Freezing/ Frame drops at seemingly random intervals on most games.

[Herausstr]

Hello everyone.
My issue is while playing games there will be at time of high animation count, loading a new area, ect ect. frames drop considerably and the game locks up for 1-3 seconds. This problem only occurred recently and i have so far tried replacing ram, motherboard, and HDD, clean installed windows, and countless other suggested fixes to no avail. I have also done several comprehensive virus scans and found nothing.
Also worth noting; CPU usage averages around 30's-70% while on a game, temps usually stay around 40C-60C in game and average around 27C-45C while idle. Also whenever there is a freeze up the 2TB drive has a spike in activity. Any help that can be provided will be more than appreciated.

My Computer Specs.

CPU - I5-3570K @3.40
Mobo - Asus p8h61-i r2.0
GPU - Nvidia 760
Ram - 16Gb DDR3
PSU - 540W
Storage Devices - 1xSSD @120Gb
1xHDD @2TB WD Blue Caviar
1xHDD @320GB WD Blue Caviar

 

[burgessanthony]

Hmmm. The hdd spike points to read speeds causing fps drops. Page file shouldn't be accessed with 16gb ram unless you have a lot of other stuff open?

Is the game on the ssd? The pagefile should also be on thrre as well.

 

[Herausstr]

Hmmm. The hdd spike points to read speeds causing fps drops. Page file shouldn't be accessed with 16gb ram unless you have a lot of other stuff open?

Is the game on the ssd? The pagefile should also be on thrre as well.

I have tried putting games on all three of the storage devices with the same results. also i try and keep programs running to a minimum such as only the game running with no other major programs also running. Also what do you exactly mean by pagefile?

 

[Nuwan Fernando]

Page file is the virtual RAM created on the HDD as a file. When you run out of memory this'll be used for the overflowed data. Since you have 16GB RAM, it's unlikely you ran out of all 16GB Memory. Are you running on 1080p?

 

[Herausstr]

I run on 720p using a 32in TV as a monitor.