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Tried disabling the hyperthreading and it did not work. mainly because it would get really hot and start to throttle when it couldn't offload the information to the other 4 "cores". I lowered the clocks on it back from level 3 and also modified the flex ratio so instead of reading 25 it reads 0 now. I did that so the temps would not be so high thus causing it to throttle back. That helped with the throttling. I also turned off C-states, and disabled speedstep. It improved it, but i would see my frames drop to like 2 then jump up to 50 and it was kinda pausing but definitely not as bad as before. I would still be able to move and stuff. I still think the problem is somewhat there, but with c-states and speedstep off it helps.

I'm on High (on everything except shadows. That is set to medium) its on SSAO 2x multi 2x AA. That screenshot in game was the clocks at normal.

Here it is. I feel the information correlates with what I was saying because the C0 state of the processor is low and then it spikes in game and causes that mini-freeze (As noted in the overlay by the spike). Every time I got the mini freeze it spiked like that. Screenshot(I used a website because the forum didn't like my resolution lol): Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting 2012-24-06.txt

Honestly I don't think it's the hybrid drives because that doesn't make sense. I think it's the fluctuation in power from the CPU. I don't quite understand your ruling out of the CPU by that test. If I return them to stock it will happen more, that is a given. That's because the CPU cannot maintain a constantly high clock to process the information from the GPU. I will do what you asked though and we can go from there. Thanks for the reply, Lunch

Okay, sorry if this is elsewhere I really tried my best to look at every search result, but none have exactly what I am looking for. What is happening and what I want to do to remedy this situation: In BF3 I get these random pauses. The game will just stop and then about 2 seconds later pick up where it left off, but most of the time leaving me to die. The problem, from what I have read and the tests I have done in game (render.perfoverlay crap to see my CPU spiking randomly for no reason when I was alone in a server), is that the CPU when it turbo boosts hits a high clock around 4 GHz (factory OC) then it drops to around 2.5Ghz spiking the cpu load in the process and making my gameplay stop for a second or two while bf3 gets used to the new clock. I want to know how I can raise the lower limit of the turbo boost to remedy this problem. I don't want to push my system to it's "limits" I just want to raise the bottom variable so that it doesn't have such a surge of performance then drops all of a sudden. Any information you can provide about the processor and what actually is happening would help increase my understanding of what is going on. As of now, this is my theory on what is happening. I have unlocked bios set on the "Level 3" overclock leftover from when i flashed from the locked ones. I have the ThrottleStop program and have a general understanding of it's functioning. Hope you can help, Lunch Rig, M18x R1 6970s in CF with a 2920XM i7 factory overclocked to 4GHz 16 GB ddr3 @ 1600MHz 2 Samsung Hybrid drives in RAID 0 (hope that helps you guys)