annoying constant stuttering

[shadow196]

specs:

 

amd fx 8320. no overclock

amd r9 270x , no overclock

1x 8gb kingston hyperx 1866mhz

1tb seagate barracuda (storage)

64gb transcend ssd (boot drive)

ASUS m5a99x EVO R2.0

Corsair vs550 power supply

windows 7 64bit

went ahead and updated all drivers i could think of.

 

the problem: I experience random freezing and stuttering lasting from 2-5 seconds to 1-2 minutes. Sometimes just the mouse stops working , sometimes the audio gets delayed. the audio getting delayed is reproducible if i play any mildly or heavily demanding titles (rainbow six siege, tom clancy's the division, dota 2)  while playing music via VLC using FLAC audio files. Some in game sounds get delayed/ muted for a while and suddenly all play together. When the mouse stop working, the previous input is continued (if i was holding mouse 1 it will keep firing until it unfreezes). Temps are fine, around 14-18 when idle and 34-40 under load. One thing I noticed was that C drive queue length and highest active time would top out whenever it froze for a couple minutes (but not when it froze for a second or two. it doesnt look like its spiking either). I recently also got a blue screen which said something like "usb driver"(this is what prompted me to update my drivers). Ill take any and all suggestions because this has been happening for way too long. I'd also like to know if there was any free software that could scan for old drivers and suggest new ones.

 

EDIT: My mouse also randomly disconnects for no apparent reason but i've tested it with another system to make sure there's no problem with my mouse itself.

[emosun]

Seems like what would happen if the storage was unusually slow.

 

are you running these games and apps and file off the ssd and not the hdd?

[MrDrWho13]

Could be games loading slowly off the HDD.

[shadow196]

16 minutes ago, emosun said:

Seems like what would happen if the storage was unusually slow.

 

are you running these games and apps and file off the ssd and not the hdd?

Due to the small size of the ssd, almost everything is running off the HDD.

[shadow196]

17 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

Could be games loading slowly off the HDD.

can I ask you to go a bit more into detail?

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, shadow196 said:

Due to the small size of the ssd, almost everything is running off the HDD.

whats the date on that drive? They have been making 1tb drives for 10 years now and if it's an old 5400rpm drive it could easily be just too slow.

[shadow196]

Just now, emosun said:

whats the date on that drive? They have been making 1tb drives for 10 years now and if it's an old 5400rpm drive it could easily be just too slow.

its a relatively new 7200 rpm drive. I bought it new at the end of 2014

[emosun]

1 minute ago, shadow196 said:

I bought it new at the end of 2014

So that's the date written on the drive then , 2014?

do this , find a file or game that stutters , then run it off the ssd and disconnect the hdd comepltely from the machine and see if it still stutters

[shadow196]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

So that's the date written on the drive then , 2014?

do this , find a file or game that stutters , then run it off the ssd and disconnect the hdd comepltely from the machine and see if it still stutters

Everything stutters, even the desktop even when no background programs are running.

[Paul Vreeland]

Fire up a task manager and look for your bottlenecks.  Windows 10 has a pretty simple task manager built in that shows you what is running 100%.

 

Once you know where the weak link is in the chain, you can investigate further and find what is taxing the component.

[CDHoward]

It's no wonder you're getting bad performance. Your specs are fine, but you completely ruin it all by using Windows 7, and by your completely insufficient PSU.

 

EDIT: When I said your specs are fine, I thought you had an FX 8350. The 8320 is just not a good chip (and I'm an AMD fanboi)

[shadow196]

11 hours ago, CDHoward said:

It's no wonder you're getting bad performance. Your specs are fine, but you completely ruin it all by using Windows 7, and by your completely insufficient PSU.

 

EDIT: When I said your specs are fine, I thought you had an FX 8350. The 8320 is just not a good chip (and I'm an AMD fanboi)

looks like you're right. i guess i had bad luck while buying and looked up a bad website. I'm getting a 1050ti and 1050 ti soon which should help ease the load. I might consider getting a 650 watt power supply for overclocking (post 1050ti). Is there anything I can do now to reduce the load like maybe disabling a couple of cores or something?