Is my CPU Dying? Stutter problem in WinXP

[Muscles]

Processor: Pentium 4 3.0C OC'ed @ 3.5 ghz
Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
RAM: 2x512mb OCZ pc3700 Gold Rev.2
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Hard Drive: WD 80gb 8mb cache 7200rpm SE
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD-ROM
Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD-R
Power Supply: 400w Fortron
Mouse + Pad: Logitech MX500 + Func Pad
Keyboard: Logitech Elite
Headphones: Sennheiser HD580
Monitor: Sony 21" Trinitron Multiscan E540

There are my system specs. I've had this system built for almost a year now. I've changed nothing since I've built it hardware wise. My OC has always been perfectly stable (prime 24 hrs etc.) Temps always good 40C Full Load. Voltages are all good. The problem now is sometimes after the system has been running a few hours the system stutters (usually starts happening after a couple hours in a game such as WarCraft 3). What do I mean? System appears to be running fine and then it quickly pauses (stutters) and then it unpauses and then pauses again and so on. It's a constant stutter and yes it happens outside of games on the desktop once it starts happening, not just in 3d games.

Since I know it isn't temp or voltages that are causing it what could it possibly be? I've got 30 gigs of HD space left as well. Am I right in the assumption that it could be my CPU dying?

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Erik

 

[wisdomtooth]

Originally posted by: Muscles
There are my system specs. I've had this system built for almost a year now. I've changed nothing since I've built it hardware wise. My OC has always been perfectly stable (prime 24 hrs etc.) Temps always good 40C Full Load. Voltages are all good. The problem now is sometimes after the system has been running a few hours the system stutters (usually starts happening after a couple hours in a game such as WarCraft 3). What do I mean? System appears to be running fine and then it quickly pauses (stutters) and then it unpauses and then pauses again and so on. It's a constant stutter and yes it happens outside of games on the desktop once it starts happening, not just in 3d games.

Since I know it isn't temp or voltages that are causing it what could it possibly be? I've got 30 gigs of HD space left as well. Am I right in the assumption that it could be my CPU dying?

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Erik

Since you had your system for a year already, I suspect over time you have accumulated a lot of junk on your registry and other places on the HD. Perhaps a fresh reinstall of Windows will reinvigorate your computer.

I do that on mine once a year..

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: wisdomtooth

Originally posted by: Muscles
There are my system specs. I've had this system built for almost a year now. I've changed nothing since I've built it hardware wise. My OC has always been perfectly stable (prime 24 hrs etc.) Temps always good 40C Full Load. Voltages are all good. The problem now is sometimes after the system has been running a few hours the system stutters (usually starts happening after a couple hours in a game such as WarCraft 3). What do I mean? System appears to be running fine and then it quickly pauses (stutters) and then it unpauses and then pauses again and so on. It's a constant stutter and yes it happens outside of games on the desktop once it starts happening, not just in 3d games.

Since I know it isn't temp or voltages that are causing it what could it possibly be? I've got 30 gigs of HD space left as well. Am I right in the assumption that it could be my CPU dying?

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Erik

Since you had your system for a year already, I suspect over time you have accumulated a lot of junk on your registry and other places on the HD. Perhaps a fresh reinstall of Windows will reinvigorate your computer.

I do that on mine once a year..

I think that's the only way to rejuvenate your computer. Cleaning out the registy + removing junk+spyware doesn't have quite the same/large effect as a fresh install of XP does.

 

[Muscles]

Yea, I was going to try that next. I have a few DVDs I have to burn first I decrypted awhile ago which I've been lagging on. Hopefully that solves the problem.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

When my hard drive went out, the system started stuttering. You might want to check that.