Question CPU Utilization Spikes to 100%, GPU to 0% when gaming.

[higgily]

Take me launching Cyberpunk 2077 for example, we'll be fine for about a minute then the CPU will decide to take over (causing massive stuttering and freezing slowing down my PC to nearly a standstill) and the GPU will dip in usage completely then go back to normal and does this intermittently throughout my session making it borderline unplayable, this problem persists throughout every game I try to play.


I've honestly got no clue what's happening but I believe this problem has been getting worse overtime. I thought I might've done something in system settings to cause this and did a factory reset but it's still happening. I'm not a big hardware nut but would appreciate trying to find out if it's a hardware issue such as degrading parts or if it's just easily fixable.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Motherboard: BIOSTAR Group B550MH
RAM: 16GB

 

[sizzling]

Is the game installed on an SSD or HDD?
What are the cpu and gpu temperatures when the dips happen?

 

[higgily]

My games are currently running off an SSD and the GPU and CPUs don't end up going above 75, let alone 90+.

 

[sizzling]

Can you run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.

 

[higgily]

No worries, here you go.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/56030008

 

[higgily]

I also decided to do it another time and in this one the same issue persisted as it didn't with the other one.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/56030051

 

[higgily]

Judging by the benchmarks it seems my RAM is underperforming by quite a margin and might be the problem? I impulsively bought some better ones and hopefully they do the trick but a professional opinion on whether this was the right action would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[higgily]

After some more rigorous testing using "HWinfo" and watching it alongside me playing a game I noticed the Power Reporting Accuracy (third table) is always quite low outside of gaming and spikes to nearly 160% at most! Also according to the "Yes" Marking underneath its determining it to be a motherboard issue and HFC issue, so I'm not sure if it's a PSU problem or what now. This is all very confusing for me I'm afraid.

EDIT: Forgot to post this link regarding the HWinfo Monitoring:

https://imgur.com/WDwxiB6

View: https://i.imgur.com/WDwxiB6.png