Hi Guys!
I just upgraded from a FX-6100 to an i7 4790k 2 weeks ago. I'm very happy with the upgrade and everything's been smooth sailing till yesterday when everything would hang for a fraction of a second and would resume like nothing happened.
My immediate action was to check the task manager to see if thinking is running - nothing there. Restocked the RAM - still no. Checked all the connections - nope. Restored EFI settings to default - nada. It was getting irritating at this point that I decided to reinstall windows. To my dismay, the stuttering still occurs.
So I went online to look for clues. All of the threads I've found regarding stutterings where happening while gaming, but the stuttering happens while I'm browsing, playing music, etc. (it is happening right now)
Having not found any clues, I went back to my cave and tried to figure out what was happening. I've drawn three conclusions - either I had a faulty chip, something was running in the background, or there's some setting in MSI Command Center that wasn't right. So after some fiddling, I found CC's CPU info window. I found out that while task man was reporting 4-6% CPU usage, command center's window showed that the usage was waaaaaaaay off! Core 0 is running at a 50-70%, core 2 would spike to 22%, and core1 and core 3 were always at 1-3%. I tried searching google, but nothing came up.
Appreciate the help!
Specs:
i7 4790k (4.0ghz stock)
8gb 1800
MSI Z97-G55
R9 270 Dual-X
1TB Seagate SSHD
500GB Seagate
Corsair VS550
Edit: I ran prime95 for 10 minutes, and confirmed that core0 is actually running. 6 threads were already done with two but the first two were still working on the first.
I just upgraded from a FX-6100 to an i7 4790k 2 weeks ago. I'm very happy with the upgrade and everything's been smooth sailing till yesterday when everything would hang for a fraction of a second and would resume like nothing happened.
My immediate action was to check the task manager to see if thinking is running - nothing there. Restocked the RAM - still no. Checked all the connections - nope. Restored EFI settings to default - nada. It was getting irritating at this point that I decided to reinstall windows. To my dismay, the stuttering still occurs.
So I went online to look for clues. All of the threads I've found regarding stutterings where happening while gaming, but the stuttering happens while I'm browsing, playing music, etc. (it is happening right now)
Having not found any clues, I went back to my cave and tried to figure out what was happening. I've drawn three conclusions - either I had a faulty chip, something was running in the background, or there's some setting in MSI Command Center that wasn't right. So after some fiddling, I found CC's CPU info window. I found out that while task man was reporting 4-6% CPU usage, command center's window showed that the usage was waaaaaaaay off! Core 0 is running at a 50-70%, core 2 would spike to 22%, and core1 and core 3 were always at 1-3%. I tried searching google, but nothing came up.
Appreciate the help!
Specs:
i7 4790k (4.0ghz stock)
8gb 1800
MSI Z97-G55
R9 270 Dual-X
1TB Seagate SSHD
500GB Seagate
Corsair VS550
Edit: I ran prime95 for 10 minutes, and confirmed that core0 is actually running. 6 threads were already done with two but the first two were still working on the first.
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