Need help to figure out computer stuttering source

[Mathias_Boudreau]

Hi,

Two days ago, one of the fan of my graphics card started making noise. I removed it and cleaned it up, which is something I often do because it’s an old card. Then, a little bit after I put the graphics card back in my computer, my computer started stuttering. The mouse stops moving for around half a second every 5-10 seconds and softwares lag more than usual. I’m still hable to use the computer, but it’s painful. At first, I thought I did something wrong with the graphics card, but it’s all well connected and nothing seems off. My graphics card is an old mining card that has around 2 years of mining and 3 years of occasional gaming.

I remembered it’s the same stuttering I’ve experienced when I was playing a ram intensive game (BeamNG.Drive), and a UserBenchmark I did in the past told me the ram was performing below expectations. So I bought 2x4Gb of ram because I thought it might be the problem and I needed more ram.

Thinking it might be a ram problem, I run mdsched.exe (Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool). After it has done it’s things, my computer is perfectly working, no more stuttering or crashes, until I reboot. After a reboot the stuttering is back… If I rerun mdsched.exe, then everything works perfectly until I reboot. I did a userbenchmark when I have stutterring and it says my graphics card is 31.8%, but it’s supposed to be 90%. After I run mdsched.exe, UserBenchmark says my graphics card is running 94.3%. Everything else is performing above expectations.

I tried running FurMark before mdsched.exe, and it crashed instantly or was extremely laggy. After running mdsched.exe, FurMark is working perfectly.

I’ve run cpu burners and everything is good. I’d like to point out that I’ve had driver issues not so long ago with my headset, and I’ve been running the same Windows since 3-4 years so it might be a software/Windows/driver issue too.

I’m lost because my graphics card is old and it might be the problem, but everything is fine after I run a Memory Diagnostic. I might get a new graphics card soon, but if you have any ideas about other tests/fixes that could save me a couple hundred bucks, I would gladly appreciate it. I might do a windows reset, but it takes time and effort to save important files, so if I could fix the stuttering without having to reset, I would also appreciate it.

My config:

Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X
Intel Core i5-9600K
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti (Zotac)
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB

[PeterOz]

Thinking it might be a ram problem, I run mdsched.exe (Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool). After it has done it’s things, my computer is perfectly working, no more stuttering or crashes

Are you overclocking the ram in the Bios.
Is the program changing your ram speed?
Your ram is not suited for the CPU you have. Click on me
If you are overclocking then you are adding more problems.
Is your power profile set to High performance or balanced. High performance will also cause stability issues.

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[Rustys]

Abandoned closed.