Hi OCN community!
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7 rev 1.0 with BIOS F21
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
RAM: G.Skill F4-3200C15D-16GTZ
PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX650 Bronze Certified
GPU: Gigabyte G1 980 Ti Windforce
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 24" connected via displayport
2nd Monitor: Acer P216HV connected via DVI
I believe I am experiencing micro stuttering as some may call it. I would say that the issue is rare, but very noticeable. Frankly, it looks like this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jlWNBmQ7A
I have been coming here to get help on this issue, but so far I have not been able to pin point exactly where the problem is yet and I have done a few things already to try to locate the source of the problem. Hopefully, someone can give me some direction. I made a thread a few days ago, and everyone in that thread agreed my GPU was fine. On top of that I swapped out with another GPU and am still getting the same problems.
I thought my problem might be network related because I was technically experiencing it while playing online games. I was wrong, because I noticed the stuttering in unigine valley benchmark, with the old and new GPU.
Passed 10 tests for memtest86 with no errors. Ran HCI memtest until 1000%. I know my RAM is not in the "tested compatibility" list as per RAM and motherboard manufacturer. But I was told it wouldn't be a big issue.
I have the latest chipset drivers, motherboard bios, and gpu driver. I did a clean install of windows 8.1 64-bit
Someone tried to help me determine if it was hardware or software related. And we were doing tests on my old Samsung 830 128GB. I just replaced the SSD with an 850 Evo. With the Samsung 830, there were a lot of stuttering on the first pass of unigine valley benchmark; they occurred every 5-20 seconds. But as more passes went through there was less stuttering. Almost all the stuttering disappeared after I securely erased the SSD and reinstalled windows.
I am starting to suspect it may be a "dirty" power source from the wall, or faulty motherboard, or faulty PSU. Let me know what you guys think.
Some random facts I experienced:
Yesterday, I couldn't get my on-board sound to work. It stopped working properly after I downgraded the BIOS from F8 to F6. I never had a huge issue with the on-board sound with any BIOS from F5 to F8. I thought there was zero sound, but I noticed the green bar fluctuating on the playback window which indicated that sound was being processed; I found out the sound was technically working because I could hear distorted sounds at the highest volume when I was testing it. I tried flashing back to F8 through the BIOS and then reinstalling windows. Nothing worked, until I flashed the BIOS to the latest at F21, which I regret, because you can't revert back.
I also get this weird stutter in L4D2 when I hit space bar to jump. However, It doesn't happen every time. My L4D2 game stutters once about every 20 jumps I make in-game. I want to say I started having this issue when I got my new keyboard, but it is hard to recall now. I noticed the jumping stutters almost disappeared when I flashed from BIOS F8 to F6.
P.S. I'm very sad, because I really wish I knew what to do at this point. There are some other things I want to mention, but I will let the more experienced people try to evaluate what is going on at this point. I am willing to try anything, but I might have to do a bit of learning along the way. Such as buying a multi-meter and testing rails on the PSU.
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7 rev 1.0 with BIOS F21
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
RAM: G.Skill F4-3200C15D-16GTZ
PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX650 Bronze Certified
GPU: Gigabyte G1 980 Ti Windforce
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 24" connected via displayport
2nd Monitor: Acer P216HV connected via DVI
I believe I am experiencing micro stuttering as some may call it. I would say that the issue is rare, but very noticeable. Frankly, it looks like this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jlWNBmQ7A
I have been coming here to get help on this issue, but so far I have not been able to pin point exactly where the problem is yet and I have done a few things already to try to locate the source of the problem. Hopefully, someone can give me some direction. I made a thread a few days ago, and everyone in that thread agreed my GPU was fine. On top of that I swapped out with another GPU and am still getting the same problems.
I thought my problem might be network related because I was technically experiencing it while playing online games. I was wrong, because I noticed the stuttering in unigine valley benchmark, with the old and new GPU.
Passed 10 tests for memtest86 with no errors. Ran HCI memtest until 1000%. I know my RAM is not in the "tested compatibility" list as per RAM and motherboard manufacturer. But I was told it wouldn't be a big issue.
I have the latest chipset drivers, motherboard bios, and gpu driver. I did a clean install of windows 8.1 64-bit
Someone tried to help me determine if it was hardware or software related. And we were doing tests on my old Samsung 830 128GB. I just replaced the SSD with an 850 Evo. With the Samsung 830, there were a lot of stuttering on the first pass of unigine valley benchmark; they occurred every 5-20 seconds. But as more passes went through there was less stuttering. Almost all the stuttering disappeared after I securely erased the SSD and reinstalled windows.
I am starting to suspect it may be a "dirty" power source from the wall, or faulty motherboard, or faulty PSU. Let me know what you guys think.
Some random facts I experienced:
Yesterday, I couldn't get my on-board sound to work. It stopped working properly after I downgraded the BIOS from F8 to F6. I never had a huge issue with the on-board sound with any BIOS from F5 to F8. I thought there was zero sound, but I noticed the green bar fluctuating on the playback window which indicated that sound was being processed; I found out the sound was technically working because I could hear distorted sounds at the highest volume when I was testing it. I tried flashing back to F8 through the BIOS and then reinstalling windows. Nothing worked, until I flashed the BIOS to the latest at F21, which I regret, because you can't revert back.
I also get this weird stutter in L4D2 when I hit space bar to jump. However, It doesn't happen every time. My L4D2 game stutters once about every 20 jumps I make in-game. I want to say I started having this issue when I got my new keyboard, but it is hard to recall now. I noticed the jumping stutters almost disappeared when I flashed from BIOS F8 to F6.
P.S. I'm very sad, because I really wish I knew what to do at this point. There are some other things I want to mention, but I will let the more experienced people try to evaluate what is going on at this point. I am willing to try anything, but I might have to do a bit of learning along the way. Such as buying a multi-meter and testing rails on the PSU.
