Recent content by Calamarth

I tried my comp at a friend's place and his network, and it made no difference, so the crazy idea is put to rest. Also, when I was at his place I used the onboard NIC, and not the dedicated NIC I normally use at home for wifi. I'll probably try and reinstall Windows over the weekend. I've got...

RogueTrip, I have tried running the game whilst looking at the performance monitor (dual-monitors ftw :P). HDD activity peaked at some 3000-4000kbps during my stutters, but that should be entirely normal. Otherwise, it stayed at 100-200kbps. Nothing looked fishy with the CPU or RAM usage either...

My apologies for double-posting, but I really needed to bump this one, as the problem simply can't be lived with, and I need some answers. :') Besides, I have 2 more things to "throw into this." 1) Could it be an idea to increase the PCIE Frequency and possibly the NB voltage? 2) This is...

Initially, I only lowered the settings halfways or so. This time around I took everything to the lowest (didn't touch resolution, which, incidentally, is 1900*1200) and the stutter became barely noticeable, but didn't disappear entirely. Instead of "skipping several frames," it seemed as if it...

Yes, I have stresstested both the CPU and GPU in Everest, and both passed fine.

No, I haven't tried running it in a different system of any kind; it's definitely on my to-do list unless somebody comes up with another brilliant solution that requires a bit less work. :')

A Thermaltake 750w. I guess it's at the minimum of what I can have with this kind of rig, which is why I'm rather concerned about that.

Don't have any background tasks running, unless you want to count programs such as Trend Micro and Firefox. You say you doubt it's insufficient power because it wouldn't do HDD stuff, as in it wouldn't have affected the HDD if it was insufficient power? But couldn't it be the GPU that's starved...

Forcing the Vsync in CCC didn't make any difference either...

I tried turning Vsync on/off with or without Triple Buffering. I also tried lowering all settings, and the problem still persists. I doubt it's the mice (a Logitech G5, btw) since I get the problem if I turn around quickly using keyboard-strokes as well. Frostex: I'm not quite sure I...

Ah yes, forgot to mention that. Yes, I'm running with Vsync on.

Wow, thanks for all the response! First, I use the latest ATI catalyst drivers, 9.1. Converge, your stutter seems to be the same as mine in that it appears to be skipping a few frames, and then it's back to normal. However, my stutter does not come every 4 secs or so; only when I turn around...

Hey guys. Got an issue with my rig; in any game, like WoW or Far Cry 2, whenever I turn abruptly, I get a stutter. This is extremely annoying, and unacceptable for my kind of rig. I noticed that when it stutters, the HDD led flashes, so I'm guessing it comes whenever the graphics card is...

Point finally taken. :') All in all, I'm probably hoping this build will keep me sustained for some 3 years+ with only minor hardware upgrades along the way. As long as it's able to run whatever MMORPG I'll be playing at the time, chances are high I'll find a way to postpone a new build. :D...

I considered the P5Q for some time too, but reading the review here on hardocp, it's apparently incredibly annoying trying to OC with it? If I remember correctly, the review also stated that could well be fixed with future BIOS updates though, so I'm not completely ruling it out. And the 8GB...