Stutter ? Lag When music player switches music from local hard drive

evilintheflesh

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Hi Everyone, My first post on tom's hardware , hope everyone's doing great =)

My PC specs :

Operating System :
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

CPU: AMD FX-8350 31 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology

RAM: 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (10-10-10-27)

Motherboard : Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. 990FXA-UD3 R5 (CPU 1) 41 °C

Graphics :
DELL IN2020M (1600x900@60Hz)
W1643 (1360x768@60Hz)
1024MB ATI AMD Radeon R7 200 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 50 °C

Storage: 931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA) 37 °C


The issue I've been facing is that whenever the local music player : Musicbee for me changes music, ie plays the next track on the playlist, there's a consistent stutter in every online game i play , mostly MOBAS, the games i play are not very demanding but lose connection / Freeze exactly when the music player switches to the next track , :D , My music plays off my hard drive. Another question, After switching to the 8350 i haven't really noticed the improvement in speeds in daily computer usage, a lot of background apps are scheduled when i start up my PC but i've gotten rid of everything i don't need . When i start up chrome, its not snappy, switching to tabs isn't snappy, starting up of any application is very delayed considering the specs I'm running. I did some research on this a while back and what i made of it was that AMD setups don't work well in single channel ram. Could it be my 8 gig ram running in single channel at a low speed (800mhz), me using poorly optimized applications that only use one core of my processor :| or Idk, I'm not a "noob" per say when it comes to computers and I've gone through the basic, bloatware/adware running in the background routine, Used Rogue Killer, Monitor system activity : No loads on Network / Hard disc / CPU usage when idle.

Thanks for your help =)
 

miggtt699

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Check for Hard Drive activity. Single channel memory? Don't think that has much to do with it, but I stand to be corrected.

If the hard drive is always full load or on a very high load, check what's causing it and disable it from start up or config the app in order not to use that much of your hard drive.
 

evilintheflesh

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There's no idle activity on the hard disk it spikes when an application is opened.
 

miggtt699

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Try using other music players. Why don't you have your memory running at a more comfortable speed? Say 1333Mhz? Or is that the stock speed that it came with?