PC freezes randomly for a half second (sometimes 1 second).

mrredrock25

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I've bought i new rig with cleaned windows 10 installed..here's the specs:
Motherboard: MSI z170a Gaming pro
CPU: intel i5-6400
GPU: Gigabyte gtx 970 g1 gaming
Memory: Kingston 8GB hyperx ddr4 2666
PSU: Corsair VS 650 watt
HDD: WD Blue 1TB 5400 RPM

the problem is whenever i play any game the computer freezes randomly for a half second or 75.Sec..that's happened with every game i've played so far. even very low-end games with no sound like Tibia (2D game requires very low-end system) still happens alot and the PC is new everything..every driver updated to latest and windows/bios aswell updated to latest and still freeze occurs like before..i've tried some solutions but that didn't solve the issue at all.

1. Changed the GPU i am using to the intel ones included into the CPU "Intel HD 530" but still freezes same.
2. Changed the sata-cable with another new ones (tried 3).
3. Changed the sata-port in motherboard.
4. Formatted the HDD and installed windows 7 but still occurs then back to windows 10 with another full clean format.
5. Ran the PC into full scan.
6. tried to uninstall the GPU driver using DDU aswell for Lan/Sound driver.
7. installed windows 10 and 7 (clean install) serval times.
8. ran memtest86 and no issues.

none of the above solutions helped me to solve the problem at all.

the last thing i want to mention is that freezes still occurs even though the motherboard ran into 3 different bios versions and the GPU ran into like 6 different drivers. please help me i paid so much for this pc in my country.
sorry for being long and for bad english.
 

mrredrock25

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How come it could be PSU that cause the issue? because i get those freezes only into actual gameplay not the whole game itself..like if i start the game but it's still on menu i didn't notice those freezes..apply to all games i've played so far.
 

Andrew1337

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Oh sorry, didn't read all the way up.

Then it's the memory fault. But which I don't know. It could be a HDD issue or Ram. Try to remove one ram stick and launch a game, then do that with the other stick.
It could be HDD fault. If you have a spare HDD or SSD whatever. Try playing a game on that.
You will see which one is bad
 

mrredrock25

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Could be memory issue even after it passed memtest? and can you give me a pro software to test my HDD please?

and thanks for trying to help me.
 

Andrew1337

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Try to swap ram in different slots then. Even after Memtest86 it still could be a ram issue

There is some best free softwares
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html
http://www.hdtune.com/