Intermittent freezing when gaming

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Every now and then, only when gaming, I get the screen freezing for no more than a second as if someone has pressed the pause key!

This has happened ever since I bought a new PC a few months ago and seems to be getting worse recently :(

I don't have any background processes running apart from NOD32, I wonder if this could be the cause?

I don't like to disable NOD32 when connected to the internet and disabling the internet connection (on the Vista taskbar) is a pain every time I want to play a game.

Is it safe to disable NOD32 whilst gaming while still connected to the internet i.e. would a NAT firewall (on the router) protect me?
 
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