i5 2400 @3.1 bottleneck when not maxed out?

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My specs:

i5 2400 @3.1ghz
Win 7 x64
8 gb 1066 RAM
HD 7770 1gb GDDR5
800w psu

EDIT: Biostar TH67B Mobo

I've noticed that I cannot multitask very well. My pc tends to bog down or completely freeze sometimes when I try doing multiple tasks. My RAM and CPU usage can be less than half and I'm still bogged down. Any ideas about why and how to rectify this?
 
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I have checked for viruses, malware, adware, etc. I have optimized, defragged hdd's and registry. I do all that weekly. I have two physical drives. One is a Seagate 500GB partitioned into 60GB for my O.S. and the other part is just storage. I have a Samsung 1TB that I have all my other programs installed on.
 
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Why is that strange? Genuinely curious about that. And the 1066 is what came with the p.c. (budget barebones kit).
 
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Hi,

Your CPU is great :)
You should run stability tests like Prime95 for CPU, Furmark burn in for GPU, memtest for RAM and HD tune for HDD.
You should also run 3D mark full PC benchmark. If underscore in some component you know where to dig harder.

Those tests may reveal some low results and point you where is your problem.

Best regards :)
 
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I use SpeedFan and Rainmeter to keep temps displayed on my monitor and they stay low. The vid card will get up to 60 Celsius when i'm gaming, and the CPU will get into the 40's but again that's just when I'm gaming. Otherwise they stay much lower, and there aren't any temp spikes when I bog down.

 
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I've run the tests you've mentioned.

I ran Prime95 for 5 tests, everything is fine.

Furmark, I have no idea. I didn't see any warning messages pop up. /shrug.

HD Tune (trial edition) says that both of my harddrives have problems here: (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 100 100 0 172 warning "There were communication errors. This may be caused by a damaged cable." Each harddrive has its own cable, and both cables passed visual inspection. I pulled them out, cleaned them, and the program still has that error on both drives. Doesn't seem likely that both cables would be bad, and since I don't have replacements to test them against...
 
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CrystalDiskInfo said that my 1TB drive was okay but had this to say about my 500GB drive:


ID Current Worst Threshold Raw Values Attribute Name

C5 100 100 __0 000000000001 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000001 Uncorrectable Sector Count


I have absolutely no idea what that means.

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If it's a SATA controller issue. Is that a software issue that can be fixed or a hardware issue with the mobo itself? How would I best confirm such an issue?
 
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It is both of my drives. I ran SeaToolsDOS and it reported the problems as "Fixed" however they are still listed, but no longer reported as "Caution" in CrystalDiskInfo.

 
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Still testing that. Giving the random nature of said freezes and hangs, it could take a while to determine if they are indeed gone.

Looking into: "(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count" that both HDD's are reporting.

 
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I was talking about crystaldiskmark. I wanted to see what kind of performance you are getting on your disk drives. Too low and you likely have an issue at the disk or controller level.



 
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Okay, here's the cyrsta mark numbers. C and D are both the same physical drive. C has been partitioned and only holds my O.S. and essential files that need to be installed there.

Test : 1000 MB [C: 64.0% (38.7/60.5 GB)] (x2)

* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 43.978 MB/s
Sequential Write : 40.567 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 25.239 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 26.375 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.479 MB/s [ 116.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.706 MB/s [ 172.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.566 MB/s [ 138.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.697 MB/s [ 170.2 IOPS]
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Test : 1000 MB [D: 70.3% (285.1/405.2 GB)] (x2)

* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 60.843 MB/s
Sequential Write : 58.796 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 32.903 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 35.938 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.553 MB/s [ 135.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.864 MB/s [ 210.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.658 MB/s [ 160.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.868 MB/s [ 211.8 IOPS]
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Test : 1000 MB [E: 77.0% (717.6/931.4 GB)] (x2)

* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 100.564 MB/s
Sequential Write : 98.108 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 38.326 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 50.894 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.478 MB/s [ 116.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.919 MB/s [ 224.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.625 MB/s [ 152.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.910 MB/s [ 222.2 IOPS]
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Now, I don't really know what any of this means.
 
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