Current set up is a few years old now, but used to handle most games relatively well. Witcher 3 used to run great once the hair thing was disabled!
Then, recently I began noticing random stuttering during browsing, especially on sites with loads of flash ads. Now, it's very prominent when playing games, such as the new BF1 (single player). It's almost unplayable, and not really affected much by graphics quality changes (obviously Ultra settings cause more consistently poor frame rates, but the difference between low and med is minimal).
During a game the computer will be fine for a few seconds, maybe a minute, then hang, for maybe 5-10 seconds, then get back into 50+fps, then hang/stutter again after maybe 1 or 2 minutes; sometimes much more often.
I noticed that the CPU was running pretty hot; around 80-85 degrees, so I removed it, cleaned the huge amount of dust in the heat sink, applied new thermal paste and fired it up again. Now it runs at 63(ish) under load. Not great, but ambient temps are 34+ degrees. But still the same stuttering.
I guess my question is, would the i3 Ivy Bridge be showing it's age with newer games? Or could the lack of RAM be causing issues?
GPU runs cool, at about 60% capacity during BF1, so I doubt it is that. Memory is a bit poor, though, and there isn't much unused during gaming. New GPU drivers installed. Could do with a Windows reformat...
Specs are:
i3 3220
MSI GTX 960 2gb
8Gb DDR3 1300mhz
Asus P8Z77-V LX
SSD+HDD
Win 7
Edit: Unigine Valley seems to run fine with 0 of these random stutters...
Then, recently I began noticing random stuttering during browsing, especially on sites with loads of flash ads. Now, it's very prominent when playing games, such as the new BF1 (single player). It's almost unplayable, and not really affected much by graphics quality changes (obviously Ultra settings cause more consistently poor frame rates, but the difference between low and med is minimal).
During a game the computer will be fine for a few seconds, maybe a minute, then hang, for maybe 5-10 seconds, then get back into 50+fps, then hang/stutter again after maybe 1 or 2 minutes; sometimes much more often.
I noticed that the CPU was running pretty hot; around 80-85 degrees, so I removed it, cleaned the huge amount of dust in the heat sink, applied new thermal paste and fired it up again. Now it runs at 63(ish) under load. Not great, but ambient temps are 34+ degrees. But still the same stuttering.
I guess my question is, would the i3 Ivy Bridge be showing it's age with newer games? Or could the lack of RAM be causing issues?
GPU runs cool, at about 60% capacity during BF1, so I doubt it is that. Memory is a bit poor, though, and there isn't much unused during gaming. New GPU drivers installed. Could do with a Windows reformat...
Specs are:
i3 3220
MSI GTX 960 2gb
8Gb DDR3 1300mhz
Asus P8Z77-V LX
SSD+HDD
Win 7
Edit: Unigine Valley seems to run fine with 0 of these random stutters...
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