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I'm a hardcore gamer and I use Windows 8.1. Recently, I've been noticing some unwanted issues, and I was wondering if people who were more experienced with Windows, and with computer hardware in general could help me. I built my computer from scratch, so my specs aren't usual. You can see them here: enter image description here

Here's the issue. I open Google Chrome first when I start my process, so that I can listen to some music while I'm gaming. I then open Minecraft, and launch it. As Minecraft is launching, the music becomes stuttered, and any video is choppy. This happens for the five to ten seconds that minecraft takes to load. After that it goes back to normal, but occasionally while playing this will happen again. Does anyone have an idea to what causes this? I would like to fix this issue however I can, even buying new hardware. To start however, is there a software/user controlled way to fix this? If not, what hardware could I upgrade to improve this?

David
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By looking at your specs, I'd say the CPU is the problem. Your CPU is a dual core that does not support hyper threading. What's happening is that your CPU can't keep up and its usage is getting maxed out. The high CPU usage is the cause of your intermittent choppy audio and video.

Trying to explain this in layman terms, when your CPU can't keep up with all of the tasks on hand, processes can be paused and forced to wait for its turn to run again. When this happens your music is probably being held back from being able to process and do it's thing. Certain I/O operations have a lower priority than other tasks. Scheduling is very complex and there are many ways to implement it.

If you'd like to read more into it, you can start with a wiki page

DrZoo
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I would guess that minecraft is utilizing your hard drive while its loading which is causing chrome to freeze or studder.

If this was happening to me and I wanted to fix it I would purchase an SSD to put my games on.

Something like this. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAJ5N6I/ref=twister_B00PRDMHLU?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

LethalRose
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