High end gaming rig, going from 60fps+ to 10 fps for around 10 seconds, how do I fix?

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I have tried nearly every solution to solve this problem. But maybe this might help, how do I fix a random stutter during certain video games? Mainly, Battlefield 4, Farcry 4, Dying light, Skyrim, ect. I have gone so far as to replace my graphics card and ram, reinstall windows, adjust power saving settings, using an optimizer program to limit what windows can do during gaming, as well as directing my cpu's focus to the specific game I am playing. This problem will occur regardless of high or low graphical settings. Please help if you can

Cpu- amd 8320 black edition 8 core
gpu- geforce gtx 960 (before replacement it was a saphire hd radeo 7870)
ram- pny 16gig 1600 (before replacement gskill ripjaw 8 gig)
motherboard- asus 970 extreme 4
power supply- 680 watts
harddrive- 1 terabyte
 
If you are overclocking either the CPU or GPU or both, does it happen when they run at stock speeds? Is everything completely up to date including the drivers, Directx, and Windows update? If you are using the 1TB HDD as the system drive, do you have file compression and/or indexing turned on? Defragmenting? Any AV or malware software installed?

I;m not saying there is anything wrong with your upgrade but if it were me, I would have bought a system SSD before I upgraded to 16 GB of RAM. 8 GB is pretty much enough for modern gaming. Anything over that probably won't be used on a PC playing one game at a time and doing nothing else. An SSD will take some of the stress off the HDD and allow the HDD to just run the game while the SSD loads and runs any system and background processes like AVs, system updates, malware scans, etc.
 
Sounds like a thermal issue. Monitor your CPU and GPU temperatures during gaming, once it drops to low FPS, check your temperatures and see if they are really high (90C +), If this is the issue, your CPU or GPU are protecting themselves by running slow.

Concerning that you replaced your video card and the problems persist, I would suggest investigating CPU temperatures first.

If this is a new build, make sure your fans are spinning correctly, make sure that your heatsink is mounted correctly on your CPU. Make sure that your fan is plugged in.

If it is an older build, make sure the fan/heatsink are free and clear of dust, and that the fan is spinning (fans will die eventually). If dust is the issue, I recommend pulling the fan off, blowing the heatsink out, and making sure the fan is free of dust, and can spin freely.

If temperatures are an issue, and the CPU mount looks good, new thermal paste is applied correctly, fan is spinning as it should, and you are free of dust, you may require a larger CPU cooler. I hear great things from the low priced Cooler Master 212 Hyper EVO style coolers:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

Or Cooler Master 212 Plus:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

Good luck!
 
I should of specified that nothing has ever been overclocked and all temps sit at completely normal ranges if not under. Everything is completely up to date and my computer is clean of all viruses and malware.
 


No dust my friend, and i'm pretty sure i have that cooler
 

You can check the settings for file compression and indexing by going to 'my computer' and right clicking on your hard drive. In the box that pops up, the two options should be on the bottom somewhere with check boxes. Uncheck both. This might speed up your drive a bit. You should also disable any automatic defragmenting scheduling as well as automatic updating of anything. I mentioned updates and AV/malware apps only because running them in the background with a old school HDD will make performance suck, not suggesting you had a virus or something. If anything else is running on the HDD while the game is trying to load a new part of a map, your HDD will become a bottleneck and the game will slow down.