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High FPS in all games but seriously bad hitching while playing
Hello and thanks for checking out my issue,
This has been a real pain to try and figure out over the past week. The hitching started when I decided to upgrade my computer. I previously used an AMD FX-6100 CPU and switched to an Intel i5-4690k. I also purchased a Crucial MX 100 SSD to use as a boot drive.
While I was installing Windows 7 I accidentally did not delete my old partition from the previous installation. Later on in the installation when I tried to change the date and time, the entire system froze for about 30 seconds (where the clock did not change at all and was 30 seconds behind when it stopped) I thought it was odd but kept going. After the installation I added the necessary drivers and a few games like Arma 3. Before the really bad hitching began the game froze once for a really long time and again the clock stopped and lost track of time. Some really bad hitching in *all* of my games began a short while later (maybe a day and a half) It was really odd so the next day I decided to take apart my computer and put it back together outside of the case as I had thought my case and large radiator was cutting off power to my CPU and possibly GPU.
After I restarted the computer outside of the case I had no hitching in my games anymore, so I thought great I fixed it! But the very next morning it was back and even worse. Steam seems to struggle to type messages, it lags when I scroll through my games list, and even some documents on Chrome do the same thing. I ran some tests with GPU-Z and the performance monitor and attached them below. I noticed my GPU would throttle up to almost 100% usage and then down to like 5%, and it matched when the hitching would occur on screen. A high pitched noise coming from the card also matched the odd hitching. So I really am not sure what to do now. Is my card on its last legs now? Or is the small partition I left behind causing all the trouble? Any advice would really help! And thank you for taking the time to read this wall of text