Periodic freezing issue

Looks quite impressive and my first guesses are thrown out. I've seen disk drives and MOBO cause this but I think that is ruled out. Since you have a second card on the way try that card out in a separate PCI slot and remove the original card first as you state. The fact that it is occurring in 2 of 4 games puts more weight on it being the video card than anything else. No two games are written the same and these two may use more or less of certain features, DX 10 VS DX 11 VS.

I don't know the frame rates that you are running at. You may try to lower the FPS as a test to see if the problem resolves itself. You're on the right path to solving the issue though.

1. The Hyper 212 is kinda outta place on that build ..... I generally only use that in builds under $1,000 so I'm curious as to what temps you are showing. I don't think that's the problem given the games in question but just to rule it out, run these two and post your results.

RoG Real Bench Stress test 15 minutes
Furmark 30 minutes

2. Let's look in Event Viewer at the System and Application logs for any messages about the time of your rubberbanding.

3. 64 GB is kinda small for an OS drive. Would suggest moving temp files and page file to another drive.

4, Play the game in windowed mode at 1920 x 1000, with task manager loaded and at the bottom of your screen. Rank the items in the process tab by CPU Usage (click on COPY column header) and move most the TM window down off the bottom of screen so you can see the top 5 or 6 programs in that 80 pixel space below the game window. The game should be 1st in the list.... if something is jumping in and stealing COPU time, yu should see it jump tot he top of the list for a few seconds. Identify whatever it is.

5. What order are the drives connected in BIOS / MoBo. General rule is....

Boot Drive = Lowest numbered Intel SATA Port
Games Drive = 2nd lowest numbered Intel SATA Port
Applications / Data Drive = 3rd lowest numbered Intel SATA Port
Backups Drive = 4th lowest numbered Intel SATA Port
Opticals

6. Yes, I would test without the sound card and sound card drivers uninstalled. If ya gonna use the on board, don't want the card drivers installed and visa versa.

7. Check MoBo Manual for RAM placement

8. Run OCCT GPU and CPU tests ... does same thing as many other utilities but useful because it graphs the voltage on each rail ..... look for % variation on 3.3, 5 and 12 volt rails over say 30 minutes. Is PSU fan going on under load. Anything > 5% violates the ATX standard .... you don't want > 2.5% for moderate overclocking ..... or > 1% if looking for maximum 24/7 OCs.

9. Is anything OC'd if so I imagine you tries stock settings ?

10. Anything going on network wise ? Downloading ? On line activity ? That slow / speed up thing is called "rubberbanding" when it is related to internet connection.

1. Air coolers kick butt across the board on CLC type liquid coolers across every price range. But the Hyper 212 is always described as a great budget cooler .... meaning it's a great cooler for budget builds. It's also very easy to over tighten the clamping mechanism and break your $200 MoBo. A $60 Phanteks for example would drop your temps by 7 - 10C.

4. Then by all means put the utilities up on the 2nd screen. However, also try using Windowed rather than full screen mode. I have seen this "solve problems" of may types but have no idea why.

6. I knew from original post that you physically removed the card; wasn't sure if you removed the drivers as well.

7. Best avoid that .... puts double the load on the memory controller, increases heat and negatively impacts overclocking .... 4 x 8Gb next time around.

I used to use the Hyper 212 in builds up to about $1,250 in cost..... with the Phanteks now selling usually at $60, I haven been able to get it into $1,050 builds. Here's my rule of thumb.

$30 - Hyper 212, beats everything in its price range

$60 - Phanteks PH-TC14PE - beats everything including all CLCs in it's price range

$100 - Noctua DH-15 - beats everything including all CLCs in it's price range

$140 - Swiftech H220-X / 240X beats everything on market including all CLCs in it's price range requires custom water loops to top it.

With Furmark, the only thing we are interested in is GPU temp as shown on the screen at the end of 30 minutes

With RoG Real Bench, ya wanna run the Stress Tests not the Benchmark .... the only thing we are interested in is CPU maximum core temps temps at the end of 15 minutes. GPU load is irrelevant s the GPU is not being put under much load.

If ya want to record actual min max and average values, you'll need a utility to do so. If you don't have it already, grab HWiNFO64 to record core temps (install and run "sensors only").

http://www.hwinfo.com/files/hw64_450.exe

That image doesn't tell me anything as I can't mouse over or read anything (is that max - 60C ?). Where are you getting stuck w/ hardware info .... downloading, installing loading, reading ?

1. Start here: http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
2. Click on download installer / (local US for me)
3. Download the exe file to your desktop or location of your preference.
4. Double click on the hw42_450.exe file
5. Click Run
6. Click Finish leaving the Start HWinFO64 boc checked
7. Select "Sensors Only"
8. Click Continue if you get a pop iup asking if ya want anything disabled
9. Scroll down to the 3rd section and you will see thermometer icons with Core 0, Core 1, Core 2, etc
10 These have Current, Minimum, Maximum and Average columns ... you highest of the 6 Core Temps in the Maximum column is the one ya want.

If MSI AB is accurate, and I'm reading it right, 60C is no concern.