Dropped frames due to bottle-necking?

[gxrobb]

Hello, Im fairly new here, so im not sure if this is the correct place for this thread but my question is as follows.

I recently played the beta for Tom Clancy's The Division and the game was frankly unplayable. This came as a shock to me because I had recently upgraded most of my hardware. I have upgraded it again since, and the issue is better, but it still persists. I am at my wit's end because when I ask it to auto calibrate, it sets everything to ultra, which frankly, it should be able to handle, and more. I noticed that I had similar issues on FarCry 4, as well as another game that I am testing and currently under NDA, although I feel that the issues I have with that game are on my end and not it's state of alpha.


The specs that I had for the first time I tried The Division were as follows.

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
DirectX Version 12
Motherboard: MSI Gaming z97 5 LGA 1150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130770&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I74790K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Stock Fan, Stock Clock)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

RAM: HyperX Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model HX316C10FBK2/16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104445&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

Graphics: MSI Geforce gtx 970

HDD: kingston 120gb SSD,(OS DISK) seagate 3TB HD, western digital 2TB HD, HyperX 240SSDx2 RAID 0(I record gaming to these drives)

I have 3 monitors, 2 of which are connected to the video card, one of which is connected via a j5DisplayLink Adapter, USB3, via PLUGABLE USB3 Hub.

After a few weeks of struggling with those games, I decided to upgrade a little bit, so I went with the same system settings but replaced the following

HDD: Crucial 240GB SSD (OS DISK)
Graphics: MSI Geforce GTX 980 TI

I am fairly certain that my rig is more than capable of running those games without any lag, at ANY graphics setting, I have tested with lowering the graphics to the lowest possible setting and it still randomly drops frames. I have noticed that my CPU goes to almost 100% in these games, I'm not sure if that is normal or not, I'm afraid I am currently out of ideas. My best guess is that something is slowing down my hardware and bottle-necking it.

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thank you

 

[garyshows]

whats the temps of your cpu when the fps drops?

 

[garyshows]

also what power supply do you have

 

[gxrobb]

Thanks for the quick reply, I am not sure for the temperature, I will have to run some tests and get some answers later tonight, but the hottest I have ever seen it get is 75C, as for the power supply, it is an 750wat msi i believe, I would have to double check

 

[gxrobb]

also what power supply do you have

Hey, I just checked, my power supply is an 800, my CPU runs at an average of 50 when i am on my desktop, when I run the game, it runs between 70 and the highest I got it to was 84, that was when I was experiencing frame rate drops. the drops were from 60fps to 9, pretty frequent, whenever i move, it jumps 10 frames then randomly drops down by 40-50 frames.

I currently am running the stock fan, i did a test and with the game running, the same temperatures are met, the fan RPM is 1700ish



UPDATE*

I just swapped out my heatsink, I am using now a corair H100i liquid cooling heatsink, it made an incredible difference as far as CPU temp, the highest it got during gameplay was 51C, however I am still experiencing dropped frames.


UPDATE*

I overclocked my cpu to 4400MHz with the msi gaming app and it helped a little bit, but not enough, the highest the CPU temp got was 67C