htwingnut
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I have a Shuttle SH67H3 Small Form Factor PC with the following specs:
500W PC63J Power supply (ordered directly from Shuttle - max power draw from system is 300W)
Intel i5-2400
460 GTX (eVGA)
2x4GB DDR3 1333MHz
80GB Intel X25-M SSD
1TB Samsung 7200RPM HDD
2TB Hitachi 7200RPM HDD
The issue I have is that sometimes a game will stutter with audio AND video. Sometimes after 30-60 seconds it will recover. Sometimes the system will just hang completely. Before I go banging my head against a wall swapping out every component and spending money unnecessarily, was wondering if anyone else experienced this?
Since the game I play the most is BF3, I notice it there. I can play for 5 minutes or 20 minutes but it eventually rears it's ugly head. This has happened in the last couple of days only, with nothing changed. I did update drivers to a recommended nVidia driver several days back, but rolled that back to the ones I was previously using and the issue still persisted.
Here's what I have done so far:
- I have cleaned out all the fans/vents. My CPU temps don't exceed 65C, GPU stays below 75C.
- I have uninstalled video drivers and installed older and newer beta ones.
- I updated my Logitech headset drivers too (Logitech G930 wireless headset).
- Actually I thought the issue was a USB port. I moved the headset USB sound controller to a different port and it worked for a longer period but eventually still had issues.
- I did a Ccleaner, Glary Utilities, Malwarebytes sweep on my system along with virus checks, 100% clean.
- MemTest86+ shows error free RAM.
- I did a repair install of Battlefield 3 and it found no corrupt or missing files.
- Turned off virus check (Microsoft Security Essentials)
- Vsync is OFF (usually is for me)
- Prime95 for 30 minutes no issues did not exceed 65C
- Turned off Intel Turbo Boost in the BIOS (CPU does not support hyper-threading so not an issue)
- Updated DirectX (said was up to date)
I am tempted to do a clean Windows install first, but I really feel this is hardware issue. I can swap the GPU with an HD 6670 that's in an SN21G5 at the moment. But I can't really swap CPU or RAM without buying extra. Based on past experience and the issue, I'd have to say this is an issue related with the motherboard or possibly power supply, but I'd like to be able to have some evidence before I send it in for repair/replacement. I have played Skyrim for a bit, and it didn't have issues. But I think BF3 stresses the system a lot more than any game out there.
Thanks for any help.
500W PC63J Power supply (ordered directly from Shuttle - max power draw from system is 300W)
Intel i5-2400
460 GTX (eVGA)
2x4GB DDR3 1333MHz
80GB Intel X25-M SSD
1TB Samsung 7200RPM HDD
2TB Hitachi 7200RPM HDD
The issue I have is that sometimes a game will stutter with audio AND video. Sometimes after 30-60 seconds it will recover. Sometimes the system will just hang completely. Before I go banging my head against a wall swapping out every component and spending money unnecessarily, was wondering if anyone else experienced this?
Since the game I play the most is BF3, I notice it there. I can play for 5 minutes or 20 minutes but it eventually rears it's ugly head. This has happened in the last couple of days only, with nothing changed. I did update drivers to a recommended nVidia driver several days back, but rolled that back to the ones I was previously using and the issue still persisted.
Here's what I have done so far:
- I have cleaned out all the fans/vents. My CPU temps don't exceed 65C, GPU stays below 75C.
- I have uninstalled video drivers and installed older and newer beta ones.
- I updated my Logitech headset drivers too (Logitech G930 wireless headset).
- Actually I thought the issue was a USB port. I moved the headset USB sound controller to a different port and it worked for a longer period but eventually still had issues.
- I did a Ccleaner, Glary Utilities, Malwarebytes sweep on my system along with virus checks, 100% clean.
- MemTest86+ shows error free RAM.
- I did a repair install of Battlefield 3 and it found no corrupt or missing files.
- Turned off virus check (Microsoft Security Essentials)
- Vsync is OFF (usually is for me)
- Prime95 for 30 minutes no issues did not exceed 65C
- Turned off Intel Turbo Boost in the BIOS (CPU does not support hyper-threading so not an issue)
- Updated DirectX (said was up to date)
I am tempted to do a clean Windows install first, but I really feel this is hardware issue. I can swap the GPU with an HD 6670 that's in an SN21G5 at the moment. But I can't really swap CPU or RAM without buying extra. Based on past experience and the issue, I'd have to say this is an issue related with the motherboard or possibly power supply, but I'd like to be able to have some evidence before I send it in for repair/replacement. I have played Skyrim for a bit, and it didn't have issues. But I think BF3 stresses the system a lot more than any game out there.
Thanks for any help.
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