cpu Please help me understand the issue

[Zrel]

I am having an issue with my pc. My set up :

Geforce Gtx 1070ti

Intel i5 4590

power supply - 750W
When playing a game and having discord on, or just having a lot of strain on my pc causes it to "hiccup". A good way to describe it is every 5 seconds or so it looks like It drops to 0fps then back up again. Even though the fps count does not drop. When viewing system processes nothing seems abnormal. Nothing is spiking? What could the issue be? Is my processor throttling my graphics card? 

[johnny5c]

How much RAM do you have?

[TheGlenlivet]

8 minutes ago, Zrel said:

I am having an issue with my pc. My set up :

Geforce Gtx 1070ti

Intel i5 4590

power supply - 750W
When playing a game and having discord on, or just having a lot of strain on my pc causes it to "hiccup". A good way to describe it is every 5 seconds or so it looks like It drops to 0fps then back up again. Even though the fps count does not drop. When viewing system processes nothing seems abnormal. Nothing is spiking? What could the issue be? Is my processor throttling my graphics card? 

Could be.  If you are playing a game and using discord or other programs on the side then it could be the CPU is out of resources.

Full specs?

[Zrel]

I have 16gs of ram

[Zrel]

So when playing Vr for an extended time my pc "runs out of memory"? But wouldn't 16gs of ram be enough?

[Zrel]

Here is an example of the skipping or "hiccups" 

Overwatch 2018.08.17 - 16.19.50.05.mp4