Hi guys, Basically i've been having this issue for some time now ~ 6 Months. I've looked all around for fixes, and it seems like a somewhat common problem, but I can't seem to find a convincing solution, and don't want to have to spend money where I don't have to. (Student = Poor)
Noticing lag whilst gaming, playing games like WoW, SC2, COD4 and other popular games.
Basically my game will run perfectly at 200-250FPS at maximum native resolution (1680x1050) Until around every minute or so, I will notice the frame rate reduce by around 75% of normal, to like 70-90FPS, and during these around, 10-15 seconds the gameplay is very choppy and makes the game hard to play. I recently found out that PSU's are actually important, and you shouldn't skimp out when buying one, however I never realised and just bought budget PSU's for all my systems in the past, however this is the only time i've encountered issues, so before I buy a new one, I thought I would seek some informed help.
Now my build is as follows:
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit (Running DX11)
AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 940, 3GHZ (15x200)
ASRock N68C-S UCC Motherboard
Palit NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1024/MB)
Hitachi SATA 500GB and a Hitachi SATA 120GB Hard drives
4GB 667 Kingston DDR2 RAM
550W WinPower PSU
When stressed whilst gaming, CPU Temperatures are around 45degrees and GPU is at around 55degrees.
Any Advice is greatly appreciated Thanks, Sam.
Noticing lag whilst gaming, playing games like WoW, SC2, COD4 and other popular games.
Basically my game will run perfectly at 200-250FPS at maximum native resolution (1680x1050) Until around every minute or so, I will notice the frame rate reduce by around 75% of normal, to like 70-90FPS, and during these around, 10-15 seconds the gameplay is very choppy and makes the game hard to play. I recently found out that PSU's are actually important, and you shouldn't skimp out when buying one, however I never realised and just bought budget PSU's for all my systems in the past, however this is the only time i've encountered issues, so before I buy a new one, I thought I would seek some informed help.
Now my build is as follows:
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit (Running DX11)
AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 940, 3GHZ (15x200)
ASRock N68C-S UCC Motherboard
Palit NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1024/MB)
Hitachi SATA 500GB and a Hitachi SATA 120GB Hard drives
4GB 667 Kingston DDR2 RAM
550W WinPower PSU
When stressed whilst gaming, CPU Temperatures are around 45degrees and GPU is at around 55degrees.
Any Advice is greatly appreciated Thanks, Sam.