Could BIOS settings cause stuttering?

basedmeezus wrote: try the following: restart your computer, let it sit for a minute or two and lock it and walk away until it goes to sleep mode. come back and wake the pc up from sleep mode and see if the stutter issue occurs while jsut normally browsing the web or on desktop. if you're having this issue, it means im not the only one. the fix i've found is to disable sleep mode/any power saving mode. or if you don't wanna do that, just restart your computer and it should fix the stutter issue. we'll that's atleast what im having. what your describing seems very similar to mine, though i haven't installed linux on my pc yet, so can't troubleshoot the problem there. hopefully this weekend i'll get around to throwing arch on there and see if the problem is there as well. if that's the issue, then i guess it's something to do with bios power saving cpu states

basedmeezus wrote: also while briefly researching this for my issue, i came across someone creating a task manager like application for them self because they had the same issue, and what they discovered was their intel ethernet card was taking 100% of the cpu for that time (250 ms to 1s) and then going back down to normal. it wouldn't show up on task manager but the app they quickly wrote up was logging the intel ethernet card as the culprit. hopefully that helps you out

try the following: restart your computer, let it sit for a minute or two and lock it and walk away until it goes to sleep mode. come back and wake the pc up from sleep mode and see if the stutter issue occurs while jsut normally browsing the web or on desktop. if you're having this issue, it means im not the only one. the fix i've found is to disable sleep mode/any power saving mode. or if you don't wanna do that, just restart your computer and it should fix the stutter issue. we'll that's atleast what im having. what your describing seems very similar to mine, though i haven't installed linux on my pc yet, so can't troubleshoot the problem there. hopefully this weekend i'll get around to throwing arch on there and see if the problem is there as well. if that's the issue, then i guess it's something to do with bios power saving cpu states

I would also suggest it could still be a motherboard issue.

When you say you have tried 3 motherboards are they all from asrock?

Reason I ask is because I put a new computer together back in april and had terrible problems with it, all relating to slow bios updates to the new amd agesa. It was unusable for what I needed it for until I received this update, amd released the update pretty much straight away, asrock applied this update to the bios 6 months later!!!!
After my update had been released the main problem was solved but my system always seemed unreliable and slower than my previous 8 year old computer.
Enough was enough, I purchased a Asus board last month, same specs different manufacture, and I can tell you this my system has been solid ever since, it's snappy and works as I would expect it to.

My asrock board went straight in the bin. I've never had a asrock board before this was my first and is definitely my last. Pure waste of money but a learning curve I suppose.

Good luck, maybe yours could be related to something other than your motherboard.

kerberos_20 wrote: sooo basicly you gpu slows down for some unknow reason rite.. can u run in background latencymon, post picture during/after your issue? also run userbenchmark and post link to your result just a side note...i really doubt its GPU related... baceause your GPU isnt fully utilised, so you get core frequency drops and gpu-z shows utilisation....thats normal power saving feature, it cant make u stutter, stutter would be constant changes of frequency, like every second...still if it would be GPU frequency related, u will have low frequency + alsmost 100% gpu usage, which u dont have soooo. your gpu is fine :)