HDD does a slowing down sound while playing games

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darksiderpt

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Hey, i've been having this problem for a week now, my hard disk drive seems to do a weird sound when playing games in high settings like Dying Light, Watch Dogs, even the most recent Resivent Evil HD Remastered makes that, but i have games like DmC Devil May Cry, League of Legends, etc that don't stress the pc that hard and don't make that sound, the sound is like when the computer shutsdown the hard drive does the slowing down speed right? well when i am playing those games and others in particular it does that sound constantly slowing down and regaining speed, the thing is, i've been building my pc part by part for 6 months now, and my GPU had a fan problem so it had to be replaced, but i could play The evil within and watch dogs and all those games with no problem, and then i had to choose a new GPU because my old one had no fix and they had no equal in stock so i went from ASUS HD 7770 to ASUS R9 270 OC-Edition, and only when i got this new GPU, the hard drive started slowing down games and doing this weird sound. I don't know if it's from the PSU or from the HDD because this GPU is a bit more power hungry than the last one i had, i have already run various disk checks from different programs, they all tell my HDD is in good shape, it's only 2 years old too.

My specs:

RAM: 2x4Gb DDR3 1333MHz Corsair
Mobo: Asus B85M-G
GPU: Asus R9 270 OC-Edition
HDD: 500Gb WD Caviar Blue
PSU: A 2-year-old low brand 500w
CPU: i5-core 4570 @ 3.2Ghz
 
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GDDR just refers to the RAM on the graphics card (Graphics DDR).

From what you've described, it suggests to me that your HDD is slowly failing. This can happen slowly as the motor in the HDD slows down, or suddenly.

If this is what is happening, it wouldn't show up in any HDD scans, because the HDD still functions, just at a slower rate. Fortunately for you, this is a slow failure, so you have time to get a replacement and move your data.

This is not an exact science, but best case, if this is what is happening to your HDD, you have anywhere from 1 to 12 months of slower HDD before it completely fails.

HDDs are pretty inexepensive, so it's pretty easy to get a replacement. Once you get a replacement and mirror your current...
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Are you experiencing a slow down of the game at the same time? HDDs sometimes make noise. My current theory is you went from a 2gb video card to a 4gb (right?). Is is possible that the games are sending fewer HDD calls for data because the GDDR is filling up a lot slower?
No idea, just a theory.
 
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I actually went from a 1gb to a 2gb, but yes i experience a slow down, but only when loading areas or games, but the sound it does sometimes starts while playing even though i don't get fps drops, for example with my old gpu it would take max 30s to load the whole Watch Dogs map, and now it takes like 2 minutes and it starts doing the slow down sound. At first it thought it was the cpu fan slowing down but i opened the case and saw both CPU and GPU fans working and heard the noise coming from the HDD. GDDR? what is that? my old one was this one http://www.asus.com/pt/Graphics_Cards/HD7770DC1GD5/ and now i have this one http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270DC2OC2GD5/
 
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noahhicks

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GDDR just refers to the RAM on the graphics card (Graphics DDR).

From what you've described, it suggests to me that your HDD is slowly failing. This can happen slowly as the motor in the HDD slows down, or suddenly.

If this is what is happening, it wouldn't show up in any HDD scans, because the HDD still functions, just at a slower rate. Fortunately for you, this is a slow failure, so you have time to get a replacement and move your data.

This is not an exact science, but best case, if this is what is happening to your HDD, you have anywhere from 1 to 12 months of slower HDD before it completely fails.

HDDs are pretty inexepensive, so it's pretty easy to get a replacement. Once you get a replacement and mirror your current drive to the new one you might be able to RMA the failing drive.

I might just be a coincidence that this started happening at the same time as you changed video cards.

Good luck.
 
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darksiderpt

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Thanks a lot mate, it probably is just coincidence, with that you said, i also thought of something, the games i play now all come at better graphics because i have a better GPU to run then, so maybe i never needed the hard drive to run so fast per minute, so it might just have triggered a problem i already had but never knew. Anyways i'm gonna get a new one tomorrow or tuesday, already browsed a few ones, i'm gonna get the 1Tb version of mine, same 7200 rpm but higher storage and bigger cache.

If that solves the problem i'll let you know, thanks for the attention !
 
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