1050ti + i7-8700 - constant stuttering

[rbdoremus13]

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!!

 

[mossberg]

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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[monitorlizard]

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.

Wow.
That is some major fail.

 

[Maebius]

You really need to look into the brrrrttt sound and better explain it to us.
Do you have a second HDD? It might have gone idle and that brrrrtttt sound might be the HDD powering up and that can cause a couple of seconds of stutter.
Does that sound come from your speakers or the computer (the tower) itself?

Your CPU/GPU combo is just fine (could be better, but ok)... don't listen to the CPU downgrade nonsense.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Edit: Wait does the OP have 2 accounts?

 

[Maebius]

LOL, dunno, maybe 3.... one posted, another said he fixed the problem and a third one asked again as if he was the original poster.

 

[TerryLaze]

This thread confused me so much, I am now left with this fact that the CPU is powerful hence the GPU is causing the bottleneck? Can someone with concrete knowledge toss in something.

If either the CPU or the GPU is much more powerful then the other that is called a bottleneck,it just means that you overspend on one component and underspend on the other so you don't get your full moneys worth out of the component you overspend on.
It's a myth that any kind of bottleneck causes stuttering,it has become widespread because of so many console games being configured for consoles that are made up very differently from the way desktops are,toss in the fact that higher core count PCs are less affected (but still affected) and now everybody things that low core count/bottlenecking CPUs cause stutter.

 

[Rogue Leader]

This thread confused me so much, I am now left with this fact that the CPU is powerful hence the GPU is causing the bottleneck? Can someone with concrete knowledge toss in something.

Are you a second account of the original poster of this thread? Ignore anything jacobweaver800 said and the answer is above

If either the CPU or the GPU is much more powerful then the other that is called a bottleneck,it just means that you overspend on one component and underspend on the other so you don't get your full moneys worth out of the component you overspend on.
It's a myth that any kind of bottleneck causes stuttering,it has become widespread because of so many console games being configured for consoles that are made up very differently from the way desktops are,toss in the fact that higher core count PCs are less affected (but still affected) and now everybody things that low core count/bottlenecking CPUs cause stutter.

It is not a myth, a bottleneck can absolutely cause stuttering, when the CPU is significantly slower than the GPU where the GPU is left waiting for data. In the reverse direction it doesn't work like that, however people assume they get stuttering because they are trying to run say a new AAA title at 4k and the GPU simply can't do it.

However just because there is a bottleneck doesn't mean you will get stutter, in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system.

 

[TerryLaze]

It is not a myth, a bottleneck can absolutely cause stuttering, when the CPU is significantly slower than the GPU where the GPU is left waiting for data. In the reverse direction it doesn't work like that, however people assume they get stuttering because they are trying to run say a new AAA title at 4k and the GPU simply can't do it.

However just because there is a bottleneck doesn't mean you will get stutter, in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system.

No it can't it is as you yourself says "in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system" this is the only thing bottleneck causes,if your below a certain threshold,like about 24FPS(movies) ,you get a feeling of not fluid motion,this is not stuttering since it's still a constant frame rate this is "just" slow frame rate.
If your CPU is way too slow it will just give your GPU data at a very slow pace,the CPU won't even be able to feed the GPU that much data at once so that the CPU then has to work very long to get the next batch ready so that the GPU is left waiting.If a CPU is slow then the pacing of data is slow and you get low FPS.

 

[RobCrezz]

It is not a myth, a bottleneck can absolutely cause stuttering, when the CPU is significantly slower than the GPU where the GPU is left waiting for data. In the reverse direction it doesn't work like that, however people assume they get stuttering because they are trying to run say a new AAA title at 4k and the GPU simply can't do it.

However just because there is a bottleneck doesn't mean you will get stutter, in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system.

No it can't it is as you yourself says "in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system" this is the only thing bottleneck causes,if your below a certain threshold,like about 24FPS(movies) ,you get a feeling of not fluid motion,this is not stuttering since it's still a constant frame rate this is "just" slow frame rate.
If your CPU is way too slow it will just give your GPU data at a very slow pace,the CPU won't even be able to feed the GPU that much data at once so that the CPU then has to work very long to get the next batch ready so that the GPU is left waiting.If a CPU is slow then the pacing of data is slow and you get low FPS.

Have you ever seen it when you run a very slow CPU with a capable GPU? It can and does cause stuttering, as its often not a constant frame rate, with some frame latencies going very high.

This is the reverse of what was suggested earlier though.

 

[Rogue Leader]

It is not a myth, a bottleneck can absolutely cause stuttering, when the CPU is significantly slower than the GPU where the GPU is left waiting for data. In the reverse direction it doesn't work like that, however people assume they get stuttering because they are trying to run say a new AAA title at 4k and the GPU simply can't do it.

However just because there is a bottleneck doesn't mean you will get stutter, in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system.

No it can't it is as you yourself says "in most cases the bottleneck just reduces the maximum framerate you can get out of the system" this is the only thing bottleneck causes,if your below a certain threshold,like about 24FPS(movies) ,you get a feeling of not fluid motion,this is not stuttering since it's still a constant frame rate this is "just" slow frame rate.
If your CPU is way too slow it will just give your GPU data at a very slow pace,the CPU won't even be able to feed the GPU that much data at once so that the CPU then has to work very long to get the next batch ready so that the GPU is left waiting.If a CPU is slow then the pacing of data is slow and you get low FPS.

Ok, this is the last thing I'm going to say on it because its NOT the OP's problem. Bottlenecking can and does cause stuttering in some situations where the CPU is significantly slower than the GPU. This is a commonly known issue. If you plug a 1080ti into a Core2Duo system and try to play any new AAA game at high graphics the system will literally stutter as the GPU will be waiting for the CPU to process what it needs to continue drawing the graphics. People do mistakenly call low framerate stutter when its just that they are trying to work beyond the capability of their GPU. For example if the OP cranked the visuals in a new game at 4k on his 1050ti it would run at like 20 fps, not stutter, just slow.

The major problem that you pointed out is people assume a new i3 or a Ryzen 5 would do the same thing (stutter like a Core2Duo) with a 1080ti which is not the case. It takes a very large performance disparity to cause stutter.

Now that we have flushed this thread down the toilet lets leave this alone so the OP can get his actual correct answer that you posted earlier in this thread.

 

[Peter Martin]

driver bugs

 

[TheStig47]

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!!

I had a problem very similar to yours when I built my new i7-8700 GTX 1080 Ti computer. Turned out that the onboard sound was the problem. I ended up buying a dedicated sound card (ASUS Xonar AE 7.1) and installing that. Then I went into the BIOS and turned off the onboard audio so that it could not interfere at all.

So, one way you might test if your onboard audio is the problem is to go into your BIOS and turn it OFF. You will have no sound, of course, but when you boot up, go play one of your games to check for intermittent stuttering. You can't hear the "brrrrtt" sound you mentioned but you are looking for that stuttering. If there is none, then you know your onboard audio is the problem. And THAT can be fixed by replacing it with a dedicated sound card and then disabling onboard sound in BIOS.

The Dell XPS is generally a good computer. I would have no problem buying a refurb desktop computer because most problems can be easily fixed. The average consumer will just return them when there is a problem they can't figure out.

In this case, I think it's your onboard audio interfering intermittently with your gameplay. Your symptoms are exactly what I got when I went to game on my newly built computer - intermittent, random stuttering; a "brrrtt" sound; and a dip in fps while it was happening. Very annoying.