SSD/HD causing stuttering?

[propm]

Hey good folks of LTT forum.

 

I just uppgraded my desktop for several of reasons.

I used to have:

FX 8350

GTX 1060,

AMD radeon 270X

Samsung SSD 840 250GB

FireCuda SSHD 1TB

HyperX 8GB x2 RAM

 

I keept the drives after I uppgraded but I formated the C drive and did a clean WIN 10 PRO install on the Samsung drive.

but the new parts are:

Ryzen 1700,

GTX 1060 + GTX 760

Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz 8GB x2

 

I run the RAM at 2666 MHz or something around there, I tried to run it at 3200 but it failed  no suprise there, but I manage to make it work at 2933 or something like that, and it worked fine until I started playing BF1, every time i minimized the game the RAM skyrocketed and the PC got unusable even if I manage to shutdown the game and had to restart, after I turned it down a little more. Also it the system crashed once and that's the main reason why I turned down the MHz.

 

the point is, the system works pretty good, my average FPS are much much better even with my crappy 3GB 1060 card. 

rendering times are super fast compared to the old system, but there is one issue that I still have.

and that is random "freezing" or "stuttering"

it feels most noticeable when browsing the web as I can see the cursor not moving at all, all sound still plays but all video stops.

I was thinking it could have been the GPU, but it seems to not matter witch card I use.

 

So I was wondering, could it be my SSD? it is very old, but barely used before the last 2 years.

and the Samsung software say "Drive condition: GOOD" so I assumed it was in good condition before I bought the parts so I did not want to make the additional cost of buying a new SSD M.2

I am now wondering if that was a mistake not to do. 

 

So what do you guys think? is it possible that my SSD is not as GOOD as the software tells me? or do you thing something else are causing this issue?

 

 

[dany_boy]

Have you tried to run the RAM at the jedec base speed? (2133Mhz with the specified CAS latencies stated by the manufacturer)

[propm]

1 minute ago, dany_boy said:

Have you tried to run the RAM at the jedec base speed? (2133Mhz with the specified CAS latencies stated by the manufacturer)

No, I haven't, I change the the RAM speeds was the second thing I did after I got it all working, I guess I can try, but I just think its so strange that the same issue remains on a system with different CPU, different motherboard and different RAM still have the exact same issue. Also the old system was running 2133 MHz, Well so I think, I never changed the frequency on the RAM. But I guess I can try to run it at 2133.

[dany_boy]

19 minutes ago, propm said:

I was thinking it could have been the GPU, but it seems to not matter witch card I use.

 

1 minute ago, propm said:

the same issue remains on a system with different CPU

So which one did you change, CPU or GPU? You should also make sure to update your bios to the latest rev.

[propm]

Just now, dany_boy said:

 

So which one did you change, CPU or GPU? You should also make sure to update your bios to the latest rev.

I changed the CPU, but I have like 3 GPUs and I've tried them all. 

That was the first thing I did after I started it up for the first time  remember me saying the second thing I did was changing RAM frequency? well the BIOS udate was the first, I knew I could't not run any higher than 2400MHz if I did not update the BIOS. So wanted to do that first  

And I just checked, still not any newer BIOS for my motherboard yet.