PC stutter/Hard drive dying?

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Hey guys, Im having a few issues with my gaming PC lately: (Gtx 1060, fx 6300, 8gb ddr3 1600mhz ram, 1tb HDD 7200 rpm 64mb cache):

Lately, ive had some pretty serious stuttering on large, open world games, and windows runs very slowly, along with some file errors (which is screaming to me that my HDD is about to die). I did a crystalmarkinfo run, and wanted to post my stats if anyone could give some insight to what they mean. Thanks everyone. I can send a picture of the stats, just not sure how atm. Here are the stats:

Options: 1 GiB , HDD 54% full

Seq Q32T1: Read: 167.2 MB/s Write 140.9 MB/s
4K Q32T1: Read: 0.787 Write: 1.036 MB/s
seq: Read: 26.00 MB/s Write: 99.41 MB/s
4K: Read : 0.245 MB/s Write: 0.952 MB/s
 
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Bumped the computer with a chair, new gtx 1060....

Two new factors either of which or both could now be impacting performance.

However, in light of "healthy" disk diagnosis and only WOW being impacted then I would take a closer look at the new GPU. May not be playing well with WOW. And the stutter in the game could be symptom as well.

Double check the GPU's configuration and reinstall the drivers.

And the new GPU may be defective in some way. Try the old GPU or the built in motherboard graphics. You will not have the same game play experience per se - the objective is to narrow down the possibilities.
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Very possible that the HDD is becoming an issue.

Those stats are important but without some "pre-stuttering baseline" stats or other some relevant values (e.g., benchmarks) for comparison purposes the stats are not diagnostically helpful per se.

Boot your computer and open Performance Monitor and Resource Monitor. See what all is running and what resources etc. are being used accordingly.

Leave those windows open and launch your game(s). Very good chance that you will see some resource or service spike along the way and that spike will correspond with the stuttering.

 
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I followed your advice. What i have found is that when i have a stutter, my hard disk usage is at 100%. Most of the time in my game, (World Of Warcraft), the drive is nearly exclusively locked at 100% disk usage, in which case there is a stutter every few seconds. Does this mean i need a new hard drive?
 
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Very good.

Does not necessarily mean you need a new hard drive.

First it would be prudent to back up your drive and data just in case....

Second, download and run the most recent version of the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic software. Do a health check on the drive. No guarantees per se as devices can and do fail without some warnings.

The stutter is some sort of bottleneck and you have narrowed it down to WOW being run/played. The high drive usage could be simply a software bug in WOW or a "perfect storm" combination of events. I.e., no problem if either one of two programs is running but if both programs are running (one program being WOW) then the stutter occurs.

Take a look at any WOW game configurations that have been established. May be some misconfiguration or a reversal to some default value that is not applicable to your gaming set up...

Check WOW's website: FAQs and Forums. May be some other folks experiencing the same problem.

Update your graphics card drivers.

Keep looking for other processes running in the background. Some update or "phone home" attempt by another app.

Use Task Manager to peek into it all.

And if still nothing you can use Event Viewer. Loork for error codes or warnings in the logs especially any entries that occur just before or at the time of the stutters.
 
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Thank you for your responses thus far. I already previously ran the data lifeguard diagnostic and no problems came back.. But i really couldn't imagine it being anything else. Awhile ago i bumped my computer with my chair, and it froze, and it seems like since then, its been slow. Regardless, it claims that it is healthy. I also have a brand new gtx 1060 in my computer, so i dont think its GPU related. WoW used to run like butter.
 
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Bumped the computer with a chair, new gtx 1060....

Two new factors either of which or both could now be impacting performance.

However, in light of "healthy" disk diagnosis and only WOW being impacted then I would take a closer look at the new GPU. May not be playing well with WOW. And the stutter in the game could be symptom as well.

Double check the GPU's configuration and reinstall the drivers.

And the new GPU may be defective in some way. Try the old GPU or the built in motherboard graphics. You will not have the same game play experience per se - the objective is to narrow down the possibilities.
 
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