- Oct 6, 2014
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So, I finally upgraded my PC after seven years. I was running on Windows 7 before and not on an SSD. So, maybe this might be down to me not being familiar with those things. Anyway...
My new PC becomes unresponsive for a few seconds under normal loads. I work and game on my PC.
My work involves having a proprietary cloud app that runs on chrome and is used to create subtitles, so there's a lot of video involved. I can also have word docs, spreadsheets or PDFs open for reference. If I'm switching in between these or doing copy paste or selecting of several paragraphs of text, it just stops for several seconds and then responds later. Simple things like hitting the Cortana button or the start button or the settings button do this. My old PC was inferior in specs and it was a bit slow but it was never this unreasonable. I was actually expecting my new PC to blow me away.
This is an issue while gaming as well. Burnout Paradise Remastered will stop for several seconds to do god knows what in the background. But the animations in the HUD like the boost gauge fire animation and the sound of the engine work fine while it's frozen like this. Cars in the garage will also take a few seconds to load as you're browsing through them or take while to load into the larger world. The issue is especially acute in Dark Souls 2. The Witcher 3 has similar issues.
The frame rates are solid though. Butter smooth when it isn't acting up like this.
I was gonna post this once I had screenshots from CPU-Z and my BIOS settings but I'm in the middle of several deadlines and it is acting up quite badly and I am desperate. I'll try to post whatever information requested ASAP.
Just now, as I was typing this, the cursor is taking it's sweet time actually creating the characters and catching up to me.
Note: I had an issue with my new rig where there were repeated BSODs due to using RAM that was incompatible with Ryzen. But that was fixed by getting one from the official approved list. The PC was actually blazing quick with the server RAM I was using before the switch.
Specs:
Win 10 x64 Pro
Ryzen 2600x
MSI X470 Gaming Plus mobo
A single stick of Corsair Vengeance of 16GB running at 2400mhz
Kingston SSD-480GB(primary hard drive)
Seagate 2TB HDD
WD Black 1TB(this is my old Win 7 HDD)
Gigabyte GTX 960 [6GB VRAM)
Zebronics 600W PSU
I also use Kaspersky Internet Security
Could it be a faulty SATA cable? An issue with the SSD? The RAM? I've noticed that Win 10 is always stuck trying to install an update. I've actually reset the OS three times. A virus infection?
A driver conflict? An issue with the VRAM?
The graphic card has had some superficial damage to the cooler fan and it is vibrating just a bit.
Each new installation starts out fine but the moment I install a few basic apps
and Office, it begins to act this way. Though I can't say for sure about games, since I always install them last.
Update 1: I've also noticed that the SSD response times go up to several thousand milliseconds according to the task manager. Does this indicate an issue with the SATA cable or the SSD itself? Is there a utility I can use to be sure?
Update 2: I've been hearing a lot that this could be down to my single channel configuration and the frequency of the RAM. Can anyone suggest a cheap dual channel config that would be more ideal? 8GBx2. But more expensive 16Gbx2 is also something I would consider.
Update 3: Turns out it's Windows Update being stuck in a loop and constantly performing write operations to my SSD.
My new PC becomes unresponsive for a few seconds under normal loads. I work and game on my PC.
My work involves having a proprietary cloud app that runs on chrome and is used to create subtitles, so there's a lot of video involved. I can also have word docs, spreadsheets or PDFs open for reference. If I'm switching in between these or doing copy paste or selecting of several paragraphs of text, it just stops for several seconds and then responds later. Simple things like hitting the Cortana button or the start button or the settings button do this. My old PC was inferior in specs and it was a bit slow but it was never this unreasonable. I was actually expecting my new PC to blow me away.
This is an issue while gaming as well. Burnout Paradise Remastered will stop for several seconds to do god knows what in the background. But the animations in the HUD like the boost gauge fire animation and the sound of the engine work fine while it's frozen like this. Cars in the garage will also take a few seconds to load as you're browsing through them or take while to load into the larger world. The issue is especially acute in Dark Souls 2. The Witcher 3 has similar issues.
The frame rates are solid though. Butter smooth when it isn't acting up like this.
I was gonna post this once I had screenshots from CPU-Z and my BIOS settings but I'm in the middle of several deadlines and it is acting up quite badly and I am desperate. I'll try to post whatever information requested ASAP.
Just now, as I was typing this, the cursor is taking it's sweet time actually creating the characters and catching up to me.
Note: I had an issue with my new rig where there were repeated BSODs due to using RAM that was incompatible with Ryzen. But that was fixed by getting one from the official approved list. The PC was actually blazing quick with the server RAM I was using before the switch.
Specs:
Win 10 x64 Pro
Ryzen 2600x
MSI X470 Gaming Plus mobo
A single stick of Corsair Vengeance of 16GB running at 2400mhz
Kingston SSD-480GB(primary hard drive)
Seagate 2TB HDD
WD Black 1TB(this is my old Win 7 HDD)
Gigabyte GTX 960 [6GB VRAM)
Zebronics 600W PSU
I also use Kaspersky Internet Security
Could it be a faulty SATA cable? An issue with the SSD? The RAM? I've noticed that Win 10 is always stuck trying to install an update. I've actually reset the OS three times. A virus infection?
A driver conflict? An issue with the VRAM?
The graphic card has had some superficial damage to the cooler fan and it is vibrating just a bit.
Each new installation starts out fine but the moment I install a few basic apps
and Office, it begins to act this way. Though I can't say for sure about games, since I always install them last.
Update 1: I've also noticed that the SSD response times go up to several thousand milliseconds according to the task manager. Does this indicate an issue with the SATA cable or the SSD itself? Is there a utility I can use to be sure?
Update 2: I've been hearing a lot that this could be down to my single channel configuration and the frequency of the RAM. Can anyone suggest a cheap dual channel config that would be more ideal? 8GBx2. But more expensive 16Gbx2 is also something I would consider.
Update 3: Turns out it's Windows Update being stuck in a loop and constantly performing write operations to my SSD.
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