Not sure what is causing hitching

[adadglgmatt]

A while ago, I experienced what I would call performance "hitching" or "hanging" when doing simple tasks on my computer, like browsing the web or streaming YouTube or playing a game. I decided to leave my performance up on my task manager to see what could be the cause and I found that during these hitches, my HDD usage would max with no data transfer happening (no read or write). So I decided to purchase a new hard drive, thinking the current one was just getting old (about 3 years). I made a post about this a while ago here.

 

However, after purchasing a new hard drive, I noticed the same hitching problems still coming up. What else could be causing the problem? The processor or the motherboard?

 

Current System

Intel 540s Series 480GB SATA III SSD

WD 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 380x

MSI 990FXA

AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz

G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2x4GB)

EVGA SuperNOVA 750W

 

Old HDD/SSD

Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6Gb/s

Kingston SSD V300 120GB SATA III