Odd Frame Rate Spikes in Several Games

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Recently I've gotten this weird frame spikes in a few games (Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite and Tropico 4 to name a few)

Whenever I run around in a game, and turn rapidly, the game skips, and stutters for a quick second. I ran FRAPS, and my frame rate goes down to 58 or 59 when it happens. I thought was a V-Sync issue, but this happens even when I turn it off. I'll get around 120 FPS, yet I still get the spikes.

I've updated all my drivers, and tried variations of Triple Buffering, Frame Rate limiting and V-Sync in every program I could find.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

My specs:

Nvidia 560 ti
Intel i7 2600 @ 3.4GHZ
8 GBs Ram
 
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I tried Adaptive V-Sync, but it didn't work. It's not really about the frame rate taking a hit to something lower than what I'd like, it's simply a jerk in the game where it freezes for a split second.


Hard Drive: ATA Samsung HD103SM SCSI 1TB Disk
Graphics Card: Nvidia 560 Ti 1280mb VRAM
Memory: 2x2gb DDR3 1333MHz Ram Sticks (Unsure Make and Model)
Processor: Intel i7 2600 @ 3400 MHz (Stock clocks)




 
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The games you are playing are probably peaking beyond the point of ram usage that the 560Ti currently has. I would suggest turning down your AA+AF and see if that alleviates from the issue. You are probably just like I said pushing you video ram usage.
 
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I updated my Motherboard BIOS to it's most recent version. Is there something else I need to update as well?



I don't have either AA or AF enabled, which is the odd thing. I also thought this was a performance issue related to V-Sync, but I lowered the resolution down to 720p, and the issue stayed the same. I also thought it may have been a driver issue, but I did a clean install and re-installed older drivers and the issue stayed. It's weird because it only happens in certain places in the games. I can drive through fields and open areas okay, but whenever I get into a place where there's a lot of objects, and I turn quickly is when I get it.
 
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Things you can check for yourself. I'd do this just for yourself place everything at stock CPU/RAM everything at stock and try that. Also, if it persists try lowering your games quality detail.

What I'm thinking here is that it can also be an issue with your stability. Ram can sometimes offset things like this as well as the likelihood that your cpu overclock isn't stable.

Again, I'm not saying its one thing or the other I'm just giving you alternative ways of finding out what the issue is and there is a good chance that it may be one, two or all of those things.
 
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I did a RAM test with MemTest86 and got a lot of errors. I tried going back and running a test on each stick individually and got a lot of errors on each stick. Could all of my ram sticks be faulty? All 4? Or could there be something that may influence a MemTest86 Test?
 
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Yes if you are getting ram errors with your system memory that could be why you are experiencing all the trouble you are currently. Also +1 to yourself for running MemTestx86. I would first set your ram at default timings and then if the errors persist replace your memory before looking for more issues. This is why you are having spikes just about 100% positive here.
 
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I tried updated all my drivers and rolling back my mobo BIOS. Still didn't work. This is really weird. I can run some games like Civilization V just fine, but Far Cry 3, Bioshock and Dishonored have problems.
 
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Try dropping the resolution you are playing at in game and see if it continues. If it quits doing this then you are probably running out of memory.

edit : sorry missed the comment about you already dropping your resolution down. Ignore me :).
 
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Didn't do anything for me unfortunately
 
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I tried contacting my manufacturer for a replacement graphics card, to see if that may be the issue. Thank you for your help so far.
 
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You are getting errors within your system memory that is a pretty big deal when looking at this. It can totally mess up your experience you should receive 0 errors with your memory. It can be his graphics card but when memtest turns around and give you errors its time to get new ram.
 
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I have a technician coming out in a few days that will replace RAM, the motherboard, GPU, anything I need. Hopefully it's something I can simply fix like swapping out a piece of hardware.
 
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Go into your bios and check the voltage on vdimm. Go up another notch higher as long as you aren't over 1.65 V you should be ok with anything under that. Run memtest each time you turn it up and see if it helps with the errors.
 
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