3D Hiccups?

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Weaksauce
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So I recently bumped up to Vista with a full wipe and after installing some games and playing them I'm noticing some slight hiccups. I've got all the latest drivers, and the framerates are great, but i notice this slight glitching, almost as if my virus scanner was running in the background, even though it isnt.
What could this possibly be?
 
what games are you playing? After how long do the hiccups happen? What hardware are you running? What detail settings are you running at? Are these hiccups during intense battles?

Details man we can help but give us details
 
Well what version of Vista did you upgrade to? Also, since you upgraded to Vista, how much RAM do you have?
 
Thanks a lot for getting back to me bros.
I'm running 2gigs or RAM, 7800GT, AMD Opteron 170, Windows Vista Ultimate.
The Vista install was on a clean wiped drive, but I'll go ahead and de-frag it. I've noticed the hitches in all the games I've been running (Hellgate Beta, World of Warcraft, Quake Wars Demo). I even notice it in the silly little Vista "Energy" screen saver.
Its a consistent hiccuping, almost as regular as a heartbeat. I'll be running WoW at 1600x1200 with max details and 2xAA and getting 80fps and have the hitching, then tune down to 1024x768 max settings w/ no AA and be getting 120+ FPS and still get the hitching. No VSynch (hate that stuff personally).
I've hardly got any apps installed on the machine aside from AVG Free and the few gaming apps, but it DOES feel a lot like when I used to be playing a game and the automatic virus scan would start up...
Hope that helps a bit.
Again, thanks so much for the help guys!
 
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