New Build "Jerky" In General Use

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 18:16

Just built this PC:

Intel Core i5-2500K & Asus P8P67 Intel P67 Motherboard Bundle
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply
Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case With Fan Cooler
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Everything went well and I got it up and running. Installed Windows 7 when prompted, and it started up perfectly.

However, I'm noticing that it's very "jerky" while just using it in general. It can be seen on things like simply opening a new tab in Chrome, it stutters and jerks as it slides across rather than just smoothly sliding. And just in general with everything you can definitely tell its being pretty juttery.

However it's running very quickly though, as things load up immediately and tasks that would be slow on my relatively budget laptop are completed at a fraction of the time.

I have installed all the latest drivers for everything, done all the updates, made sure no programs are eating up a lot of ram or anything like that.

Any idea why it might be doing this?

Really quite demoralizing when you've spent so much on it :/

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Nvidiot · 12 Apr 2011 at 18:17

Hi there,

try these.

Installed the motherboard drivers, nvidia drivers?

also run the windows performance index, so the PC learns the hardware.

can you run benchmarks? provide a score to compare to similar PCs?

DragonQ · 12 Apr 2011 at 18:38

Definitely make sure you have the latest motherboard chipset and GPU drivers.

snaggster · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:00

It definitely sounds like a driver issue. have you had a look in device manager to make sure you have no yellow "!"'s

cammy5477 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:13

snaggster said:
It definitely sounds like a driver issue. have you had a look in device manager to make sure you have no yellow "!"'s

^this^

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:16

Have installed all the latest drivers for the GPU from the Nvidia site.

Have installed all the latest drivers for the P8P67 from the Asus site.

Have run Windows Performance Index.

And there are no yellow "!" in Device Manager, with everything saying that it is working properly.

cmndr_andi · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:22

Hi there,

Sounds like you have installed all the relevant drivers.

May I ask, is your system stable under full load? You may want to try running a CPU stress tester like Prime95 and a GPU stress tester like Furmark to ensure that these core components are running as they should be. Make sure you keep an eye on the temps when you do these tests.

Edit: Also, what mouse you are using and have you installed the drivers for it?

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:22

What software should I use to benchmark?

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:27

Well I ran some games, such as Crysis 2 and Starcraft 2, at high settings for a while to test it all out and had no stability issues at all and they ran pretty smoothly.

And I'm using a basic USB mouse, which automatically installed drivers when I put it in the first time, and has run fine on other computers before.

cammy5477 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:31

for that spec of system drop an ssd in for £100ish and you will notice a huge difference...should take away any feel of jerkiness

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 19:49

Yeah I have no doubt an SSD would be a lot better than what I have, but I shouldn't be having this problem with any HDD.

cammy5477 · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:02

chivs688 said:
Yeah I have no doubt an SSD would be a lot better than what I have, but I shouldn't be having this problem with any HDD.

no i agree but if you have all drivers installed and its stable it sounds like a hdd access problem to me....why not get a ssd and keep your spinpoint for storage? is it a 5400rpm or a 7200rpm? if its 5400rpm id say for sure thats the problem

EDIT: i see its 7200rpm drive.....what do you have it plugged into on your mobo sata2 or sata3? have you tried changing the sata port its plugged into? download HDTACH and see what kind of performance your drive is giving you which will give you an indication of where your at speed wise....you will need to run it in xpmode though to get it to work on windows 7.

opethdisciple · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:04

It sounds like you dont have the Nvidia drivers installed.

cammy5477 · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:10

opethdisciple said:
It sounds like you dont have the Nvidia drivers installed.

OP says he has installed the nvidia and asus drivers

Tonester007 · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:03

Any processess hogging your CPU/Memory in Task Manager?

chivs688 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:41

My HDD is plugged into one of the SATA 6Gb/s slots. Is this the right one? Or should it be in the 3Gb/s one?

And yes I've made sure pretty much everything is closed down bar the essentials and the issue is still there, so don't think it's a program issue.

cammy5477 · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:46

chivs688 said:
My HDD is plugged into one of the SATA 6Gb/s slots. Is this the right one? Or should it be in the 3Gb/s one?

And yes I've made sure pretty much everything is closed down bar the essentials and the issue is still there, so don't think it's a program issue.

plug it in to a sata 2 slot or 3gb/s one as you said......it is a sata 2 drive....try it and see how it goes....