1050ti + i7-8700 - constant stuttering

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rbdoremus13

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When doing any gaming I have an intermittent, random stutter accompanied with a "brrrrtt" sound. When gaming (anything from Starcraft 2 to Fallout 4) it always corresponds with drop in FPS.

I tried the following with no results:
Change vertical sync setting to "Adaptive"
Turn off all power-saving modes from CPU and GPU settings and prefer high performance.
Problem seems to be just as bad regardless of graphics settings in Fallout 4 - Low or High same problem. It's annoying the bejesus out of me - just got this computer.

Dell XPS 8th gen desktop tower (Was refurb from microcenter- I know I know bad idea)
Windows 10
i7-8700
GTX 1050 ti
16GB 2666 MHz RAM
1 TB SATA HDD

My CPU is way more powerful than my GPU but that wouldn't cause any problems with getting the most out of my 1050 ti, would it?

THANK YOU KIND-HEARTED STRANGERS!!



 
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jacobweaver800
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I believe the issue is the over powered CPU and the under powered GPU, it could also be other issues such as memory, but most likely the CPU GPU issue. Basically your bottlenecked super hard, you CPU is barely doing anything and your GPU is being pinned. You'll need to scale down your CPU, to say an I5 8400 or 8600, or scale up your GPU to at least a 1060 6gb or faster.
 
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Its weird that would cause a bottleneck because I was under the impression that the 1050ti had a neck wide enough to handle pretty much any game at 1080p 60hz (what my Dell monitor uses). I guess the CPU makes the GPU slower??

Thanks again for your help!! might just have to get that sexy zotac mini 1080 ti and upgrade the power supply.

 
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Yes the GPU is fast enough for 60 fps 1080p gaming, but it's being paired with one of the fastest gaming CPU's on the market, the 1050 ti is like a needle compared to the GPU throughput the 8700 can handle.
 
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Thanks - Would never have thought that a faster CPU could be a bad thing for graphics performance. I have much to learn!

Cheers.
 
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Its not a bad thing as such, just not using the potential of the CPU. Its not going to be any faster with a worse CPU for example.
 
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No your system going brrrrt has most certainly nothing to do with cpu-gpu or bottlenecks between them,it's a driver issue of some part of your hardware that causes trouble.
Get latency monitor and run it for a while,maybe even in the background while gaming,it will show you any problems and even give you hints on what the problem is.
 
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I'm not saying the faster CPU is causing the GPU to run slower, that's not it at all. The fast CPU is allowing the GPU to hit 100% usage. The issue is the CPU is too fast for the GPU, would you not agree? Often times in a system like this the CPU or GPU being way too fast for the other to handle can introduce major stuttering in games, like we are seeing now, and I've seen it happen many times.

As I said above, it could be something else, but I have seen this happen enough times to point that out first.
 
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Also, technically a Fast CPU can slow a slow GPU in games, LTT tested gaming on a 64 core Xeon-Fi CPU with a GTX 1060 6gb, arguably that CPU is super fast but it's slowing down a 1060 heavily.
 
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You didnt understand that video.

The issue there wasnt that the Xeon Phi was fast (its actually very slow in single threaded x86 workloads), its that it was using very low performance cores designed for highly parellel workloads. This CPU is completely different to even regular Xeons and a million miles away from a i5 or i7.
 
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I understood the video, and I know that CPU sucks for gaming because it's poor single threaded performance tanks it in gaming, he even said it in the video. My point was its a fast CPU that will slow a GPU down, proving what the person I quoted wrong.
 
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You're still wrong. a i7 8700 cannot slow a GPU down like a 1050 ti, thats not how bottlenecks work.

The Xeon phi example was a terrible example too and not even relevant to the discussion.

You are just posting incorrect information.
 
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I never said the 8700 was slowing the GPU, I'm saying the CPU is too fast for the GPU which can introduce stuttering.
 
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I doubt it's a hard drive issue, it still could be, drives usually only effect loading times on a game and once all the textures are loaded into memory it shouldn't be an issue.
 
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You suggested the guy downgrade his CPU! Thats up there with the worst advise I have ever seen anyone give out on this forum...

Please stop giving out advice until you have learnt some more.
 
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I said it yes, but I wouldn't do that myself. I left the options on the table for fixing the bottleneck issue. I would recommend a GPU upgrade but not everyone has money to do that in which a CPU downgrade might be necessary to get playable FPS without a bottlenecked system.
 
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It wouldnt fix the problem anyway!

 
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OP, while yes, an 8700 could pair well with a much stronger GPU, that's not the problem here.
1. Are you monitoring utilization in game? Your GPU should be hitting 100% utilization more often than not at 60Hz 1080p, when paired with such a strong CPU.

2. The "brrrtt" sound though, is concerning. While it's impossible to identify based on a description alone, it doesn't sound right at all. Could you post an audio/video clip capturing this noise? Can you identify where it's coming from? GPU, PSU etc?
 
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This is so unbelievably wrong (and yes I've read all the replies as well, there is a clear lack of understanding of how this all works). He is not "Bottlenecked super hard" There is no point that the processor will be pushing the GPU to run faster to the point it would stutter especially that its a modern GPU. If it were an older GPU you would just have the strange situation of the system being unable to run any higher frame rate than the max the GPU could handle which would be a very low number. Stuttering is introduced when the CPU cannot keep up with the GPU, not the other way around.

Bottlenecked super hard is a Core2Duo with a 1080ti, or a i7-8700 with an old Radeon 5450 (which would just have a poor framerate on a modern game because the GPU literally can't process the graphics fast enough for a good framerate). I suggest reading up on this before posting.



While I am in 100% agreement, you as a member do not remove Best Answers to current active threads. Please hit the alert button and notify the moderation team in such a situation. Consider this a warning.
 
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^ This shouldn't be overlooked. It's the correct answer.
 
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The information here is literally garbage. Downgrading a CPU won't fix the problem and could actually make it worse.
 
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