I've had my FX-8150 for almost 4 years now and it's been running great, causing no problems at all. It's been running overclocked from 3.6 to 4 GHz for the past 3 years.
Two days ago, I restarted my PC and suddenly I had extreme stutter in games like CS:GO and Overwatch.
First I thought it was my GPU but after reinstalling it's software (I have a GTX 960) and some testing, I found out that the stutter only happened when I moved the mouse (2 months old mouse, a ROG Gladius).
I reinstalled the mouse software (ROG Armoury) and created a new profile in it but this didn't help either. Lowering the polling rate in the mouse software seems to help but I have to put it all the way down to 250 or lower for games to playable (I've been running with 1000 polling rate since I got this mouse without any problems).
When moving the mouse around on my desktop, I can see that the CPU usage increases with 10-20% so something is wrong..
Today I removed my CPU overclock (reset to stock speed) and when running a game with no other programs running, it works great but as soon as I start up a program like Mumble or Chrome, the stutter returns and it seems that the more programs I run, the worse it gets.
What I'd like to know is, is the CPU dying? If yes, which other AM3 CPU should I invest in? If no, what can I do to fix this stuttering problem?
I need to be able to run extra programs while I play, just like I could a few days ago..
Two days ago, I restarted my PC and suddenly I had extreme stutter in games like CS:GO and Overwatch.
First I thought it was my GPU but after reinstalling it's software (I have a GTX 960) and some testing, I found out that the stutter only happened when I moved the mouse (2 months old mouse, a ROG Gladius).
I reinstalled the mouse software (ROG Armoury) and created a new profile in it but this didn't help either. Lowering the polling rate in the mouse software seems to help but I have to put it all the way down to 250 or lower for games to playable (I've been running with 1000 polling rate since I got this mouse without any problems).
When moving the mouse around on my desktop, I can see that the CPU usage increases with 10-20% so something is wrong..
Today I removed my CPU overclock (reset to stock speed) and when running a game with no other programs running, it works great but as soon as I start up a program like Mumble or Chrome, the stutter returns and it seems that the more programs I run, the worse it gets.
What I'd like to know is, is the CPU dying? If yes, which other AM3 CPU should I invest in? If no, what can I do to fix this stuttering problem?
I need to be able to run extra programs while I play, just like I could a few days ago..
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