I have recently noticed a distinct clicking/arcing sounds when playing Witcher 3 (quiter sound on other games but more prevalent on W3)
The sound starts when the game is playing but disappears when it enters menus such as inventory.
I took the PC to the shop that built it and they tested everything, including waterpump, GTX1080 FE, mother board but not the HDD.
When I returned home, I ignored the noise but then encountered FPS drops every 5 - 10 seconds or so on any game. I checked task manager and found my HDD was constantly up around 80 - 100% usage. I googled this problem and found solutions including disabling Windows Search, BIT, superfetch, pagesys etc. I tried all this but the sound is still there, the FPS drop still occurs and the HDD is now at 50-100% usage.
I am at a loss on what the issue is, I have even re-installed windows and it is still there. Any help?
p.s the other notable occurance was I upgraded to a 1080 end of May, but it played fine for a whole month and only recently (1st week of June) had this problem.
i7 - 5820k
4TB HD Seagate
GTX1080
Gigabyte X99 SLI
16GB 2133hz RAM
The sound starts when the game is playing but disappears when it enters menus such as inventory.
I took the PC to the shop that built it and they tested everything, including waterpump, GTX1080 FE, mother board but not the HDD.
When I returned home, I ignored the noise but then encountered FPS drops every 5 - 10 seconds or so on any game. I checked task manager and found my HDD was constantly up around 80 - 100% usage. I googled this problem and found solutions including disabling Windows Search, BIT, superfetch, pagesys etc. I tried all this but the sound is still there, the FPS drop still occurs and the HDD is now at 50-100% usage.
I am at a loss on what the issue is, I have even re-installed windows and it is still there. Any help?
p.s the other notable occurance was I upgraded to a 1080 end of May, but it played fine for a whole month and only recently (1st week of June) had this problem.
i7 - 5820k
4TB HD Seagate
GTX1080
Gigabyte X99 SLI
16GB 2133hz RAM