Thanks to you both. I'm starting to think it's not a hardware issue ;-) ....as for the Grifting, I'm usually speed farming 65-70s solo for gem leveling or doing 80+ pushing... but I tend to notice it even in regular TX rifts at least once per rift (so roughly once every 3-4 mins?)..about the same timing in GRs..once or twice per.
Hopefully time will just iron out whatever kink it is! Seems like it's probably out of my (our) control.
Appreciate the help!
If you want to get really into the weeds, then you can mark down the time every time it happens and see if it is cyclical. Could be a cronjob. Also, check to make sure that you don't have a virus. I've worked in tech for a while and I've seen viruses that do all kinds of weird shit.
Playing diablo with that system is like trying to kill a fly with a nuclear bomb. It sounds like you need to upgrade.
As long as your power supply has 40+A on the 12v rails, then you'll be fine on that end. Hell, you could probably run 2-3 card SLI on that thing. CPU temp is fine, watercooled gpu should be fine two unless it's leaked and it's out of coolant. Network sounds fine. Driver didn't affect performance and resources look fine...
Only two things I can think of are: 1) bios needs to be updated. 2)the D3 client is doing something weird with your hardware. It was recently updated with patches, so that could be cascading down. Other than that, I'm not sure. You could try throwing in another card to see if it is that in-case it is a hidden issue with the gpu.
In terms of getting a new system, that is up to you but I might wait for a little while. I compared your cpu to the one I got and it's on par. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6500. The only reason I got my skylake was because my other computer was having hardware issues and my wife told me to upgrade the system because some components were going on 7 years old. It's a nice chipset, but I don't see much performance difference on the day-to-day stuff from my old 955 black edition. Crunching files and encoding is faster but gaming (for D3 at least) is even. If you wait for the skylake architecture to mature a little, then you might get more benefit from it in the long-run. It's your money though, so do what you want.
Forgot to add, a thing that makes Diablo a little different that most other modern games is that it isn't very GPU intensive. The processor has to push a lot of calculations through the client, so it could be a processor issue. It might not be a speed thing, but the way the chipset is prioritizing threads to/from the processor.
So, there could be a good number of things. If I'm casting a wide-net, then that is why.
1. Did you recently update your drivers on the card? If so, have you tried to roll them back to see if it the issue? If not, are you patched to the latest version?
2. Have you checked to see if there are any processes from other applications that may be causing the problem? I noticed that my new computer was having moments where it tanked (and sometimes forced my mouse to click off the window). I found out that it was a process in my AV software that was running a spot check for software updates. I rescheduled that process and my problem went away.
3. Is it network lag and it just looks like an fps drop because of the way the client is reacting to the lag?
4. Is your card in SLI?
5. Do you have enough power going to the card? Do you have enough AMPs on the 12v rail for the card? I've seen cards meter themselves down when they are getting to the safety threshold on power supplies.
6. How hot is your card getting during peak load? Similar to the power issue above, a system can meter itself down to ensure that it doesn't overheat.
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Playing diablo with that system is like trying to kill a fly with a nuclear bomb. It sounds like you need to upgrade.
As long as your power supply has 40+A on the 12v rails, then you'll be fine on that end. Hell, you could probably run 2-3 card SLI on that thing. CPU temp is fine, watercooled gpu should be fine two unless it's leaked and it's out of coolant. Network sounds fine. Driver didn't affect performance and resources look fine...
Only two things I can think of are: 1) bios needs to be updated. 2)the D3 client is doing something weird with your hardware. It was recently updated with patches, so that could be cascading down. Other than that, I'm not sure. You could try throwing in another card to see if it is that in-case it is a hidden issue with the gpu.
In terms of getting a new system, that is up to you but I might wait for a little while. I compared your cpu to the one I got and it's on par. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6500. The only reason I got my skylake was because my other computer was having hardware issues and my wife told me to upgrade the system because some components were going on 7 years old. It's a nice chipset, but I don't see much performance difference on the day-to-day stuff from my old 955 black edition. Crunching files and encoding is faster but gaming (for D3 at least) is even. If you wait for the skylake architecture to mature a little, then you might get more benefit from it in the long-run. It's your money though, so do what you want.
Forgot to add, a thing that makes Diablo a little different that most other modern games is that it isn't very GPU intensive. The processor has to push a lot of calculations through the client, so it could be a processor issue. It might not be a speed thing, but the way the chipset is prioritizing threads to/from the processor.
So, there could be a good number of things. If I'm casting a wide-net, then that is why.
1. Did you recently update your drivers on the card? If so, have you tried to roll them back to see if it the issue? If not, are you patched to the latest version?
2. Have you checked to see if there are any processes from other applications that may be causing the problem? I noticed that my new computer was having moments where it tanked (and sometimes forced my mouse to click off the window). I found out that it was a process in my AV software that was running a spot check for software updates. I rescheduled that process and my problem went away.
3. Is it network lag and it just looks like an fps drop because of the way the client is reacting to the lag?
4. Is your card in SLI?
5. Do you have enough power going to the card? Do you have enough AMPs on the 12v rail for the card? I've seen cards meter themselves down when they are getting to the safety threshold on power supplies.
6. How hot is your card getting during peak load? Similar to the power issue above, a system can meter itself down to ensure that it doesn't overheat.