Happens to me often especially when the HDD sleeps. So when the PC starts to access it, the drive starts to spin up and that freeze the PC. It's kinda dumb - I thought we had multi tasking OS these days... but yeah.

Since I turn off sleeping on HDD, this stopped happening.

But when gaming... the HDD won't sleeps, right?

So many solutions on the net. Don't know start from where. LOL

Depends if you have multiple HDD.. one of the HDD which is not where your games are install, could be sleeping.

Worse offender is wd green

I see. Btw, I'm using just 1 HDD.

Can't wait to go home and do troubleshooting.

But I think I'l disable or delete nVidia HD sound thingy and try again. Hopefully don't need to format the whole pc.

I'm using Seagate or you are commenting on someone else?

I think might be with the motherboard chipset or driver. Last time I had 2 SSD + 3 HDD, random slowdown if accessing files on HDD. Now new system I use external hdd for file storage purpose, no more issue.

Best of luck. If you said started after upgrade to 1070, might be good idea to check nVidia driver

After upgrading still okay. Got mirco stutter but now it is getting worst. Still can play games on it. Just that you doesn't know when it will hit you.

Is it okay to use DDU to uninstall the nVidia driver?

I never use before heard it's ok. Windows will roll back to generic display driver, no issue.

no leh. one of my WD green just died after 8-9 years of saving me.
sadly it die too sudden and i'm unable to backup my music p0rn

anyway, who let their HDD/SSD sleep anyway?

This post has been edited by sai86: Jul 12 2017, 11:59 AM

Talking bout sleeping hdd in general

I think depends on luck.
I had the infamous-high-failure-rate Seagate 3TB hdd, failed one month after warranty end all my pirated movie/songs/p0rn gone, full 2.5TB of it There's class action filed at US and owner get compensation, not here
Then I had a 160GB Seagate, still spinning after over 5 years of torrent abuse, still running in my Ryzen rig for torrent download.

i thought its a default settings for primary HDD on every new window installation.
i'll go disable the turn off screen/screen saver/HDD/monitor everytime after a new format.

that Seagate 3TB - is a famous problem. and most ppl said it only happen to capacity above 2TB from seagate. this is one of the reason i did not get Seagate 3TB but instead Toshiba 3TB.
and WD Green become "slow" WD Blue....

Haha i using WD red and its still ass kicking after 5 years Green and Blue avoid at all costs hahahaha

Actually keep download game from steam will make the harddisk die earlier?

don't think so. I think Temperature is no.1 HDD killer.
my dying WD reach 50C while the other sub<40C. altho i sandwich 3 together, hence higher temp in long run kill it i guess.

if got micro stutter, try check if you are using any fps limiter program.

used to having super annoying micro stutters in games (elder scrolls online in particular), lots of troubleshooting done, turns out the evga precision X fps limiter causes it. i set it on 60fps, but the game stutters like hell even on low settings.

I had a failed 1TB seagate too, never had a failed WD before.

Worth buying? Not sure MSI got international warranty?



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don't think MSI has international warranty like EVGA, now me eyeing on EVGA GTX 1080 on Amazon and wait Massdrop for some card, no hope already in MY e-Shop,

EVGA cards on Amazon are pretty cheap! Local card are like rm800 to rm1000 higher! Damn expensive!