Pausing / stalling in all games

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Orangey

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With my sig rig I can run COD4, Oblivion+QTP3 and Warhead pretty well. But there is a lot of stalling even though the FPS counter (FRAPS) remains fairly stable. What I mean exactly is, the game freezes every few seconds. It's worst in COD4 because it's gameplay is much more intense than the others. I get killed all the time because of these damn freeze-ups.

What could be causing this, currently I am thinking about upgrading my mobo and/or hdd.
 
I cant see sigs, so I'm gonna wing iit and say possibly hard drive.:p
 
I know with COD4 is has an option to enabled multiple GPUs for the game.....and being that you have an 4870X2 you would want this option enabled. If thats not the case then I am guessing its possible your CPU could be bottlenecking your gameplay especially with that card.
 
My first recommendation would be to get the 8.9 cats installed if you haven't already.
 
Do you get random quick freeze-ups and hangs when you are on the desktop or surfing the web/watching videos?
 
forgive me for bringing up an old, sore subject, but the op's description reminds me of microstuttering.
 
I'm on 8.9, the freeze-ups actually manifested on the desktop when I was messing around with my CPU OC a few weeks ago. At the time I only had 2GB ram installed for testing purposes. When I put the rest in it didn't happen.

And yep, I did consider microruckler :p but it doesn't seem to fit the profile. It's noticable even from just glancing at the screen for a few seconds.
 
Run memtest and your manufacturer's harddrive diagnostic tool, also try putting your CPU to stock speeds.
 
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