Help My computer has random short freezes can't find my own solution!

capt cinnacrunch

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So i keep having freezes where either my mouse will disappear for about 2-4 seconds and other freezes where anything visual freezes but i still hear sound continuing on. I have updated all my drivers, and I have run many scans with Norton. I used ccleaner and still nothing has worked. My specs are.

Asrock z77 Extreme 3
Intel core i3-2120 cpu @ 3.30GHZ
8.00 GB ram
windows 7 home premium 64-bit
500gb western digital hdd
Amd hd 7850 2GB (msi twin frozr)

I'm running catalyst 14.4 and have windows up to date.
When i go to open tabs on a web page or open a couple folders/programs at once they will freeze up for a couple seconds. My internet works fine (30mb/s) but sometimes in games when the freeze happens i loose connection. Sometimes Norton says Chrome is using alot of cpu power even when its not on in task manager, and task manager says 10-13% of cpu is being used idle.

My last resort right now is to reinstall windows and all my drivers but i am really hoping someone else has a solution that works because i have 403GB of data that i don't wanna backup/re download.
 
Solution
Temps in F right not C ;) couple things come to mind, check for Malware (malwarebytes has a good free scanner), also what DRAM are you running and do you have the latest BIOS and mobo drivers

capt cinnacrunch

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May 23, 2014
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alright i haven't changed the voltages but from what ive seen is that so far no freezing anymore. I'm thinking maybe there was a malicious program that was demolishing my CPU speed making everything take a step back frozen.