AMD FX 8320 - Having CPU SPIKES

[Antonx96]

Having CPU SPIKES and its lowering the performance of my games makes it feels sluggish/laggy/choppy w/e.. and makes the mouse movement choppy.

Im wondering if there is any fix for this, im not that good at BIOS or whatever so i don't want to touch anything without asking first.

SPECS
AMD FX 8320
MSI GTX 960 2gb
Kingston 240GB SSD
8GB RAM DDR3 Corsair
600W EVGA.
GA-970a-Ds3P MOBO

MOBO and CPU is 10 days old so i don't think its broken.

 

[geofelt]

The individual core speeds of the FX processors are slow, and that can lead to your symptoms.
Few games can make good use of more than 2-3 cores and many depend on the performance of a fast single master core.
The normal way to help would be to overclock your FX-8320.
Unfortunately, you do not have a motherboard that is suitable for overclocking.
Do some research on how to overclock and give it a try though, possibly a small overclock will help.
Here is some info on the motherboards:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2384024/motherboard-tier-list-970-chipset.html

 

[Antonx96]

The individual core speeds of the FX processors are slow, and that can lead to your symptoms.
Few games can make good use of more than 2-3 cores and many depend on the performance of a fast single master core.
The normal way to help would be to overclock your FX-8320.
Unfortunately, you do not have a motherboard that is suitable for overclocking.
Do some research on how to overclock and give it a try though, possibly a small overclock will help.
Here is some info on the motherboards:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2384024/motherboard-tier-list-970-chipset.html

Could this also make my FPS a lot worse?

Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[geofelt]

Overclocking successfully can only make things better.

I am no expert on overclocking FX processors.
But, it occurs to me that you might be able to improve your gaming performance if you can shut off half of your threads.
Few games can make use of more than 2-3 threads.
The FX architecture has 4 modules with two threads each that share some resources. My thought is that if you were to be able to have each core have the full resources, you could do better.
Do some google work on this if you are interested.

As an experiment, remove a couple of cores. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option. set the number of processors to less than you have. You will need to reboot for the change to take effect.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many cores.

I would like to now how this impacts YOUR games, also tell me what game it is.

 

[Antonx96]

Overclocking successfully can only make things better.

I am no expert on overclocking FX processors.
But, it occurs to me that you might be able to improve your gaming performance if you can shut off half of your threads.
Few games can make use of more than 2-3 threads.
The FX architecture has 4 modules with two threads each that share some resources. My thought is that if you were to be able to have each core have the full resources, you could do better.
Do some google work on this if you are interested.

As an experiment, remove a couple of cores. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option. set the number of processors to less than you have. You will need to reboot for the change to take effect.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many cores.

I would like to now how this impacts YOUR games, also tell me what game it is.

I'm mostly playing CSGO and its very noticeable there, since u pretty much move ur mouse 24/7.
I tried the msconfig thing and my fps is a lot better actually im gonna look more into this it seems to run better i think default was 8 i run it now at 4.

It's not 100% fixed but its playable now at least, until i get a new MOBO

Thanks a ton dude!

 

[Antonx96]

Also should i try disabling things like Cool'N quiet, Turbo Core thingy etc..