Microstutters every few minutes or so

[jbcastello]

Alright so long story short, just upgraded my system recently specs are
AMD Ryzen 1600x (stock, no custom clocks)
Asrock x470 Fata1ity K4
8gb Patriot 16gb Gskill at 2666 (won't boot at anything higher)
EVGA 1080 hybrid
PSU Seasonic X650 GOLD
System drive ADATA SX6000NP NVME
Storage drives HP SSD S600/Samsung HD103SJ (1tb)/ Toshiba HDWD120 (2tb)/ WDC WD6000HLHX-01JJPv0 (600GB raptor)
Windows 10 Pro

The most recent upgrade was to the new motherboard from an B350, and thats when the majority of my problems started. So I had a ram slot go back on my old motherboard, and just decided to upgrade since, well I didn't want to RMA my motherboard for 2 weeks and be computerless. I had lots of crashing/BSODs/Freezes until I messed around in my bios and changes some RAM timings/speeds and made sure all my drivers were up to date, but since I messed around with my RAM timings, instead of crashing and getting BSODs, my system has been getting microstutters pretty much while doing anything, gaming, browsing the web, listening to music. anything. Audio/Video stutters but only for just a tiny fraction of a second, happens a few times every hour

After messing with some ram settings some more, and updating to the latest BIOS version (immediately after updating I ran a memtest to check my new speeds) after the test had 5 errors after 8 hours ( 1 error each in 5 of the 6 passes. All during the same test (test 7) so computer will post, but will get a registry error BSOD. Upon system reboot it will boot straight to BIOS and my ram will be listed as 56038MB in one slot, which is more than twice my actual RAM amount. I've flashed CMOS, I've checked, rechecked and swapped ram alots, I've tried booting with one stick only in each slot. Somehow my bootable windows 10 flash drive died while sitting in my desk so currently making another one to try repairing windows directly. Please halp

 

[ablazerapier]

This ones tricky, theres a couple things it could be.
1) You damaged your RAM during installation
2) Bad motherboard
3) Bad CPU
4) CPU overheating
I suggest try ruling out each of these, first try run your computer with different sticks from the ones you have, just buy a cheap DDR3 stick.
If that doesnt fix the issue then move on to checking the CPU temperature while using your PC, there is a possibility that when you moved your parts over you might have taken off some of the thermal paste or incorrectly seated the heat sink and your CPU is running hot. This can cause your computer to BSOD because your CPU will automatically shut down when it detects that its running at a dangerous temperature.
However in my opinion I believe the most likely issue is that the motherboard is defective so you might just have to RMA it.

 

[norcalsc]

you need to reinstall windows when changing out motherboard I suspect this is where your issues arise from

 

[jbcastello]

Yea when I swapped in the new motherboard I did reinstall windows fresh. And still had issues. Currently my issues have gotten worse, after upgrading to the newest released bios (few days old) and running a memtest again windows has a registry error right after post, and system reboots straight to BIOS and misrepresents my ram as 56038mb (I have 24 gigs) tried reinstalling windows with a flash drive and it wouldn't allow me to install. So I flashed my bios back a version and still having issues. Currently trying a different flashdrive to use for installation will update once I get windows reinstalled.

Also I've kept an eye on temps during process and the cpu doesnt seem to be getting to an outrageous amount.

 

[ablazerapier]

Yea when I swapped in the new motherboard I did reinstall windows fresh. And still had issues. Currently my issues have gotten worse, after upgrading to the newest released bios (few days old) and running a memtest again windows has a registry error right after post, and system reboots straight to BIOS and misrepresents my ram as 56038mb (I have 24 gigs) tried reinstalling windows with a flash drive and it wouldn't allow me to install. So I flashed my bios back a version and still having issues. Currently trying a different flashdrive to use for installation will update once I get windows reinstalled.

Also I've kept an eye on temps during process and the cpu doesnt seem to be getting to an outrageous amount.

Well judging from this we can deduct that the issue is the motherboard. Request a new one from the manufacturer.

 

[jbcastello]

Actually... it was the harddrive. Just had to uninstall the one with the corrupted windows on it and all issues have disappeared. No stutters, no crashes. It's just odd because I ran some hard drive tests on all my drives recently and had no issues.