FPS spikes

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

So hey 

 

Lately I have noticed noticable lag spikes while playing most games my computer specs are as follow:

 

Case: NZXT Phantom 410

 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 750w

 

Hard Drives: WD Black caviar 7200rpm 2tb

 

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V

 

Graphics Card: MSI GTX 670 Power Edition 2GB

 

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3

 

CPU: i5 3770K 3.4ghz

 

i have used the fraps frame counter thing and when these spikes occur the frame rate flutters over 70 as usual in battlefield 3

this also happens in minecraft and many other titles and this is fustrating i am reletavily new PC gaming although i did build this pc but any help would be awesome also 

i think it might be my motherboard but who knows.

 

 

thanks 

[DirkaFat]

Drivers?

[Godlygamer23]

Maybe try re-installing your drivers.

[Volbet]

Reinstall the drivers. If you are on a beta driver, roll back to the last stable release.

[ComputerNoob]

i5 3570k or i7 3770k? there isnt a i5 3770k

[Flamewalker]

Are you getting micro freezes or is it just the fps dipping?

Also which nvidia drivers are you running? (320.xx series of drivers are abit messy for bf3, 326.41 is pretty good for bf3, 314.22 also)

Install msi afterburner or evga precision btw, so you can more accurately see whats happening,(can track gpu usage,fps etc)

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

Are you getting micro freezes or is it just the fps dipping?

Also which nvidia drivers are you running? (320.xx series of drivers are abit messy for bf3, 326.41 is pretty good for bf3, 314.22 also)

Install msi afterburner or evga precision btw, so you can more accurately see whats happening,(can track gpu usage,fps etc)

its like both sometimes it freezes and sometimes its drops in fps

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

i5 3570k or i7 3770k? there isnt a i5 3770k

i ment the 3570k

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

Reinstall the drivers. If you are on a beta driver, roll back to the last stable release.

i updated to the new driver but this problem still occurs

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

thanks for the advice and help everyone 

[Flamewalker]

thanks for the advice and help everyone 

 

No problem, what fixed it though? reverting back to the older driver?

[MyMiddleNameIsJonah]

No problem, what fixed it though? reverting back to the older driver?

yeah i just installed the previous version of the driver