So I just put together a new computer, everything is new except for the hard drive, here's the parts as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 2.13GHz
Gigabyte GA 965P DS3
1 gig corsair ddr2 800
Antec Truepower II 550 watt psu
XFX 7600gt
250gig Western digital hard drive (2-3 years old)
So here's the problem, the computer seems to just be randomly hanging. For example, I'll open a program and it will just sit there for a minute or 2 doing nothing at all, then after that it'll start loading. Now when its doing this the processor is not working at all until its done hanging, it basically does nothing at all. Another example of this is when I'll be playing a video game, graphics all out as high as they go and it'll run perfect (doesn't even heat up the cpu or the video card) but every minute or so my framerates will drop like a brick and it will become unplayable for a minute or 2. Another example is sometimes I'll exit a game and it'll close out and go to windows, but I'll still hear the sound from the game and its process will still be going, it'll be like this for a minute or 2 also then it will fully close out. And yet another example would be if i'm installing something it will be progressing steadily then it will just sit there and do nothing for a few minutes, no processor resources being used up at all, then it'll start working again.
Sorry for all the examples but it helps get my point accross. Now, could it be the hard drive since its fairly old? Or do hard drives not really deteriorate over time. I don't know much about hard drives but it almost seems like a caching issue or something, but who knows, I don't really know what i'm talking about. So, what do you think the problem could be? Thanks for any help.
Edit: By the way, all my drivers are updated to the latest versions.
Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 2.13GHz
Gigabyte GA 965P DS3
1 gig corsair ddr2 800
Antec Truepower II 550 watt psu
XFX 7600gt
250gig Western digital hard drive (2-3 years old)
So here's the problem, the computer seems to just be randomly hanging. For example, I'll open a program and it will just sit there for a minute or 2 doing nothing at all, then after that it'll start loading. Now when its doing this the processor is not working at all until its done hanging, it basically does nothing at all. Another example of this is when I'll be playing a video game, graphics all out as high as they go and it'll run perfect (doesn't even heat up the cpu or the video card) but every minute or so my framerates will drop like a brick and it will become unplayable for a minute or 2. Another example is sometimes I'll exit a game and it'll close out and go to windows, but I'll still hear the sound from the game and its process will still be going, it'll be like this for a minute or 2 also then it will fully close out. And yet another example would be if i'm installing something it will be progressing steadily then it will just sit there and do nothing for a few minutes, no processor resources being used up at all, then it'll start working again.
Sorry for all the examples but it helps get my point accross. Now, could it be the hard drive since its fairly old? Or do hard drives not really deteriorate over time. I don't know much about hard drives but it almost seems like a caching issue or something, but who knows, I don't really know what i'm talking about. So, what do you think the problem could be? Thanks for any help.
Edit: By the way, all my drivers are updated to the latest versions.