Randomly lag during gaming

[myty33]

So whenever I play any games (BF4, ArmA2, CSGO) I randomly lag I have no idea why and I know that a gtx 980 should not be lagging playing them. If you need anymore information feel free to ask it would be great if someone could help!

 

[Tmagic650]

Check for an updated driver for your GTX980 from here:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

[myty33]

Check for an updated driver for your GTX980 from here:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Drivers are up to date

 

[Tmagic650]

Can we have your complete system specs, if you know them?

 

[myty33]

Can we have your complete system specs, if you know them?

Processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Manufacturer AMD
Speed 4.0 GHz
Number of Cores 8
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chipset GeForce GTX 980
Dedicated Memory 4.1 GB
Total Memory 4.0 GB
Memory 8.2 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Service Pack 1
Size 64 Bit
Edition Professional
Display Maximum Resolution 1920 x 1080
DVD HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS95 ATA Device
CD HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS95 ATA Device
Drive 1
Size 931.4 GB
Free 835.4 GB
Drive 2
Size 297.9 GB
Free 297.8 GB
Drive 3
Size 111.8 GB
Free 43.4 GB
Drive 4
Size 100.0 MB
Free 84.7 MB

 

[Tmagic650]

4 hard drives? How are they used?

 

[myty33]

4 hard drives? How are they used?

1 SSD for the OS and some games 1 HDD the 1 TB one for the rest of the things The other 2 are just there for extra space

 

[myty33]

4 hard drives? How are they used?

I was always thinking I was having problems with my computer because of my motherboard because I have had to reset my whole computer 2 times since I got all the parts for it and the first time because of it would just randomly blue screen after a while of it being on and the second time because I got a SSD but that's beside the point. Now my computer used to just randomly restart but I fixed that so its just this random lag problem I have. The reason I think its my motherboard is because it's a POS xD But hey I dont know...

 

[Tmagic650]

What is your motherboards model? SSD's need to be attached to SATA3 ports set as AHCI in the bios. Does your motherboard have them?

 

[myty33]

What is your motherboards model? SSD's need to be attached to SATA3 ports set as AHCI in the bios. Does your motherboard have them?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157262 That is mine yeah everything is plugged into a sata3

 

[Tmagic650]

Not the best motherboard, but not the worst either. I use a ASrock Extreme 6 Intel. Have all the Windows 7 updates been applied, and is there a bios update available for your motherboard? How big is the SSD, 300GB?

 

[myty33]

Not the best motherboard, but not the worst either. I use a ASrock Extreme 6 Intel. Have all the Windows 7 updates been applied, and is there a bios update available for your motherboard? How big is the SSD, 300GB?

Im not 100% sure how to update the BIOS but its a 120GB ssd. I'm planing on upgradeing my motherboard this year and cpu to a 4770k and a Asus x99 deluxe or something along those lines.

 

[Tmagic650]

So the SSD is listed as drive 3 here with 43GB free? You don't have to quote my every reply. Go to the ASrock website and look up your motherboards model and look for a bios update. They should have instructions. You may be able to stop this lag by using a standard hard drive for the boot drive instead of the SSD

 

[nickc]

Im not 100% sure how to update the BIOS but its a 120GB ssd. I'm planing on upgradeing my motherboard this year and cpu to a 4770k and a Asus x99 deluxe or something along those lines.

The 4770k will not work with an x99 board of any kind.