New Build "Jerky" In General Use

[chivs688]

Just built this PC:

 

Intel Core i5-2500K & Asus P8P67 Intel P67 Motherboard Bundle

Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2

XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply

Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case With Fan Cooler

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

 

 

Everything went well and I got it up and running. Installed Windows 7 when prompted, and it started up perfectly.

 

However, I'm noticing that it's very "jerky" while just using it in general. It can be seen on things like simply opening a new tab in Chrome, it stutters and jerks as it slides across rather than just smoothly sliding. And just in general with everything you can definitely tell its being pretty juttery.

 

However it's running very quickly though, as things load up immediately and tasks that would be slow on my relatively budget laptop are completed at a fraction of the time.

 

I have installed all the latest drivers for everything, done all the updates, made sure no programs are eating up a lot of ram or anything like that.

 

Any idea why it might be doing this?

 

Really quite demoralizing when you've spent so much on it :/

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to FPCH,

 

I can find 2 options from the GTX480 series from the Asus site:

 

ENGTX480/2DI/1536MD5

ENGTX480/G/2DI/1536MD5

 

Not sure where you got your drivers from - try direct from the Asus site.

http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/NVIDIA_Series/ENGTX480G2DI1536MD5/

 

If the drivers are up-to-date try taking one of the RAM modules out and running on the other.

Swap them over if the problem is the same.

I am thinking that there may be a problem with one of the modules.

 

Failing that:

If you have a different Video card - try running on this.