Hi,
I've had this problem for a long time now. Can't remember if it was there before I bought the new SSD a year ago.
I thought it was my old hardware, so I recently replaced/upgraded almost everything in my system (but not the SSD) in the hopes of getting rid of it.
Sadly, the problem persists. :-/
Hardware that I kept from old system:
SilverStone FT02 Case
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD - SATA (bought a year ago)
3TB SATA HDD for data (7 years old by now)
Noctua NH D-14 SE2011 Cooler
Asus Xonar Essence STX (needs some extra 4pin Power from PSU to work)
SCYTHE Kaze Master Fan Controller (only connected to case fans, not to new MoBo and not to CPU fans)
Plextor DVD Drive
Some 4pin Power Extension Cabling/splitter to Scythe Fan Controller and to Plextor DVD drive.
An old Wifi-router CISCO Linksys (I tested removing this wifi-router and going straight from the modem to MoBo, but did not solve the issue)
The modem I got from my cable-company about a year ago.
New Hardware:
Corsair RMx (2018) 750W
Asus - Prime X470 Pro ATX
MSI Geforce RTX 2060 Gaming Z
Ryzen 7 2700X
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4-3200Mhz
I replaced the power and data cables for my SSD and HDD with new one's.
The main issues:
I'm on Windows 10. I formatted and made a completely new OS with the new hardware.
I don't know if this is pertinent, but in my old system, the SSD I used and still am using was powered via 4pin Molex to SATA adapter. I now changed it to be powered by a "pure" new SATA power cable.
(1) When I start the Battle-Net Launcher, sometimes when I download one of the games (to SSD), my computer completely lags out. I'm not talking about d/l speeds, I'm talking lagging out as if you have 8fps in a 3D video game. It lags so bad that I have to close the launcher if I want to keep using the computer (browsing, Office software, windows explorer, anything really). Any audio playing also begins to stutter hard.
However, I just tested it again, and it was less bad. It still lagged the computer slightly and made everything feel not smooth, but it was not as bad as yesterday's 8fps. However, when I tried watching a high-res Twitch stream while Battle.Net was downloading, the twitch stream would not work, it would lag out. Once I close the Battle.Net Launcher, the Twitch Stream is smooth again.
(2) When I use Torrent-Software (downloading to data drive, not SSD), I cannot continue watching Twitch on my side monitor. It lags out like in the case above. Again, I'm not talking about d/l lag / bandwidth problems. I'm talking about a weird fps lag like as if a 3D video game runs at 8fps and is completely overwhelming your system. The sound stutter happens here too. Let's say my max available bandwidth is 11mb/s. Even when my torrent downloads at 2mb/s and there should be at least 8mb/s available for the Twitch Stream, the Twitch stream will begin to lag. It's not normal, it should be fluid as long as the torrent does not max out the bandwidth. And even then, it should only cause the stream to buffer, not the whole system to "physically" lag.
I thought all this was caused by some bad parts of my old motherboard just being overwhelmed somehow when just downloading with the battle.net Launcher to my only year-old SSD.
But the problem persists with the new hardware.
Anybody have any idea? I'd be so happy if the system would just run smoothly. I can play games like Dark Souls III perfectly smoothly with the new system at Max settings, and no temp issues at all.
But something is very wrong with downloading things.
I've had this problem for a long time now. Can't remember if it was there before I bought the new SSD a year ago.
I thought it was my old hardware, so I recently replaced/upgraded almost everything in my system (but not the SSD) in the hopes of getting rid of it.
Sadly, the problem persists. :-/
Hardware that I kept from old system:
SilverStone FT02 Case
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD - SATA (bought a year ago)
3TB SATA HDD for data (7 years old by now)
Noctua NH D-14 SE2011 Cooler
Asus Xonar Essence STX (needs some extra 4pin Power from PSU to work)
SCYTHE Kaze Master Fan Controller (only connected to case fans, not to new MoBo and not to CPU fans)
Plextor DVD Drive
Some 4pin Power Extension Cabling/splitter to Scythe Fan Controller and to Plextor DVD drive.
An old Wifi-router CISCO Linksys (I tested removing this wifi-router and going straight from the modem to MoBo, but did not solve the issue)
The modem I got from my cable-company about a year ago.
New Hardware:
Corsair RMx (2018) 750W
Asus - Prime X470 Pro ATX
MSI Geforce RTX 2060 Gaming Z
Ryzen 7 2700X
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4-3200Mhz
I replaced the power and data cables for my SSD and HDD with new one's.
The main issues:
I'm on Windows 10. I formatted and made a completely new OS with the new hardware.
I don't know if this is pertinent, but in my old system, the SSD I used and still am using was powered via 4pin Molex to SATA adapter. I now changed it to be powered by a "pure" new SATA power cable.
(1) When I start the Battle-Net Launcher, sometimes when I download one of the games (to SSD), my computer completely lags out. I'm not talking about d/l speeds, I'm talking lagging out as if you have 8fps in a 3D video game. It lags so bad that I have to close the launcher if I want to keep using the computer (browsing, Office software, windows explorer, anything really). Any audio playing also begins to stutter hard.
However, I just tested it again, and it was less bad. It still lagged the computer slightly and made everything feel not smooth, but it was not as bad as yesterday's 8fps. However, when I tried watching a high-res Twitch stream while Battle.Net was downloading, the twitch stream would not work, it would lag out. Once I close the Battle.Net Launcher, the Twitch Stream is smooth again.
(2) When I use Torrent-Software (downloading to data drive, not SSD), I cannot continue watching Twitch on my side monitor. It lags out like in the case above. Again, I'm not talking about d/l lag / bandwidth problems. I'm talking about a weird fps lag like as if a 3D video game runs at 8fps and is completely overwhelming your system. The sound stutter happens here too. Let's say my max available bandwidth is 11mb/s. Even when my torrent downloads at 2mb/s and there should be at least 8mb/s available for the Twitch Stream, the Twitch stream will begin to lag. It's not normal, it should be fluid as long as the torrent does not max out the bandwidth. And even then, it should only cause the stream to buffer, not the whole system to "physically" lag.
I thought all this was caused by some bad parts of my old motherboard just being overwhelmed somehow when just downloading with the battle.net Launcher to my only year-old SSD.
But the problem persists with the new hardware.
Anybody have any idea? I'd be so happy if the system would just run smoothly. I can play games like Dark Souls III perfectly smoothly with the new system at Max settings, and no temp issues at all.
But something is very wrong with downloading things.
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