Recent content by whitegarden

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    FPS drops under CPU load

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    FPS drops under CPU load

    any guides for a noob you could share for how to optimize my cpu? would overclocking help this problem? are there any other factors that could cause fps drops besides my cpu and gpu?
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    FPS drops under CPU load

    the only component that hasn't been a variable over the past 4 years has been my PSU. Is it at all possible it's causing problems?
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    FPS drops under CPU load

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    FPS drops under CPU load

    So I've had a problem with games periodically dropping to 10-15 frames intermittently during gameplay. Whenever it would occur, I would check HWMonitor and almost always one of, if not several of the cores would be hitting 100%. I had this problem with an A10-5800K on a Gigabyte AMD FM2 A85X. I...
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    Is my CPU causing my computer to lag?

    Hello, I need help identifying the source and type of lag on my computer. I first noticed it while using Ableton Live. Wen playing audio on the timeline, randomly for about a second my mouse will freeze and audio will stop. I thought it was a problem with the program but then the same thing...
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    more space after blue screen of death

    interesting. so the ONLY way to delete the page file is to format the drive, and this is a problem of all SSDs?
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    more space after blue screen of death

    umm...booting to the bios and waiting a few minutes worked, but whenever i don't boot to the bios and start the computer normally, the drive says it has 1GB free space again, which also fluctuates between 500MB and 2GB randomly. i tried to update the firmware of the SSD but it said it was up to...
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    more space after blue screen of death

    i have a 64gb SSD that my OS is installed on. even though i installed every possible program and kept every file on a secondary drive, it seemed to keep filling up on its own. disk cleanups and defrags only seemed to delay the inevitable. while it was at a little over 1GB of free space, i...
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    Should I install a second OS on a separate hard drive?

    cool, thanks! guess i'll start trying to figure out how to do it now
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    Should I install a second OS on a separate hard drive?

    I built a pc and installed Windows 7 to a 60GB SSD and use a 1TB HDD to store the majority of my applications and files (whatever doesn't need to be on the main drive). I recently started going to school for audio production and we have to use Pro Tools, which must be installed on the drive that...