I'm having a very weird issue, and I believe the problem is with my HD. I've looked over the internet and couldn't find much, perhaps someone here have a hunch:
Symptoms:
-Major stuttering in games while accessing the HD (like autosaves, some games stop for a whole second when, say, you grab an item ingame it has to save)
-When starting some applications that use HD heavilly on startup Windows will take too much time to open. I've noticed this in programs like Chrome and even the Task Manager. They take like 10-15 seconds to open, and the HD gets accessed the entire time before they load.
- A program that shows information about your hardware (similar to CPU-Z), detects my whole hardware and just before detecting the two HDs it freezes the whole OS for about 30 seconds.
All of the above got a bit worse when switching from Windows 7 to 8..
I know all of these can be interpreted as a slow PC in general, but look at my specs, this build shouldn't be behaving like this.
However:
- Boot times are real good.
- Every application I tried says my HD fitness and health rates are fine. Error checks return nothing. The only thing performance related I could find that shows something negative about the HD is Windows Experience Index. It gives my HD a 5.9 while everything else gets more than 7.0 (in Windows 8 the index maximum is 9.9)
- The symptoms seem only to appear when the whole computer is under load, like ingame or using some more heavy apps (small/medium file transfers, for example, seem to behave just as they should)
Anyone has any ideas? I've thought about power issues with the HD, but I don't know how to check something like that (maybe my power supply could be undervolting the HD when onload?)
My primary HD is a 1TB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y5B1. I'm using 21% of the disk. I also got a similar 500Gb one as disk D:/
Thanks for anything in advance XD
Symptoms:
-Major stuttering in games while accessing the HD (like autosaves, some games stop for a whole second when, say, you grab an item ingame it has to save)
-When starting some applications that use HD heavilly on startup Windows will take too much time to open. I've noticed this in programs like Chrome and even the Task Manager. They take like 10-15 seconds to open, and the HD gets accessed the entire time before they load.
- A program that shows information about your hardware (similar to CPU-Z), detects my whole hardware and just before detecting the two HDs it freezes the whole OS for about 30 seconds.
All of the above got a bit worse when switching from Windows 7 to 8..
I know all of these can be interpreted as a slow PC in general, but look at my specs, this build shouldn't be behaving like this.
However:
- Boot times are real good.
- Every application I tried says my HD fitness and health rates are fine. Error checks return nothing. The only thing performance related I could find that shows something negative about the HD is Windows Experience Index. It gives my HD a 5.9 while everything else gets more than 7.0 (in Windows 8 the index maximum is 9.9)
- The symptoms seem only to appear when the whole computer is under load, like ingame or using some more heavy apps (small/medium file transfers, for example, seem to behave just as they should)
Anyone has any ideas? I've thought about power issues with the HD, but I don't know how to check something like that (maybe my power supply could be undervolting the HD when onload?)
My primary HD is a 1TB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y5B1. I'm using 21% of the disk. I also got a similar 500Gb one as disk D:/
Thanks for anything in advance XD
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit Creators Update
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960 @ 3.6 GHz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 AM3+ Revision
RAM: HyperX 8GB Dual Channel @ 1600Mhz
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960 @ 3.6 GHz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 AM3+ Revision
RAM: HyperX 8GB Dual Channel @ 1600Mhz