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Stutters, Freezes, and Framerate drops

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November 8, 2013 8:59:53 AM

Tagging as CPU as I have no idea where the problem is coming from.

So a few months ago my PC was running fine without a single hiccup. Then recently without any kind of change to programs or what not, it started randomly freezing for a few seconds, (sometimes with mouse movement, other times total freeze) and when it comes back up, my framerate in anything I do (mostly games) will be capped at half my refresh rate and be dropping to 2 frames per second at random. On top of this upon shutting down the PC after this windows does it's thing, the screen turns black I get this really loud sound like a fan going triple its max speed for a few seconds then it shuts off with the PC. My fans are clean, been blown out with air in the last week, and nothing out of the ordinary installed/accessed. But this happens at random, about every 100th time I start my PC, sometimes it will be twice a week, or almost 2 months apart.

Needless to say this has me worried. I built this thing to last, and I don't have backup PC, or the funds as yet to build the next one that I've been planning. If anyone has any idea what this could be and how to fix it I'd be most grateful. I tried searching and I did find other's with the same sort of issues, but no answers.

Build Specs-

CPU: Intel i7 2600k
MB: ASRock Z68 Professional Gen3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 16gb 9.9.9.24
GPU: Nvida GeForce GTX 560 Ti
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850W
HD: 2 Intel 80gb 320 series SSDs in a Raid 0 (boot/OS)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache (storage)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

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November 8, 2013 2:15:36 PM

Hi
- FURMARK for GPU
- Geekbench for CPU
- CRYSTAL Disk Mark for HDD -
post an results to see ......

Other testing tool can be Passmark - you test all components , then you search other ppl results to find simmilar HW and you compare .....
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November 8, 2013 3:04:09 PM

Shade151 said:
Tagging as CPU as I have no idea where the problem is coming from.

So a few months ago my PC was running fine without a single hiccup. Then recently without any kind of change to programs or what not, it started randomly freezing for a few seconds, (sometimes with mouse movement, other times total freeze) and when it comes back up, my framerate in anything I do (mostly games) will be capped at half my refresh rate and be dropping to 2 frames per second at random. On top of this upon shutting down the PC after this windows does it's thing, the screen turns black I get this really loud sound like a fan going triple its max speed for a few seconds then it shuts off with the PC. My fans are clean, been blown out with air in the last week, and nothing out of the ordinary installed/accessed. But this happens at random, about every 100th time I start my PC, sometimes it will be twice a week, or almost 2 months apart.

Needless to say this has me worried. I built this thing to last, and I don't have backup PC, or the funds as yet to build the next one that I've been planning. If anyone has any idea what this could be and how to fix it I'd be most grateful. I tried searching and I did find other's with the same sort of issues, but no answers.

Build Specs-

CPU: Intel i7 2600k
MB: ASRock Z68 Professional Gen3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 16gb 9.9.9.24
GPU: Nvida GeForce GTX 560 Ti
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850W
HD: 2 Intel 80gb 320 series SSDs in a Raid 0 (boot/OS)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache (storage)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit



Hey Shade.

Are you upgraded to the latest drivers on your GPU?
Do you have the latest motherboard bios on your Z68 Professional?

As stated above,
could you run Prime 95 for 5-10 minutes, and let us know what temps you have?

Also could you install Unigine Valley? Its a software that runs your GPU through a benchmarking course to see what temps you get. Run it in Extreme HD.

From there, we can continue to diagnose the issue.

Temp Monitoring:
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Prime 95:
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

Unigine Valley:
http://unigine.com/products/valley/

Good luck,
Dave


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November 8, 2013 3:20:57 PM

Yeah check the temps, IMO the most likely culprit since your fan is going haywire and you get random shutdowns and performance drops.

Do you have an aftermarket cooler?

You could always try a virus/malware scan, it doesn't hurt. I suggest malwarebytes/avast/spybot s&d. Or use your own.
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