New computer stuttering - Hardware & Software

So I built this new pc about a week and a half ago and during games/movies/music it would sometimes stutter,games would stutter for half a second, movies and music would stutter longer. I'm running on windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I got an intel i7 960 I got 12 gb ddr3 ram I got a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard I got a sapphire 5970 GPU a 750 HD and a 1 TB HD.

Reinstalled the GPU drivers?

I'm updated to the newest gpu drivers via Steam.

You should probably try with a re-installation of them. Download DriverSweeper from here: [url]http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/[/url] Go into safe-mode, and do a full ATi cleanout. Reboot into normal mode, and download the newest drivers for your card from here: [url]http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon-win7-64.aspx[/url] When the installation's finished, reboot again, and report back.

Might be DPC Latency, run this: [url]http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml[/url] - and after you get a stutter, see if it spikes. If so, let us know and we'll get you some diagnostic tools.

[QUOTE=leach139;25287644]Might be DPC Latency, run this: [url]http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml[/url] - and after you get a stutter, see if it spikes. If so, let us know and we'll get you some diagnostic tools.[/QUOTE] I've been running this tool and right now it doesn't seem to be stuttering, odd. [editline]11:23AM[/editline] now it seems to spike, but not stutter.

[QUOTE=sopie;25287257]So I built this new pc about a week and a half ago and during games/movies/music it would sometimes stutter,games would stutter for half a second, movies and music would stutter longer. I'm running on windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I got an intel i7 960 I got 12 gb ddr3 ram I got a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard I got a sapphire 5970 GPU a 750 HD and a 1 TB HD.[/QUOTE] Whythe hell would you need such an overpowered pc? Especially with the HD6*** comming out this month. Annyways what is your PSU?

[img]http://i51.tinypic.com/rhirh5.png[/img] It started to stutter while playing a game and these are the results, what do I have to do? [editline]05:30PM[/editline] [QUOTE=taipan;25291477]Whythe hell would you need such an overpowered pc? Especially with the HD6*** comming out this month. Annyways what is your PSU?[/QUOTE] It's an antec 850 watt psu.

shameless bump.

Another bump.. I seriously want this fixed guys.

Got your PM, sorry about the delay. That looks like something's playing up. It's a pretty long process, but here's the windfall: Please remember that the commands should be entered EXACTLY. :siren:[b]Extremely long walkthrough below![/b]:siren: 1: Grab the Windows SDK ([url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c17ba869-9671-4330-a63e-1fd44e0e2505&displaylang=en[/url]) - it's a small bootstrapper 2: When you pick what you want from this list: [img]http://the-oliver.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Windows7SDK.jpg[/img] [b]DESELECT EVERYTHING EXCEPT "Win32 Development Tools"[/b] - this will save you a hefty download 3: Wait for it to download and install all of its shit 4: Head to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0" (or wherever you installed) and install wpt_x64.msi (might have to restart after this) 5: Open a new command prompt (Start, type in CMD then enter) 6: The command to run is as follows (might freeze the prompt for a few seconds): [code]xperf -on latency[/code] 7: Recreate the latency in-game (might be an idea to have the meter open) 8: When you've got it, run this: [code]xperf -stop[/code] Then make sure you've got it: [code]dir \kernel.etl[/code] 9: Run this: [code]xperfview \kernel.etl[/code] If you've got User Account Control disabled, you'll get a message about running elevated, you can go ahead and say yes You'll then get a GUI that looks like this: [img]http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/peterwie/WindowsLiveWriter/MeasuringDPCtime_EA29/image_thumb_1.png[/img] Scroll down and find the DPC CPU Usage flow (and take a screencap of it), then right click and select "Summary Graph", which'll get you this: [img]http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/peterwie/WindowsLiveWriter/MeasuringDPCtime_EA29/image_thumb_6.png[/img] [b]Sort by "Actual Duration [ms]", screenshot, and upload both.[/b] We'll take a gander and get back to you. Also, what antivirus do you use?

The current antivirus I use is avira free.

Use "Microsoft Security Essentials", works wonders. That thing itself got my PC out of a very tough situation with the help of CCleaner (to remove old infected Avira) and [b]Malwarebytes[/b] to scan for shit that Microsoft Security can't find. Obviously doesn't have anything to do with your graphical problems, but since you've got such a super PC, I recommend switching to these antivirus softwares.

[QUOTE=leach139;25332393]Wall of helpfulness[/QUOTE] Good man.