What's up (Insert generic tom's hardware forum follower's nickname here), I've got a puzzling question for the lot of you!
I've got a computer that I've been slowly building up from the ground,
link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jfpwRB
Problem is, I bought the Kingston SSD recently, and I moved my OS from my current hard drive to it, and it was working just great at first, but something odd started happening when i played games on it once again, once every 5-10 seconds it's started skipping frames (I'll be running GTA V and it will be running at 60-80FPS, and it does the whole .1 second pause thing) I would think that it's something with my graphics card, but it doesn't seem to effect by FPS at all when it's running normally, and it seems to effect very graphically intense games (FO4/ GTA V) and moderately graphicly intense games (CS:GO/Dark Souls 2) equally. I have noticed, however, on games that are on the lower end of graphic intensity (Original dark souls, half life 2, ep1, ep2) That I barely notice anything at all, though, the FPS on Dark Souls seem to drop sometimes, but that seems to happen no matter what I play it on.
So, I suppose my question is, what could be happening here?
Things I've tried:
1. Reinstalling windows completely on the SSD and moving everything else to the HDD
2. updating everything (From the BIOS to all my drivers)
3. Moving a game to the SSD, it still does the same thing, but it loads faster (Yay?)
4. Sleeping
5. Checking for any form of virus (Including running a boot-time scan with avast)
6. reinstalling Steam on the SSD, but putting the games library on the HDD.
I was going to attempt at moving everything back to my HDD today, but I don't want to have an SSD just not being used on my computer that's only 120GB in size, nor do I even know if this will solve the problem.
I'm out of ideas, but before I went too crazy, I decided I'd ask the experts (All you people!)
What are your suggestions, my friends?
I've got a computer that I've been slowly building up from the ground,
link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jfpwRB
Problem is, I bought the Kingston SSD recently, and I moved my OS from my current hard drive to it, and it was working just great at first, but something odd started happening when i played games on it once again, once every 5-10 seconds it's started skipping frames (I'll be running GTA V and it will be running at 60-80FPS, and it does the whole .1 second pause thing) I would think that it's something with my graphics card, but it doesn't seem to effect by FPS at all when it's running normally, and it seems to effect very graphically intense games (FO4/ GTA V) and moderately graphicly intense games (CS:GO/Dark Souls 2) equally. I have noticed, however, on games that are on the lower end of graphic intensity (Original dark souls, half life 2, ep1, ep2) That I barely notice anything at all, though, the FPS on Dark Souls seem to drop sometimes, but that seems to happen no matter what I play it on.
So, I suppose my question is, what could be happening here?
Things I've tried:
1. Reinstalling windows completely on the SSD and moving everything else to the HDD
2. updating everything (From the BIOS to all my drivers)
3. Moving a game to the SSD, it still does the same thing, but it loads faster (Yay?)
4. Sleeping
5. Checking for any form of virus (Including running a boot-time scan with avast)
6. reinstalling Steam on the SSD, but putting the games library on the HDD.
I was going to attempt at moving everything back to my HDD today, but I don't want to have an SSD just not being used on my computer that's only 120GB in size, nor do I even know if this will solve the problem.
I'm out of ideas, but before I went too crazy, I decided I'd ask the experts (All you people!)
What are your suggestions, my friends?
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