Since reinstalling windows on my fresh SSD and installing my game and the addons, I have noticed that after playing for maybe an hour, it froze and started to stop responding. It did this for about 20 seconds then went back to normal and about 10 seconds later, it froze up again. Frustrated, in the little time I had, I saved my game and rebooted my PC, this gave me about 30 minutes before it started the freezing and unfreezing process. Then I went to watch a livestream and in the ad, it started freezing and unfreezing but on a smaller level, where it would stop for 10 seconds then go for 5 seconds. This is making games unplayable and videos unwatchable. Something that I noticed was my desktop was black and previously before playing my game I could left click and drag and that would erase the desktop. But then later I just set my desktop photo again and my desktop was fine.
Games/Videos freeze for several seconds every 5-20 seconds
- Thread starter seaniez
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Ok I found something that sort of peaked my interest. I was just looking at HWMonitor and my clock speeds seem to be staying at 800 MHz with one core going up to maybe 2000 MHz. It goes up to 4500 MHz for a split second then goes down to 800 MHz again. The package is at 78 Degrees Fahrenheit so I really do not thing it's thermal throttling. Currently I'm installing 2 programs at the same time so I'd expect it to be a bit higher than that.
All of the cores stay at 800 MHz mostly and then sometimes one or two different cores goes up and down but it seems to be staying at 800 MHz. But it can't be going bad as it is a brand new i7-7700k I got less than a week ago. It's not a single core that is doing all the work the entire time, it could be core #1 at one point or core #3, any core could rise in clock speed at any time
That's how it should be; if whatever you're doing doesn't require the CPU's full power, it'll sit mostly idle and spike a core or two to handle whatever the program needs. The CPU doesn't sit at full speed all the time; that'd wear it out much faster and would generate a lot of unnecessary heat.
Your CPU seems to be working fine. What GPU do you have?
Your CPU seems to be working fine. What GPU do you have?
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