PC likes to stutter

[blαh2355]

For some reason and lately and more frequently, my games stutter after about 10 minutes of playing them, especially source games. I still get 100+ fps but it stutters like hell and the sound skips/pops. I'm pretty sure all my drivers are up to date and my hardware is more than enough to handle it. I have to restart my computer that magically fixes it somehow. I would like some help on this

[coolzeldad]

Temperatures, what are they like and how do they change when you start playing games, etc.?

specs?

[blαh2355]

CPU: i7 870
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5770
RAM: 8 GB

Idle temps
CPU: 35 C
GPU: 50 C

Game temps (max)
CPU: 45 C
GPU: 84 C

Doesn't seem to happen recently as much as before but I would still like to get to the bottom of this if it occurs again.

[coolzeldad]

Gpu kind of high but not horrible, temps could have changed?

Could be a resource conflict, running Windows 7? 8? 8.1?

[blαh2355]

temps could have changed?

Could you explain what you mean?

Could be a resource conflict, running Windows 7? 8? 8.1?

Ah sorry, Windows 7.