What fixed my stuttering

[BrzI 26]

Hi folks,

was running an old i4770K overclocked at 4.4GHz and no hyperthreading.

Suffered from heavy stuttering, high CPU temps and the occasional high-temp-induced protective lockup.

Then I went into my BIOS:

Dropped overclock to 4.2 GHz
Enabled hyperthreading
Lowered CPU voltage from 1.346 to 1.2.

Night and day.

Stutters much less severe, occur less frequently than before. last much shorter and the improvement in smoothness is visible.

And my old CPU runs much cooler without sacrificing performance at all.

My moral : give it threads - not GHz.

This one is now a keeper. Thank you Asobo/MS.