For the last couple of weeks while gaming my FPS has been pretty inconsistent, and i had these awful audio pops and clicks and static etc. I googled around and found out about Latencymon and started looking into interrupt affinities,
I set my graphics card and usb hubs to different cpu cores and the awful audio problems went away but im still stuck with inconsistent FPS. I've noticed when it happens my GPU usage is dropping very low for the duration of the stutter, and upon further testing i noticed that when I unplug a usb device (in this case my mouse) I can on demand cause these stutters.
I have my temps on display at all times so i know it's not thermal throttling.
I'm thinking it might be RAM related but i did a memtest a few months back and don't recall any RAM issues.
I also think it could be a power supply issue but in Afterburner's hardware monitor I dont see anything pointing to that, but I could be wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any information is need to help narrow this down let me know, thanks.
I set my graphics card and usb hubs to different cpu cores and the awful audio problems went away but im still stuck with inconsistent FPS. I've noticed when it happens my GPU usage is dropping very low for the duration of the stutter, and upon further testing i noticed that when I unplug a usb device (in this case my mouse) I can on demand cause these stutters.
I have my temps on display at all times so i know it's not thermal throttling.
I'm thinking it might be RAM related but i did a memtest a few months back and don't recall any RAM issues.
I also think it could be a power supply issue but in Afterburner's hardware monitor I dont see anything pointing to that, but I could be wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any information is need to help narrow this down let me know, thanks.