[SOLVED] I've Had it With This PC

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(I've made a thread about this on the LTT forums and no one could think of a solution, I'm stopping by here to see if I could maybe get a chance here.)
Before starting this post, I need to apologize because I've posted about this PC before and you all gave me good suggestions but doing after all of them I simply became aggravated with it and just quit with diagnosing it and just continued using it.

I've built this PC around June of 2017 and here was the parts list:

Ryzen 5 1600

MSI A320 Mother Board

16 GB of Crucial Ballistix Ram 2133

Zotac GTX 1070

WD 250BG SSD

WD Caviar Black 1TB

Cryorg H7

Corsair Carbide 100R

EVGA 450B PSU

You know a pretty good PC, but when I finished installing windows and installed all the drivers and what not it was horrible. I stuttered in literally every game. (Aparently there was a dirver I was missing for the first few months the AM4 drivers.) After installing that everything was a lot better.

But it wasn't perfect.

There were a few things that would happen with this PC:

- There would be a 1/20 chance when opening file explorer it would say "working on it for about 5-10 seconds" before actually showing my drives.

- YouTube would SKIP frames and stutter (especially on my second monitor) and for what ever reason on my second monitor if I try to forward the video by one second, it would give me a loading pinwheel for about five seconds, even though it has CLEARLY buffered the video. Doesn't happen all the time though.

- On OSU, (mainly in song selection and edit mode) it would skip frames and stutter, and would be most noticeable from the timeline on top of the screen when it's automatically playing the song.

- In League it would skip frames, it's not too noticeable unless you are really looking for it so it's not too bad but it's quite annoying.

- If I try to stream league my frame rate drops drastically, so I just quit that.

- YouTube thumbnails would take a second or two to actually load rather than it loading instantly.

- For what ever reason Minecraft is just a stuttering mess for the first like 3 minutes (idk I don't play that much but enough to mention it.)

- And simply micro stuttering on most games that I play on occasion from steam.

-Editing on Sony Vegas is simply a hassle, trying to Pan/Crop would slow down to almost a hault if there is too many things on the timeline.

Here is what I've tried:

- Swapped out Ram for something that was on the RAM compatibility list for my motherboard (I didn't know that was a thing). Switched to Corsair Value Select that was on the list and didn't fix the issue. (Also started to make my PC blue screen after a month I got it so that ended up as a DOA.)

- Swapped out the motherboard to a GIGABYTE GA-AB350M (ended up keeping) and that didn't fix the issue.

- I reinstalled windows to different drives so see if that was the issue and booting of off them. That didn't work.

- Disconnected other drives except the windows one.

- Someone mentioning that my PSU wattage was too low, so I ordered a Corsair CX650M, nu-uh. (Kept it though it looked nice.)

- I knew it wasn't my GTX 1070 because I got it before everything else so I installed it in my old PC before I got everything else and it wasn't giving me any of these issues.

- Bought a i7-7700t and a B250 board (I know my mistake should have gotten a different chipset) and even after THAT it didn't work.

- Removed the 1070 and used intel HD graphics (didn't have a spare card) and that didn't work.

- I've switched modems between both my new and old PC's and that wasn't causing the issue.



I've literally replaced my entire PC and it wasn't solving my issue, temps are not the problem, I've installed windows a million times after trying each attempt, I know my RAM is a bit slow but it shouldn't be causing these kinds of issues where it struggles on WINDOWS. Help me please. I'm trying to be as detailed as possible. Thank you for reading.
 
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What is your PC now? I see many hardware changes... But not sure if you're running your initial PC list or edited.

I'm going to try help you a bit... But even I'm not sure. (Not sure if anyone will try help really, this is a headache of a problem)

Have you tried moving your PC to another room? Is it possible you have some sort of electrical interference? Do you have a subwoofer near your system? (A couple of times in the past this was a solution to similar problem)

I would though... Tell you to run at least a 550w PSU. The 450w is only getting in the way of figuring this out. (You need to have enough power to run all of your components, otherwise, why even try and diagnose. You've got to upgrade this and keep it upgraded.)...
What is your PC now? I see many hardware changes... But not sure if you're running your initial PC list or edited.

I'm going to try help you a bit... But even I'm not sure. (Not sure if anyone will try help really, this is a headache of a problem)

Have you tried moving your PC to another room? Is it possible you have some sort of electrical interference? Do you have a subwoofer near your system? (A couple of times in the past this was a solution to similar problem)

I would though... Tell you to run at least a 550w PSU. The 450w is only getting in the way of figuring this out. (You need to have enough power to run all of your components, otherwise, why even try and diagnose. You've got to upgrade this and keep it upgraded.)



Really... Uhm... Ryzen 1600 is very touchy. A b350 board with a 3000mhz Ram is recommended.... Because of these reasons. And there's even a list of compatible Ram, this is very well known. You running an a320 with 2133mhz leads to problems. And from what I remember, wrong Ram was what was a main cause of microstutter in r1600
 
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The build I have now is: i7-7700t, MSI B250 PC MATE, Crucial 16GB kit 2133mhz DDR4(Right now i have 8GB I let a friend borrow a stick), WD Blue 250Gb SSD, 1TB Caviar Black, and 4TB Caviar Blue.
CX650M PSU, GTX 1070

As for the low Ram Speed, I did OC as far as a I can (2800mhz) and none of those issues were resolved. On both AMD boards I tried. Used a higher wattage PSU, I tried different outlets, but they were in the same room. The room I'm in right now doesn't have any outlets and I have to use an exention to use the outlets in the other room. (That what I had to do with my old PC aswell.) I don't have a subwoofer.

Although I haven't physically tried a different room I'll try that and let you know.
 
Try a different monitor/tv. You could be experiencing refresh rate problems. How about vsync in Nvidia panel? I think they have that, I use AMD GPUs, so I can't tell you where to go on your control panel, but I think they have some sort of vsync they can cause that as well.

Your Windows power settings, Nvidia power settings as well as bios power settings ===> performance set.
 
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I don't know the exact duty rating, but I upgraded my previous frail extention cord to a "Hyper Tough" cable, I don't have the packaging for it anymore so unfortunently I can't telly you the rating, I also switched my power strip, to something more stable, It was 1560 Joules (I don't really know that that means.) As for the Ram, I only gave him the stick a few weeks ago, all these issues have been happening a long time ago. And yes I've been on a copy of Windows for thew new parts, I did do a fresh install when I went from Ryzen to Intel.
 
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I don't think it's a monitor issue, because I haven't switched my monitor from my old PC to my New one but I'll try regardless, I have a 4k TV in the other room so I'll try that,