ilovesocks
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First of all, here are my system specs:
Antec Aria case/PSU (300W, 18A on the 12v rail)
MSI socket478 micro-ATX motherboard
Pentium 4 Prescott 3GHz (not overclocked)
2gb (4 x 512mb) Mushkin DDR400
nVIDIA 6800 vanilla (AGP, overclocked)
2 hard drives (74gb WD Raptor, 500gb WD Caviar SE16), 1 optical
Windows XP Pro w/ SP2
Details and pics, if you really want them:
http://www.tech-forums.net/showthrea...threadid=79332
Okay, so what happens is that every once in a while, regardless of whether I'm doing heavy gaming, listening to music, watching videos, surfing the web, or word processing, is that the computer will begin to stutter for a small fraction of a second every second. It doesn't seem to affect any processes or corrupt any data--in fact, if I'm watching a movie when it happens, the audio stutters for a few seconds, then it smooths out. But the stuttering is very apparent when listening to music (ASIO4ALL), and in the choppy movement of the mouse cursor. Also, any input that I give during the stuttering (i.e. mouse clicks, typing) isn't recognized. On the other hand, processes like copying files work just fine, as if the computer just picks up from where it was after every stutter. The choppiness of the cursor annoys the fizzle out of me, and gaming during stutter sessions is impossible. The only way I've found to fix the stuttering is to shut the computer down completely for a second and then boot it back up. A simple reboot doesn't work.
Some days I get no stuttering at all and other days it'll happen several times in an hour, and it happens indiscriminately of whether the CPU is under heavy load and operating at ~40C or is idling at ~28-30C, so I don't think overheating is a possibility. One suspect that I don't want to admit is the possibility of inadequate power from the PSU. I really don't think that this is the problem either, though, because 300W and 18A on the 12v rail should be suffient for this low amount of hardware. I've used a few PSU wattage calculators on the web and they all prescribe ~300W peak wattage, and remember that the stuttering can happen when I'm hardly doing anything at all. I suppose what I should do is connect a beefier PSU and see if I ever get any stuttering.
Anyway, has anyone ever seen a problem like this?
Antec Aria case/PSU (300W, 18A on the 12v rail)
MSI socket478 micro-ATX motherboard
Pentium 4 Prescott 3GHz (not overclocked)
2gb (4 x 512mb) Mushkin DDR400
nVIDIA 6800 vanilla (AGP, overclocked)
2 hard drives (74gb WD Raptor, 500gb WD Caviar SE16), 1 optical
Windows XP Pro w/ SP2
Details and pics, if you really want them:
http://www.tech-forums.net/showthrea...threadid=79332
Okay, so what happens is that every once in a while, regardless of whether I'm doing heavy gaming, listening to music, watching videos, surfing the web, or word processing, is that the computer will begin to stutter for a small fraction of a second every second. It doesn't seem to affect any processes or corrupt any data--in fact, if I'm watching a movie when it happens, the audio stutters for a few seconds, then it smooths out. But the stuttering is very apparent when listening to music (ASIO4ALL), and in the choppy movement of the mouse cursor. Also, any input that I give during the stuttering (i.e. mouse clicks, typing) isn't recognized. On the other hand, processes like copying files work just fine, as if the computer just picks up from where it was after every stutter. The choppiness of the cursor annoys the fizzle out of me, and gaming during stutter sessions is impossible. The only way I've found to fix the stuttering is to shut the computer down completely for a second and then boot it back up. A simple reboot doesn't work.
Some days I get no stuttering at all and other days it'll happen several times in an hour, and it happens indiscriminately of whether the CPU is under heavy load and operating at ~40C or is idling at ~28-30C, so I don't think overheating is a possibility. One suspect that I don't want to admit is the possibility of inadequate power from the PSU. I really don't think that this is the problem either, though, because 300W and 18A on the 12v rail should be suffient for this low amount of hardware. I've used a few PSU wattage calculators on the web and they all prescribe ~300W peak wattage, and remember that the stuttering can happen when I'm hardly doing anything at all. I suppose what I should do is connect a beefier PSU and see if I ever get any stuttering.
Anyway, has anyone ever seen a problem like this?