Hi folks, new here. I'll try to make this brief. Just built a new computer: relatively modest, but it handles the games I'm interested in (mainly CS: GO) at around 150-250 FPS.
PROBLEM: Occasionally, my game (any game, not just CS) will stutter for half a second. This happens randomly, sometimes every 5 minutes, sometimes every 30 mins. Very small, not that big of a deal, but can mean the difference between life and death in a shooter game.
Furthermore, I checked out my performance monitor and narrowed it down to I THINK an HDD issue. Whenever I stutter, I noticed this peak in my resource monitor (I drew it in, since I don't feel like playing a bunch to get it to stutter, but the peak I drew is identical to what I see) It's on the D: drive.
I was able to (I believe) eliminate the problem by moving my CS GO files from my HDD (D: ) to my SSD (C: ). I now experience no stutter. However, I can't keep ALL my games on my SSD, I mean I bought the HDD to store video games on.
I can't seem to prove that the HDD is to blame though, all the tests I run say it's a healthy drive. It's a WD 1TB BLUE. Where should I go from here?
Thanks!!
PROBLEM: Occasionally, my game (any game, not just CS) will stutter for half a second. This happens randomly, sometimes every 5 minutes, sometimes every 30 mins. Very small, not that big of a deal, but can mean the difference between life and death in a shooter game.
Furthermore, I checked out my performance monitor and narrowed it down to I THINK an HDD issue. Whenever I stutter, I noticed this peak in my resource monitor (I drew it in, since I don't feel like playing a bunch to get it to stutter, but the peak I drew is identical to what I see) It's on the D: drive.
I was able to (I believe) eliminate the problem by moving my CS GO files from my HDD (D: ) to my SSD (C: ). I now experience no stutter. However, I can't keep ALL my games on my SSD, I mean I bought the HDD to store video games on.
I can't seem to prove that the HDD is to blame though, all the tests I run say it's a healthy drive. It's a WD 1TB BLUE. Where should I go from here?
Thanks!!
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