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Liamgunboun

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My computer keeps freezing at random intervals for about 7-9 seconds each time. I have malwarebites and avast, scanning now so that should not be a problem. Could it be my HDD?
 
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As long as all the other stats look good. I am not 100% sure, but do you ever hear the drive park the head when idle and then notice the lag time?

If you run something like HWmon, its constant checking of temps may also prevent the drive from idle parking(sleep).

Normally good drives do not cause slowdowns like you mention.
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To be helpful, I would need more information. What is the make/model of your motherboard, HDD, GPU, CPU, RAM, PSU? What operating system are you running? What programs are you running when the freezing occurs?
 
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Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8110MB RAM
Page File: 4794MB used, 11422MB available
HDD: 2TB WD Green
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 ATX AM3+
OS: Windows 7 Basic
 
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i would dump avast, it is a sack of crud and can cause all sorts of performance problems, i would get microsoft security essentials instead or the latest AVG if you want a free antivirus.

also grab ccleaner and run the file cleaner and then run the registry cleaner multiple times untill it detects no more errors to fix.
 
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Liamgunboun

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My last hdd broke so i was forced to use this for my OS, but it works fine. For the temps im a cool freak so everything runs at 30-40 Idle 50-60 under load. I have security essentials not running, so ill uninstall avast then.
 
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If you think that it MAY be a parking issue with the drive, see if CrystalDiskInfo has an option under Function -> Advanced Features -> AAM/APM Control. If it lets you Disable APM, it will keep the drive from parking until the next reboot. Please note that doing this can make ANY drive with a g-sense motion sensor report vibrations very easy(more of a test solution).
 
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Liamgunboun

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Im downloading crystal disk info and the psu will never be a problem, I got an 800w from a friend. Ive also got a thing that comes whith the mobo that monitors voltage and temps of everything as well as RPM of the fans.
 
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As long as all the other stats look good. I am not 100% sure, but do you ever hear the drive park the head when idle and then notice the lag time?

If you run something like HWmon, its constant checking of temps may also prevent the drive from idle parking(sleep).

Normally good drives do not cause slowdowns like you mention.
 
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Are you still running the program(hwmon)?

Please keep an eye on the SMART status with CrystalDiskInfo if you can(check it once a day or something). Look at the reallocated sector count. You want this to be ZERO.

I am saying this because I saw a drive that was doing something similar and the owner thought it had been fixed by a defrag. That just triggered the drive to remap some sectors. As more bad sectors build up the drive fail very fast and data recovery was hard.

I do not want you to have to put up with a drive failing very fast.
 
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