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June 13, 2014 12:42:06 AM

So on most high end games, after a short while they start to heavily stutter. like skipping a decent part of a second stutter. I.E. Battlefield 4, Watch Dogs (although it appears to be stuttering for everyone), Thief, and a few others. if i alt+tab and go back into the games, they fix themselves for a few seconds and then go straight back to stuttering. i put bios into optimized defaults, all overclocks are back off just in case. i should mention that when they arent stuttering theyre almost always perfect 60+ FPS.

System:

Mob: Asus p8z77-V
CPU: i7-3770K (stock i reverted in case OC was causing problems)
GPU: msi twinn frozr 4 R9 290x 4Gb Vram
RAM: vengeance 16GB @ 1600 (altho bios wants it at 1333 so i let it ust in case it would help)
PSU: 850 Watt corsair non modular 80 plus bronze
monitor: catleap q270 27" led ips 2560x1440
windows: 7 64 bit
graphics drivers: i was on catalyst 14.6 (current beta) but reverted back to 14.4 just in case as well.

any suggestions are appreciated





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June 13, 2014 12:57:37 AM

monitor your temps first, use afterburner (or something similar) paired with HWInfo64 and display the temps (utilization, etc) on the hud
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June 13, 2014 1:17:27 AM

Cons29 said:
monitor your temps first, use afterburner (or something similar) paired with HWInfo64 and display the temps (utilization, etc) on the hud


My temps are fairly high in my gpu, but to be fair they were before they started stuttering. My r9 easily hits about 90 C. Always has I'd say. Would you recommend blowing out the heatsink of the gpu? Cpu rarely hits 70C.
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June 13, 2014 1:30:06 AM

just to rule out the temp issue (if any), try to use the rig with the side panel open (or improve the airflow, but side panel open is easier just to test)

90 is high. if you can monitor the speed (clock, mem, etc) of the gpu esp when it reaches peak temp then it should be visible if the clocks will ramp down
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June 13, 2014 1:32:57 AM

Which program do you find best for seeing clock and mem speeds live on your screen? Because that would help
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June 13, 2014 2:11:35 AM

i can't remember if what i use has those. but i use a combination of msi afterburner and HWInfo64. They do work together to extend their capabilities. Just look at the settings and look for OSD column somewhere there
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June 13, 2014 11:32:15 AM

Alright I'll do that when I get home from work tonight. My friend recommends changing cpu thermal paste, but my cpu rarely hits 70C is there good reason to do that?
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June 13, 2014 11:36:49 AM

I should add I don't have the stock cpu heatsink I use a hyper 212. Air cooler.
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June 13, 2014 6:09:20 PM

let's keep it simple first, sure we can change things, but let us isolate the issue without doing much (first) :) 
good luck
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June 13, 2014 11:26:59 PM

I will own up to what happened. I had the fann speed inn MSI afterburnnner set to its lowest settinng. Therefore my GPU was overvheatinng. You may all have a good laugh at me. the chosen annswer was chosen because i figured this out by opening the side pannel of my case and feeling the GPU fans annd noticing they were stopped. Thank you Cons29 for answering quickly annd putting up with my idiocy. annd sorry for the multiple typos with 'n's because my n key repeats itself sometimes.
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June 14, 2014 4:02:33 AM

glad you got it sorted out :) 
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