System Hangs Frequently (sort of?)

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montezuma

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My specs are in my sig. I've had this system for almost two years now. It's been working brilliantly for me so far. However, in the past few months, a strange issue has developed. With some regularity, the system will sort of hang. When switching between apps, the window will show but sometimes none of the contents will appear for a moment. Or, when a video is playing, the video will lag hard for five seconds or so while the audio continues, and then the video catches up. Games are smooth for the most part but sometimes there are moments of HUGE lag even in things like Audiosurf. This has happened across four different video cards and in both XP Pro and Vista, across many video codecs and drivers, and across hard drives in RAID, SATA, and external IDE. I would suspect my processor having some kind of problem but it works just fine for the majority of the time, and my RAM passes tests, so, I'm stumped.
 
adware scan. dont run programs you dont need to. run virus scan. and see how that goes.
 
This happens on fresh installs and old bogged down installs with exactly the same frequency. I've formatted many times since this has started.
Edit: The only event log error I'm getting is the DCOM service failing to start.
 
my old computer was like that because it was out of date. 1.5ghz single core ftw :D are u running alot of programs at same time btw?
 
I run a fair amount of background processes, but I have to stress that this still occurs on fresh formats with only the basics installed. And no matter how long the OS is running it still happens the same amount.
 
Update: When I set the given video program Realtime priority (usually Media Player Classic) the video won't lag anymore, but with the same frequency it will drop frames. It seems to be a processor issue but it's such a strange one.
 
Can you watch Task Manager/Processes when the lagging occurs and see which processes are using the most CPU?
Click on "CPU" twice to sort the column to highest first.
 
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