Massive stutters, spikes, lag, crashes, maybe related to frametimes...

Nova Swing · 18 May 2017 at 18:33

Power plan was already on performance.

Maybe it is temps and sensor is borked. I'll play a game later with the side off and test it with my hand. i guess if its at throttling temps I wont want to touch it for too long.

Trying OCCT now, but as things seem to be running ok, not sure if it will produce any insight!

Plec · 18 May 2017 at 18:43

There are Nvidia control panel settings you can try too - but i don't know them off hand.

Download Core Temp for the CPU temps.

If temps prove to be fine again - do you have a spare PSU you could test with?

Nova Swing · 18 May 2017 at 19:01

Just ran OCCT but cancelled after 20 min... anyway the core temp graphs slowly got up to a peak of 90. Not sure if that's because the test pushes the CPU so hard on purpose or not, but Afterburner and HW Monitor have never show it above 70.

Will run a full hour test later. Cancelled it because I had stupidly alt tabbed out of R6 and forgot to quit and wanted to run the test with no apps or games open.

No spare PSU, but if the above is a true representation of temps then maybe that's the problem after all. Thing is, the issues starts as soon as I open a game so the CPU wouldn't have had chance to get so hot so quickly... I think.

Plec · 18 May 2017 at 19:08

Nova Swing said:
No spare PSU, but if the above is a true representation of temps then maybe that's the problem after all. Thing is, the issues starts as soon as I open a game so the CPU wouldn't have had chance to get so hot so quickly... I think.

It's a synthetic stress test and will push the CPU far harder than any game so that's why your temps have soared - they're high though, ideally they would be under 90. But admittedly they wont reach those temps in games - which is why they're reading a steady 60/70 in general gaming usage.

What cooler have you got strapped to the CPU?

It maybe worth re-seating the heatsink - it doesn't sound like it's throttling from your description of temps within games but it wouldn't hurt to test. (trouble is the description sounds like a throttling issue but your in game temps contradict this. Plus, this type of problem can be caused by other issues too).

Additional: what drive are the games you're playing on?

Nova Swing · 23 May 2017 at 14:07

Hi all, just a quick update, the issues have yet to return so I'm going to just let it lie for now. If the problems come back I've got plenty to work through from this thread though. Thanks for all the replies and advice.

Plec · 23 May 2017 at 14:19

Nova Swing said:
Hi all, just a quick update, the issues have yet to return so I'm going to just let it lie for now. If the problems come back I've got plenty to work through from this thread though. Thanks for all the replies and advice.

What did you do to eradicate the problem? - would be useful to know.

implosiveturnip · 23 May 2017 at 18:04

EsaT said:
Have you checked if Event Monitor shows anything for those stuttering moments?
You could also use LatencyMon to check for possible hints of driver problems.
http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Unless you've overvolted it CPU is very unlikely to broke.
And likely results would be major errors/total crashes instead of slow downs.

But that PSU is definitely in suspect list.
I don't remember if OCZ has ever had PSUs with high quality capacitors.
In general they've spend money on bling bling instead of quality.
With precise model name/number it would be easy to check how cheap parts they used in it.

Highly recommend checking your DPC latency, as suggested. Even if the issue is "resolved".