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Hey, guys! :)

So I'm currently using 2 SSDs on my system. One is a very old Kingston V200 120GB on which I have a Windows 8.1 installed and the other is a brand new Intel 535 240GB SSD.

I'm playing World of Warcraft and when I run the game from the Intel SSD, I have a very annoying micro stutter often when new stuff loads in the game. It could happen when I see a new mob, loot a monster, open my map, my character pannel, just any time something new has to load up. The only other game I've tested on this SSD is Diablo 3 and I don't seem to have the problem there. I'm downloading CS:GO right now to test it on a shooter too.

Now once I move the WoW installation on the old Kingston SSD I don't have this problem. I don't see the logic here...
 
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Hey there, Kaewi.

You shouldn't have that kind of issues with an SSD. I've played WoW on a laptop with a 5400RPM HDD without such a problem. It's good that you've tried the game with a different drive, this way you were able to isolate the problem and exclude other components as possible culprits (like RAM and GPU).

I'd recommend that you try the drive with a different SATA port and different SATA cables (if it's the SATA model, or a different M.2 slot), to see if the same thing happens. you should also check if there's any available firmware update for that SSD model. Downloading an SSD diagnostic tool, to test the drive for errors might also prove helpful.

Please let me know how everything goes.
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Hey there, Kaewi.

You shouldn't have that kind of issues with an SSD. I've played WoW on a laptop with a 5400RPM HDD without such a problem. It's good that you've tried the game with a different drive, this way you were able to isolate the problem and exclude other components as possible culprits (like RAM and GPU).

I'd recommend that you try the drive with a different SATA port and different SATA cables (if it's the SATA model, or a different M.2 slot), to see if the same thing happens. you should also check if there's any available firmware update for that SSD model. Downloading an SSD diagnostic tool, to test the drive for errors might also prove helpful.

Please let me know how everything goes.
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Hello.

Thank you for the answer!

I tried switching SATA ports, but not another cable. I'm using the standard brand new 6gb/s cables that came with the motherboard. I also downloaded the software for Intel SSDs and it says the drive is at full health and latest firmware.

Last night I tested CS:GO which is a lot more dynamic game, but I couldn't reproduce the problem. Diablo 3 also doesn't have it. For now I will keep WoW on my other SSD.

A lot of people seem to have micro stutter problems with WoW. It seems it's either storage related or cpu power savings related. In my case turning off the CPU power saving features did nothing.
 
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I see, well even if the cables are new, it still might be a faulty cable, although it seems like it's probably OK since you're having issues with a single game. It might be a game issue, wait for another update and try it out again. I personally haven't played it since January so I can't really check if I'd have the same issue with the current patch, although you don't seem to be having that problem with the other SSD. Anyway, please let me know if you figure it out. :)
 
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I did figure it out.

Turns out it was the SSD. The Intel 535 uses a Sandforce controller, which is still a very buggy controller, unsuitable for games. These kind of SSDs compress data in real time, which in turn leads to these kinds of problems. Completely unusable SSD.

I returned it, got a big mechanical disk, since at this point I didn't want to bother looking for another SSD and have no problems now.

For anyone that reads this, do not buy SSDs with Sandforce controllers.
 
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