Let me first say that I am no PC desktop expert, and I am completely baffled by what is wrong with my PC. Secondly, this problem has persisted for around a year (or even more) but until now I haven't had the time nor energy to try tinker around and see what's the matter.
Basically, I have horrific cpu spike problems when playing games. These aren't "lag spikes" (whereby for a second or two everything lags for a bit but you can still move around etc.), these are actually freeze spikes where EVERYTHING stops for around 1-2 seconds. Now this may seem ok if only it doesn't happen every 5-15 seconds, which it does. The problem persists to graphic intensive games including the recently released Battlefield 4. But, it also kills the experience in some other not-so-graphic intensive games like Bioshock Infinite.
In any game where there are pre-rendered cutscenes (or even in-game ones), the problem does a good job to un-sync the audio from what I'm watching, making it painful to sit through.
This all started when I attempted to upgrade my BIOS for my motherboard (ASUS M4N75TD) due to the fact I was having some equally horrible issues with my then graphics card; a GTX 590, which seemed to break down all the time. Not only did the BIOS update not help, I remember (but not entirely certain) that's when the freeze spikes started.
Since then, I've tried re-booting my system, going back to the previous BIOS state, reinstalling windows, virus scan, defrag, bought a new graphics card (currently a GTX 660ti) and cleaned the cpu fan. And still the pain continues.
I've come to the conclusion that I want to buy a new piece of replacement hardware to see if this kills the problem. HOWEVER, I do not want to waste money buying, for instance, a new motherboard and finding out it has done nothing to help.
Therefore, I am asking you fine ladies and gentlemen for advice on what on earth could possible be doing to make my PC behave like a complete dog.
I have uploaded several pictures of my task manager/resource monitor during the event of a freeze spike (using BF4 as the test). I also have the MSI Afterburner application to see what my GPU is doing as well. And as you can see, something unusual is going on...
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qiuusi.png
http://tinypic.com/r/30d9ysh/5
http://i44.tinypic.com/29ux4e9.png
http://i41.tinypic.com/spu05g.png
http://tinypic.com/r/apcodd/5
One final thing to mention, when I am normally playing intensive games, I hear a little buzzing going on somehwere in my computer and I THINK it may be from my hard disk - on that note, please take a look at the "Disk Queue length" graphic of my resource monitor... is this the root of the problem? Or is it just something else which is causing my hard disk and my GPU to spike like that?
Thanks in advance!
Basically, I have horrific cpu spike problems when playing games. These aren't "lag spikes" (whereby for a second or two everything lags for a bit but you can still move around etc.), these are actually freeze spikes where EVERYTHING stops for around 1-2 seconds. Now this may seem ok if only it doesn't happen every 5-15 seconds, which it does. The problem persists to graphic intensive games including the recently released Battlefield 4. But, it also kills the experience in some other not-so-graphic intensive games like Bioshock Infinite.
In any game where there are pre-rendered cutscenes (or even in-game ones), the problem does a good job to un-sync the audio from what I'm watching, making it painful to sit through.
This all started when I attempted to upgrade my BIOS for my motherboard (ASUS M4N75TD) due to the fact I was having some equally horrible issues with my then graphics card; a GTX 590, which seemed to break down all the time. Not only did the BIOS update not help, I remember (but not entirely certain) that's when the freeze spikes started.
Since then, I've tried re-booting my system, going back to the previous BIOS state, reinstalling windows, virus scan, defrag, bought a new graphics card (currently a GTX 660ti) and cleaned the cpu fan. And still the pain continues.
I've come to the conclusion that I want to buy a new piece of replacement hardware to see if this kills the problem. HOWEVER, I do not want to waste money buying, for instance, a new motherboard and finding out it has done nothing to help.
Therefore, I am asking you fine ladies and gentlemen for advice on what on earth could possible be doing to make my PC behave like a complete dog.
I have uploaded several pictures of my task manager/resource monitor during the event of a freeze spike (using BF4 as the test). I also have the MSI Afterburner application to see what my GPU is doing as well. And as you can see, something unusual is going on...
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qiuusi.png
http://tinypic.com/r/30d9ysh/5
http://i44.tinypic.com/29ux4e9.png
http://i41.tinypic.com/spu05g.png
http://tinypic.com/r/apcodd/5
One final thing to mention, when I am normally playing intensive games, I hear a little buzzing going on somehwere in my computer and I THINK it may be from my hard disk - on that note, please take a look at the "Disk Queue length" graphic of my resource monitor... is this the root of the problem? Or is it just something else which is causing my hard disk and my GPU to spike like that?
Thanks in advance!