Insanely high response time

[Samuel32197]

Well this is happening when im updating steam games (or really doing anything)

And i also have a problem with my windows and programs freezing randomly

I've have seen it go as high as 1900ms.

 

And it's only on my HHD, repsonse time on my SSD is fine

[kelvinhall05]

Download CrystalDiskInfo and check the drive status.

[Samuel32197]

2 minutes ago, Judd said:

Is it an SSD or HDD? If its an HDD that is expected.

It is indeed a HHD

[Tabs]

3 minutes ago, Samuel32197 said:

Well this is happening when im updating steam games (or really doing anything)

And i also have a problem with my windows and programs freezing randomly

I've have seen it go as high as 1900ms.

 

And it's only on my HHD, repsonse time on my SSD is fine

 

 

In general terms this is to be expected on a hard disk - especially if you're operating on many small files or if the disk is at almost full capacity. 

 

If this happens with almost any kind of access - including just copying a large file from your SSD to HDD, then it could indicate your drive is starting to fail. Check CrystalDiskInfo like @kelvinhall05 and make sure it's holding up alright.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Samuel32197 said:

It is indeed a HHD

yep thats your problem. Hdds are slow like that. If you don't want that problem get a ssd. Otherwise there sin't much you can do.

[Samuel32197]

2 minutes ago, Tabs said:

 

In general terms this is to be expected on a hard disk - especially if you're operating on many small files or if the disk is at almost full capacity. 

 

If this happens with almost any kind of access - including just copying a large file from your SSD to HDD, then it could indicate your drive is starting to fail. Check CrystalDiskInfo like @kelvinhall05 and make sure it's holding up alright.

It seems to be fine.

 

It's just that i think the entire motherboard is about to fail because there are alot of problems.

 

1. CPU does not keep it's overclock

2. It bluescreened 5 times in 24 hours

3. Sometimes it won't send a signal to the monitor

4. RAM won't keep it's overclock

5. It can't show the time right

 

But i'll be building a new one next month because of this ones problems and age.

[Rainbow Dash]

is that an ATA drive?

[Rainbow Dash]

3 minutes ago, Samuel32197 said:

It seems to be fine.

 

It's just that i think the entire motherboard is about to fail because there are alot of problems.

 

1. CPU does not keep it's overclock

2. It bluescreened 5 times in 24 hours

3. Sometimes it won't send a signal to the monitor

4. RAM won't keep it's overclock

5. It can't show the time right

 

But i'll be building a new one next month because of this ones problems and age.

Change the CMOS battery with a new CR2032 or DL2032, 3V battery. Cause those are all the signs of a dying battery.

[Samuel32197]

2 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

is that an ATA drive?

I have no idea

[Samuel32197]

1 minute ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Change the CMOS battery with a new CR2032 or DL2032, 3V battery.

Already tested that a few times

[Tabs]

3 minutes ago, Samuel32197 said:

It seems to be fine.

 

It's just that i think the entire motherboard is about to fail because there are alot of problems.

 

1. CPU does not keep it's overclock

2. It bluescreened 5 times in 24 hours

3. Sometimes it won't send a signal to the monitor

4. RAM won't keep it's overclock

5. It can't show the time right

 

But i'll be building a new one next month because of this ones problems and age.

 

 

It sounds like high latency on your hard disk is the least of your problems mate. If your CPU and RAM keep losing their clocks, and the machine won't keep time, it's possible the CMOS battery is dying on your board. Though that shouldn't directly lead to bluescreens, just annoyance. The bluescreens could be anything from an overzealous overclock to hardware failure or some kind of weird driver situation.

 

As for your drive, I just checked here, I got a max of about ~800ms latency to my Seagate drive, but that was when writing sequentially. When doing random operations I'd expect that to increase somewhat, but this is on an almost empty drive. If your drive has very little space left, it'll take far longer to respond when writing to the drive since it won't be able to easily find contiguous space for any transactions (and NTFS file operations are atomic).

 

How much space does your disk have left? I also notice you've split it into multiple partitions - can we assume Windows and your main programs (except games) are on your SSD?

[Rainbow Dash]

Weird that your drive is causing slow down issues, but what CPU are you using? Cause I know that if you are transferring large amounts of files or any files, it will eat up the SATA bandwidth. I have the exact same drive as yours with only 20GB of space left for games and it's not causing freezing with file transfers.

[Samuel32197]

10 hours ago, Tabs said:

 

It sounds like high latency on your hard disk is the least of your problems mate. If your CPU and RAM keep losing their clocks, and the machine won't keep time, it's possible the CMOS battery is dying on your board. Though that shouldn't directly lead to bluescreens, just annoyance. The bluescreens could be anything from an overzealous overclock to hardware failure or some kind of weird driver situation.

 

As for your drive, I just checked here, I got a max of about ~800ms latency to my Seagate drive, but that was when writing sequentially. When doing random operations I'd expect that to increase somewhat, but this is on an almost empty drive. If your drive has very little space left, it'll take far longer to respond when writing to the drive since it won't be able to easily find contiguous space for any transactions (and NTFS file operations are atomic).

 

How much space does your disk have left? I also notice you've split it into multiple partitions - can we assume Windows and your main programs (except games) are on your SSD?

It has almost 396 GB of free space left.

I only have games, pictures and videos on this HHD.

[Samuel32197]

10 hours ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Weird that your drive is causing slow down issues, but what CPU are you using? Cause I know that if you are transferring large amounts of files or any files, it will eat up the SATA bandwidth. I have the exact same drive as yours with only 20GB of space left for games and it's not causing freezing with file transfers.

My CPU is a AMD Phenom II X4 965 oveclocked to 3.82Ghz

It's a 4 core CPU without hyperthreading

[Rainbow Dash]

4 hours ago, Samuel32197 said:

My CPU is a AMD Phenom II X4 965 oveclocked to 3.82Ghz

It's a 4 core CPU without hyperthreading

I know that if you overclock the HT freq. with older AMD CPUs you will see a huge performance increase.