Could a faulty hard drive be the root to my fps problems?

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Vincent Gupta

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I have recently purchased a new motherboard, new ram, a new gpu, and a new cpu and I still have frame drop issues in games that I should be able to run easily (like league of legends.)

Specs :

HDD : Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive
CPU: Amd fx8350
Ram: Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3
Motherboard : Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Socket AM3 Motherboard
GPU : Nvidia gtx 760

https://gyazo.com/5f9c4ca6b9dc915e5719665c34c4f913

Here is a picture of an HDtune test.
 
Solution
photonboy
You should run some DIAGNOSTICS on the hard drive.

I did run the same test with the same program and don't get large dips even on the quickest test with the lowest file size (in fact I've NEVER seen that in the years previous though I'm not an expert). Peak-to-peak variance was roughly 10% of my max speed (about 12MB/second).

My MINIMUM is just below half of my maximum.
124.7MBps max
56.5MBps min

My CPU usage is also only 3% (i7-3770K). Your CPU usage seems a little high even if the Intel chipset is more efficient and your HDD a bit faster.
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mrmez

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Is HDtune like a stress/speed test/bench?
If so, you'd expect a fairly flat curve (generally slowing a bit).

If so, there looks to be an issue. Transfer rate is all over the place. Minimum rate should be maybe 20%? lower than the average, with no major spikes or drops.

Time for an SSD I think.
 
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photonboy

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Most games have their data buffered into the system and video memory and rarely access the HDD or SSD that the game is on.

The HDD can actually cause problems if it starts to fail and causes the system to freeze though.

Other than SWAPPING to a new drive though (maybe clone with Machrium Reflect Free) I don't know what else to suggest.
 
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You should run some DIAGNOSTICS on the hard drive.

I did run the same test with the same program and don't get large dips even on the quickest test with the lowest file size (in fact I've NEVER seen that in the years previous though I'm not an expert). Peak-to-peak variance was roughly 10% of my max speed (about 12MB/second).

My MINIMUM is just below half of my maximum.
124.7MBps max
56.5MBps min

My CPU usage is also only 3% (i7-3770K). Your CPU usage seems a little high even if the Intel chipset is more efficient and your HDD a bit faster.
 
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mrmez

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His transfer rates are a fair bit faster than yours, and probably underestimating how significant the Intel advantage is, so I'd think CPU usage is normal.

As you said, you had very little variation, and if we call your min 45% of max, OP's min is just 0.05% of max, and it's hitting this for at least 15% of the bench.
Gotta be the HDD. Games load a lot into ram, but if there are significant periods where the drive just isn't working, it's going to cause issues sooner or later.
 
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