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I'm not sure which forum this question honestly belongs in, so I'll try in the 'computer help' area. I've had issues off and on with what I believe are hard drive accesses since I built the system. However, I'm increasingly wondering if it is a motherboard issue.
In a previous thread, the Anand community managed to help me solve the most frustrating issue, where the entire system would freeze when opening or closing new applications. That one was solved by removing the MSI pre-bundled software, which was trying to optimize my drives.
Since then, I will randomly stutter in games (FFXIV, Civ6, Overwatch, Divinity: Original Sin 2, etc.) with an audible sound glitch. More often than not, I only truly notice the stutter due to the sound glitch. There are many things that seem to minimize the frequency and duration of this phenomena, but only one thing seems to more or less 'solve' the issue, and that is removing my page file. I've tried moving the page file to various drives, changing the page file to a fixed size, and a number of other 'fixes'.
I've gone through and systematically fixed most/all of the common errors I see in Event Viewer as well.
I'm stumped at this point... any suggestions?
Details:
Motherboard: MSI X370 Titanium
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 X1800
Ram: 16GB PC3200 G.Skill Flare X (for Ryzen)
Hard Drives: 1x Samsung 960 Pro m.2 500GB
1x Samsung 850 Pro SSD 1TB
1x Samsung 850 Pro SSD 256 GB
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080ti FTW3
Sound: RealTek onboard / Swapped to Soundblaster X to try to eliminate issue
Power: Corsair AX860
Ample air flow and cooling in the case.
Debugging:
RAM:
I've loaded the XMP profile for the ram, and gone stock. I've run the RAM overclocked, and underclocked, and tried to hand tweak voltages a bit. I've tried running on a single stick instead of 2. I've tried swapping the single stick between the 2 I usually use. I've tried swapping in another set of Flare X RAM as well(which strangely, one of that set doesn't want to boot in this system). I've tried mixing and matching the ram in general.
CPU:
I've enabled and disabled power saving features, underclocked and overclocked. Watched the temperature of the processor, and set the CPU fan to max speed.
Sound Card:
I've done a complete driver clean out, and then re-installed the latest drivers from RealTek to no avail.
Hard Drives:
I've tried unplugging all of the SATA SSDs, and running off of only the m.2 drive.
I've installed the Samsung NVMe driver.
I've made sure the AMD storage (and disk drivers) are all installed.
*NOTE:Samsung magician does state that some samsung drives have issues with AMD/AsMedia drivers. I've tried fully uninstalling the AsMedia drivers, but am weary about uninstalling the AMD chipset drivers.
I've enabled and disabled RAPID mode on the 1TB SSD.
I've moved the m.2 that I use at the main system drive, and cloned it over to a SSD, and tried it in every SATA slot on the motherboard.
I've fiddled with every combination of page file similar to what was mentioned in the body of the article above.
... many other debug attempts, but this post is already dragging on. I think my next step is grabbing a different X370 motherboard, and running with that... I've had a love/hate relationship with MSI motherboards across multiple previous builds, so thinking about going for an AsRock or something if that is the course I need to take.
I guess I can just run with my pagefile disabled, but that screams "something is fishy" in the back of my mind. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas, I'd appreciate it!
I'm not sure which forum this question honestly belongs in, so I'll try in the 'computer help' area. I've had issues off and on with what I believe are hard drive accesses since I built the system. However, I'm increasingly wondering if it is a motherboard issue.
In a previous thread, the Anand community managed to help me solve the most frustrating issue, where the entire system would freeze when opening or closing new applications. That one was solved by removing the MSI pre-bundled software, which was trying to optimize my drives.
Since then, I will randomly stutter in games (FFXIV, Civ6, Overwatch, Divinity: Original Sin 2, etc.) with an audible sound glitch. More often than not, I only truly notice the stutter due to the sound glitch. There are many things that seem to minimize the frequency and duration of this phenomena, but only one thing seems to more or less 'solve' the issue, and that is removing my page file. I've tried moving the page file to various drives, changing the page file to a fixed size, and a number of other 'fixes'.
I've gone through and systematically fixed most/all of the common errors I see in Event Viewer as well.
I'm stumped at this point... any suggestions?
Details:
Motherboard: MSI X370 Titanium
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 X1800
Ram: 16GB PC3200 G.Skill Flare X (for Ryzen)
Hard Drives: 1x Samsung 960 Pro m.2 500GB
1x Samsung 850 Pro SSD 1TB
1x Samsung 850 Pro SSD 256 GB
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080ti FTW3
Sound: RealTek onboard / Swapped to Soundblaster X to try to eliminate issue
Power: Corsair AX860
Ample air flow and cooling in the case.
Debugging:
RAM:
I've loaded the XMP profile for the ram, and gone stock. I've run the RAM overclocked, and underclocked, and tried to hand tweak voltages a bit. I've tried running on a single stick instead of 2. I've tried swapping the single stick between the 2 I usually use. I've tried swapping in another set of Flare X RAM as well(which strangely, one of that set doesn't want to boot in this system). I've tried mixing and matching the ram in general.
CPU:
I've enabled and disabled power saving features, underclocked and overclocked. Watched the temperature of the processor, and set the CPU fan to max speed.
Sound Card:
I've done a complete driver clean out, and then re-installed the latest drivers from RealTek to no avail.
Hard Drives:
I've tried unplugging all of the SATA SSDs, and running off of only the m.2 drive.
I've installed the Samsung NVMe driver.
I've made sure the AMD storage (and disk drivers) are all installed.
*NOTE:Samsung magician does state that some samsung drives have issues with AMD/AsMedia drivers. I've tried fully uninstalling the AsMedia drivers, but am weary about uninstalling the AMD chipset drivers.
I've enabled and disabled RAPID mode on the 1TB SSD.
I've moved the m.2 that I use at the main system drive, and cloned it over to a SSD, and tried it in every SATA slot on the motherboard.
I've fiddled with every combination of page file similar to what was mentioned in the body of the article above.
... many other debug attempts, but this post is already dragging on. I think my next step is grabbing a different X370 motherboard, and running with that... I've had a love/hate relationship with MSI motherboards across multiple previous builds, so thinking about going for an AsRock or something if that is the course I need to take.
I guess I can just run with my pagefile disabled, but that screams "something is fishy" in the back of my mind. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas, I'd appreciate it!