So this is your normal build and at some time everything slows down?
Or did you upgrade your existing build to the decribed setup?
I heard off a few cases like that but the guys thought it would be a nice idea to upgrade the MB (or other internals) without installing windows again. This could possibly work but most of the time it isn't or isn't working good cause of the missing drivers.
So did you swap any internals?
Did you do any driver updates?
Have you tried installing windows new?
This sounds like a CPU or memory error to me.
The slowdown can be summed up as excessive stuttering in pretty much every game I attempt playing. I have no idea why it's happening. As for the CPU swap I did, I only did that on a hunch that my CPU may have been going bad. I've had that happen once before so to test the theory I used an older FX 6300 just to see how the performance would compare, and it was virtually the same. So I don't think the CPU is my issue.
I have reinstalled Windows as well, and it has not done me any good. I've tried different drivers for my GPU, resetting the BIOS, I ran memtest as well and found out that my RAM is fine... so I'm really just grasping at straws here. Kind of a newb at PC building as I used to be a console guy, but I'm finished with that world. Now I'd just like to get my system back on it's feet. All the responses are appreciated by the way, I hope I can get to the bottom of this
Sounds like a over heating cpu and or video card are you useing the stock amd heatsink?
I'm using a cooler master hyper 212 evo for the CPU heatsink and it's @ 21 C currently. The GPU interestingly enough, with just some music playing in the background and typing this post is @ 52 C. That seems kinda high...
Well 21c is actualy impossible anless your room is around 1c cpu's on idle will be above room temperature and yes 52c with just some background stuff going on is a little high the 8350 will throttle at 62c (some good ones will go to 70c before throttleing)
Its so hot in my flat here in the uk that i have had to under clock my 8320 to keep the temps down useing a H80i (summer is a bitch)
Perhaps I am reading this wrong then... my temp reads CPU core #1 - #8 23.4 C. ??? what am I missing here. And my GPU temp went down to 38 C after I stopped watching the music video. I probably sound like a retard in trying to explain all this. Bottom line is I'd like to narrow it down here and figure out wtf is wrong
Something else I noticed; each of my cores are only running @ 1400mhz according to open hardware monitor. That's the min/max value all the time it never seems to change. Wtf? What does that mean?
This is most likely the issue, after trying to stress the CPU with prime95 the clock speed stayed the same. I reset the CMOS, disabled the power saving features in my bios and all of this has been to no avail. For one reason or another my processor refuses to go above 1400 mhz. Wow this is annoying as fuck. And before anyone asks, no the slow mode button is not set to on.
Sorry in advance for the triple post
I updated the BIOS and ran the DPC latency checker as you recommended. The DPC latency checker showed green the entire time; I watched a couple of short videos on my hdd and tested it while playing Watch Dogs, the chart never showed anything beyond the green range.
And no, it's only my games I notice having the stuttering issues. Video playback and listening to audio files seems to not be an issue. And according to CPU-Z I'm still, even after the BIOS update stuck on my CPU @ 1400mhz.
Also thanks for the reply, I appreciate the help
Set power saveing to performance in windows as well as disableing Cool’n’Quiet in the bios that should stop the cpu droping allso check the amd catalyst control center.
If that dosent work check you havent accidently set the cpu to 1.4Ghz in the bios.
Yes I've set the power saving features, cool n' quiet included, to disabled in the BIOS already. It made absolutely no difference at all. I've checked my CC settings as well, and everything is as it should be. Still the problem persists.
Quick update: Just to make sure I wasn't crazy I checked the slow mode switch. Apparently it was on -_- my dumb ass of course didn't realize it. So I ticked it off and received better performance immediately pretty much. And then my temps SKYROCKETED. 80 C for the processor. Holy fuck, guess it was throttling. Question is how do I fix this bullshit? I reapplied some thermal paste and so far the gains are minimal.
