[SOLVED] My computer always stutters when I play games

[OwenDocherty]

my computer struggled when i was trying to play recent games due to the fact i have quite a dated pc with dated components. i upgraded my gtx 950 to a gtx 1070 8gb yet whenever i play the newer games it stutters, i cant play the new cod and can't run star wars battlefront 2 without it stuttering. Also when i do play games that seem to stutter discord works poorly and i often cuts out communications to who I'm speaking to breifly. I think it may be a hard drive problem as in task manager my hard drive is often at 100%. How can i solve this problem? what needs upgraded?
i have :
8GB ram ddr4
intel core i 5-6400
gtx 1070 8GB

 

[Flayed]

16GB is still very big amount of RAM today. I don't know if 16 GB is neccessary. It's not known if a Game always reads HDD for files to use, or writes them into RAM. That much RAm could be standing still, without action.
OwenDocherty, It's worth looking how much you use when biggest game is loaded.

It doesn't have to be 16GB that is required it just has to be >8GB

 

[Gmoney06ss]

16gb is definitely not a very big amount of ram in today's games. And an upgrade to 16gb would certainly alleviate some of the stutter in newer games. New call of duty included, as it can use 8+ leaving none for windows processes.