£350 to upgrade...

agnes · 16 Sep 2014 at 10:50

I recently upgraded my machine. But I'm noticing some stuttering in games, I've yet to sit down and work out what's causing it, but I have a funny feeling one of my drives is on the way out. Fable Anniversary stutters both on the SSD and HDD... So it might be ram... Unsure.

Anyway, here are my specs:

CPU: i5 3.4Ghz (@4.0Ghz) Ivybridge
GPU: GeForce 780 GTX Windforce 3x OC Rev 2.0 3GB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB 1600Mhz
Board: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 M Intel Z77
PSU: XFX XXX Edition PRO 850W
SSD: Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB
HDD: Western Digital 500GB Green

Oh, the upgrade was the GPU from a 670ti to the 780 GTX.

mickyflinn · 16 Sep 2014 at 12:05

Run mem test and try hard drive life .

http://www.memtest.org/

http://hddlife.com/eng/downloads.html

P4Clock · 16 Sep 2014 at 12:29

install MSI Afterburner and let it tracking the GPU performance when playing games.

I take it you uninstall the old drivers before putting the new 780 in your system

agnes · 16 Sep 2014 at 12:43

P4Clock said:
install MSI Afterburner and let it tracking the GPU performance when playing games.

I take it you uninstall the old drivers before putting the new 780 in your system

I did indeed, properly cleaned.

I just read it's a bug in the game... So yea, I don't think it's an issue.

Back to the upgrade options, any idea?

My mouse and keyboard are in dire need of replacing. And my screen is CRAP.

P4Clock · 16 Sep 2014 at 13:38

if that is your current system spec i canT see anything you need to spend money on.
buY some better games that are stable

agnes · 16 Sep 2014 at 13:46

I'm likely going to get a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD

P4Clock · 16 Sep 2014 at 14:53

agnes said:
I'm likely going to get a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD

i dont know what your storage need's are as i cant comment on that. i like to have all games and windows on an SSD, all the other app's i use are ok on a HDD.

the Samsung's are fantastic drives.

JonSmith · 16 Sep 2014 at 15:13

Have you plotted your CPU and GPU usage whilst gaming? You might have an overheating issue.

The other potential problems are DPC latency related. I suggest you download latencymon here: http://www.resplendence.com/downloads and run it. This will show if there are problem drivers sending too many interrupts that will cause stuttering. A common culprit is sound drivers, especially when installed right from the motherboard disk as they are often rushed releases to get the boards shipped on time.

Another thing you can also try is to look for a HPET option in the BIOS and disable it.

The final thing you can try is to disable core parking: http://coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility and make sure you're running the balanced power setting.