Hello everyone. So about 6 months ago I built my first gaming PC and for the most part it works excellent, but for some reason I have this one recurring issue that has been happening since I built it and I figured I would finally try and find a solution for it.
When I am playing a game, occasionally(and by this I mean every 30-60 minutes or so) the game will completely freeze for about 3 seconds, and then afterwards it will play everything out that happened during that frozen time(like it's catching up) and be fine again. The reason I suspect it is my SSD is because every time, just before the freeze happens, it sounds like my drive is spinning up and reading/loading something. This issues occurs no matter what is happening on screen. It has happened during cutscenes, during gameplay, during low action on screen and high action on screen. It also seems to occur if I ALT+TAB away from the game and to a web browser.
Since this was my first PC build I don't have a ton of experience troubleshooting, so it definitely may have nothing to do with my SSD, but that is what I suspect.
Here are the specs for my build:
Intel i3 8100
Gigabyte H310M Motherboard
Patriot Viper Elite DDR4-2400 RAM(16GB - 2x8GB)*
EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB GPU
ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD(currently I have nothing on my HDD. My OS and games are all on my SSD.)
EVGA BR 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
*I recently(in the past month or so) upgraded my RAM from 1x8GB to 2x8GB. However, this issue was occuring before I upgraded when I still only had 8GB of RAM
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!
When I am playing a game, occasionally(and by this I mean every 30-60 minutes or so) the game will completely freeze for about 3 seconds, and then afterwards it will play everything out that happened during that frozen time(like it's catching up) and be fine again. The reason I suspect it is my SSD is because every time, just before the freeze happens, it sounds like my drive is spinning up and reading/loading something. This issues occurs no matter what is happening on screen. It has happened during cutscenes, during gameplay, during low action on screen and high action on screen. It also seems to occur if I ALT+TAB away from the game and to a web browser.
Since this was my first PC build I don't have a ton of experience troubleshooting, so it definitely may have nothing to do with my SSD, but that is what I suspect.
Here are the specs for my build:
Intel i3 8100
Gigabyte H310M Motherboard
Patriot Viper Elite DDR4-2400 RAM(16GB - 2x8GB)*
EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB GPU
ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD(currently I have nothing on my HDD. My OS and games are all on my SSD.)
EVGA BR 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
*I recently(in the past month or so) upgraded my RAM from 1x8GB to 2x8GB. However, this issue was occuring before I upgraded when I still only had 8GB of RAM
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!