I built a gaming rig about 2 weeks ago, here are the following specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5
CPU: i5-4690k
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 280x Double Dissipation
RAM: 8 GB Patriot Viper 3
PSU: Corsair CX600M 600W
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD: Seagate Barricuda 1 TB
So it was running smoothly for about a week and a half and I began to notice it starting to stutter a bit... By stutter I mean there would be a slight delay for time to time (sometimes seconds apart, sometimes minutes apart) when I would drag my mouse across. It was wide spread across the computer, when I watch streams the streams would stutter too and in games it was unbearable. I believe it's something hardware related.
I just changed to an SSD today, fresh OS install and within 30 minutes of the OS being installed I began to experience similar stutters. It started off pretty slow initially and a restart would stop it from making games unplayable but I want to diagnose the issue. Is it possible that my PSU isn't capable of fully powering everything so it's kind of bottle necking causing these issues?
I can see as the day goes on how the SSD is with this stuttering issue and see if it keeps re-occuring, just looking for some advice.
EDIT: Been looking around and noticed it might be something CPU/Ram based. Been keep an eye on my task manager to see what's going on and it seems with my web browser up, steam downloading DayZ and nothing else it uses about 10-25% of my CPU and sits constantly around 2-3 GB of RAM being used, is that normal for what I'm doing? I'm curious as to why there are so many chrome.exe in my processes though and seems to be svchost.exe taking up a lot of memory which I know is needed but might be the root of the issue?
EDIT 2: Been running Prime95 as a CPU test and it's using 100% of my CPU and doesn't seem to be an issue here.
EDIT 3: Sudden CPU Usage spike causes that slight stutter: Under 10% to around 40-50% causes around a 5-10 second stutter. Happened mainly (so far) with navigating to web pages and what not. Seems to be mainly csrss.exe related, possibly graphic driver error, going to reinstall and see what happens.
SOLUTION: Figured it out, csrss.exe was the process that would spike my memory randomly -- it's some Microsoft file you can't end in the task manager that has to do with graphics and clientside stuff. I noticed my stutter to begin when I was installing my graphics driver, just uninstalled them and reinstalled and it works like a beauty again.
Mobo: Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5
CPU: i5-4690k
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 280x Double Dissipation
RAM: 8 GB Patriot Viper 3
PSU: Corsair CX600M 600W
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB
HDD: Seagate Barricuda 1 TB
So it was running smoothly for about a week and a half and I began to notice it starting to stutter a bit... By stutter I mean there would be a slight delay for time to time (sometimes seconds apart, sometimes minutes apart) when I would drag my mouse across. It was wide spread across the computer, when I watch streams the streams would stutter too and in games it was unbearable. I believe it's something hardware related.
I just changed to an SSD today, fresh OS install and within 30 minutes of the OS being installed I began to experience similar stutters. It started off pretty slow initially and a restart would stop it from making games unplayable but I want to diagnose the issue. Is it possible that my PSU isn't capable of fully powering everything so it's kind of bottle necking causing these issues?
I can see as the day goes on how the SSD is with this stuttering issue and see if it keeps re-occuring, just looking for some advice.
EDIT: Been looking around and noticed it might be something CPU/Ram based. Been keep an eye on my task manager to see what's going on and it seems with my web browser up, steam downloading DayZ and nothing else it uses about 10-25% of my CPU and sits constantly around 2-3 GB of RAM being used, is that normal for what I'm doing? I'm curious as to why there are so many chrome.exe in my processes though and seems to be svchost.exe taking up a lot of memory which I know is needed but might be the root of the issue?
EDIT 2: Been running Prime95 as a CPU test and it's using 100% of my CPU and doesn't seem to be an issue here.
EDIT 3: Sudden CPU Usage spike causes that slight stutter: Under 10% to around 40-50% causes around a 5-10 second stutter. Happened mainly (so far) with navigating to web pages and what not. Seems to be mainly csrss.exe related, possibly graphic driver error, going to reinstall and see what happens.
SOLUTION: Figured it out, csrss.exe was the process that would spike my memory randomly -- it's some Microsoft file you can't end in the task manager that has to do with graphics and clientside stuff. I noticed my stutter to begin when I was installing my graphics driver, just uninstalled them and reinstalled and it works like a beauty again.
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