I just put together a new rig for the first time.
AMD Athlon x4 750k 3.4Ghz 4 Cores 4 Threads
NVIDIA GTX 750 SC 2GB GDDR5
WD Refurbished 250GB 7200RPM HDD
4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair vengeance blue
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Drivers updated, Temps all cool. Prime 95 stress tested all under 60C
my hard drive has been making a really loud noise screeching etc.
does this most of the time even when idle.
Minecraft runs fine but when i booted it up first time the fps dropped from 230 to 0 and crashed
Black ops 2 my fav game ran maxed out but stuttered sometimes witch got annoying and would randomly freeze sometimes! Sometimes fps was good sometimes unstable it would go from 125 fps to 30 fps witch made it rather unplayable.
battlefield 3 ran maxed out and also froze sometimes fps drops from 90 to 2 and stutters throughout the game only seemed to get worse.
UPDATE***
i have sent the hard drive in for an RMA to WD
it seemed to be defective.
is that what is causing this issue? Because i don't know what else to do!
oh and psu is a corsair 430W
Please tell me it was the hard drive. Because i really just want to play my games without these issues!