT). There's a "fast boot" setting in Windows which speeds up boot times by loading fewer processes at boot and the rest later. If you are booting off an SSD though it hardly speeds things up. The loading of processes later was causing stutters, so I turned it off in Windows and in my BIOS (since the setting exists in 2 places) and it resolved my troubles.

 

I doubt the stuttering is RAM related since 32GB is plenty, but 6GB of VRAM could maybe cause SSD problems from having to load data from storage more frequently, since most games use at least that amount (if not more) now. Not saying this is fact, just my best guess!

I did turn that off, after a friend asked if it was enabled. It sadly didn't help much.
I'm not sure if I turned it off in my BIOS, though I'm pretty sure it came already off.
Thank you for your reply!

[Chelsea_Summers]

3 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

What games are you playing? what resolution  are you playing them at?

I usually play Overwatch and The Sims 4 at 2560 x 1440.

[Audity]

One other suggestion I just remembered, I used to use a Windows slideshow to cycle between a few different backgrounds, and this was causing a stutter every time the background changed. I think it has something to do with Windows using the GPU to do the fade between backgrounds, and it doesn't have a direct fix in Windows. This only applies if you also have a slideshow background, but I figured it was worth posting just in case

[Audity]

Duplicate post sorry!