Random Framerate Drops

zbrains

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Well, i figured i would come to y'all since i have exhausted all my resources and to be honest im at a loss here.... To begin i have already done the basics.. defraged my hard drives, bios update, revamped my cooling system, updated drivers.. the works. Now for the problem. For the past while (about a month or so) any really demanding games i have (Battlefield 3, Bioshock Infinite) have these really random frame rate drops, and by drops i mean more of a stutter, the kind of stutter you would get in a conventional game when the game saves or loads a new area, usually a second or two delay in the game, now if it was just that i would be fine but it appears to be totally random and as i said before im at a loss. I am just really hoping somone here has a similar problem or have found a solution to this

As always here are the system specs
OS: Windows 7 64 bit home premium
GPU:Radeon HD 6870 OC'ed to 955/1160
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
750 watt power supply

Again any help would be greatly appreciated , i currently am working with EA's people to get this resolved but its kinda touch and go right now since we are communicating through email, hopefully i can find a "quick fix" or something i haven't already tried.

Thanks a bunch
 

Mephic

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You say it's 750W PSU - what brand? What is the value on +12v line?

Another thing- are You sure that Your GPU overclock is stable? - try to play on stock. Why didn't You OC this CPU too? It can lower performance on stock clocks easily.

Did You check Your ram with memtest? If not than do it.
 

zbrains

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OCZ Fatal1ty 750W
And its output is 3.3V@28A,+5V@30A,+12V1@18A,+12V2@18A,+12V3@18A,+12V4@18A,-12V@0.8A,+5VSB@3.0A
and it had a factory overclock and it was stable and still ran into this problem, and i am also in the process of testing my memory.

Thanks
 

zbrains

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So a quad core 3.4gigahertz is bottlenecking? ... And sorry for the double post my browser muffed it up and I'm not sure how to delete a post, I ran memtest and after 8 passes nothing was found.

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zbrains

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I overclocked the cpu to 3.8 and brought the GPU down to stock speeds and running the latest drivers for AMD still getting the issue. This is a headache and a half.