FPS Drops Almost Every Game

[Jamli]

Hey!

I've been playing many different games now like: Arma 3, DayZ, LoL, Wolfenstein ET (hell yeah!) and i have FPS issues in almost every game i play.

Example: normal FPS in Arma is ~30-40fps and then bam! drops to ~5-10fps for about 5-10 second and then goes back to 30-40fps. I've searched something about this from google, and i think issue is my CPU. But i have tried to overclock it, but didn't help much (probably nothing).

So any advice's to get my FPS going stable?

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8120 (3.1-3.5Ghz) i have different cooler for it.
GPU: ASUS GTX 670 (Base clock)
Some Asus motherboard (dont remember it now)
8GB Ram 1600Mhz
250gb SSD & 1TB HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate

Thanks already for any help!

 

[LucoTF]

New motherboard is the optimal solution but it's also the most expensive

Adding more case fans and VRM / Mosfet heat spreaders is a fairly cheap solution (could do it for £10 gbp) but you may still need 2 of your 8 cores disabled for this to work

I agree with helpstar, I'm not sure if this can be solved for zero investment without a serious impact on performance

 

[madmatt30]

Cutting 2 cores will barely impact game performance IMO,6 cores is plenty for 99% of games out there - the board is no doubt the problem.
The prob is youre still running stock voltage for 8 cores & its very likely keeping temps higher - bulldozer 8 cores have insanely high stock votages - I'm at work again now - the time difference makes things awkward.
I can run you through things when I'm at home later if you're online.
You may well be looking at a ghetto vrm cooling mod to get any kind of stability + a voltage drop
Your evo 212 is not helping matters at all when it cones to vrm cooling.
Its not an ideal situation to be in but its not an impossible one either.

 

[Jamli]

Cutting 2 cores will barely impact game performance IMO,6 cores is plenty for 99% of games out there - the board is no doubt the problem.
The prob is youre still running stock voltage for 8 cores & its very likely keeping temps higher - bulldozer 8 cores have insanely high stock votages - I'm at work again now - the time difference makes things awkward.
I can run you through things when I'm at home later if you're online.
You may well be looking at a ghetto vrm cooling mod to get any kind of stability + a voltage drop
Your evo 212 is not helping matters at all when it cones to vrm cooling.
Its not an ideal situation to be in but its not an impossible one either.

Yeah, I think I will be online at evening (I live in Finland GMT +2) or unless I get something else to do than play 😀 Thanks for helping me sort this out!

 

[madmatt30]

just home mate,
just to prove what you can do with that board if you can get some secondary cooling on the vrm's - this is my own setup - I dont run at that speed normally - stick to 4ghz as its an htpc lounge setup ,all my fans are synced to the cpu fan/ temps & silence is more important to me than outright performance - at 4.3 all the fans are pertty much full tilt which upsets the mrs 😉
it is solid as a rock at 4.3 on reasonably low voltage - bear in mind this is a cherry picked 6300,you wont get the same kind of results even with only 6 cores running but you 'should' be able to get decent performance with no throttling



Im going to peruse your setup & see what I can suggest over the rest of the evening - it may be tomorrow before I post proper as Ill look at my upstairs rig which has the evo fitted & see if theres some way to rig up an horizontal fan off the cooler to cool the vrm's

 

[Jamli]

just home mate,
just to prove what you can do with that board if you can get some secondary cooling on the vrm's - this is my own setup - I dont run at that speed normally - stick to 4ghz as its an htpc lounge setup ,all my fans are synced to the cpu fan/ temps & silence is more important to me than outright performance - at 4.3 all the fans are pertty much full tilt which upsets the mrs 😉
it is solid as a rock at 4.3 on reasonably low voltage - bear in mind this is a cherry picked 6300,you wont get the same kind of results even with only 6 cores running but you 'should' be able to get decent performance with no throttling



Im going to peruse your setup & see what I can suggest over the rest of the evening - it may be tomorrow before I post proper as Ill look at my upstairs rig which has the evo fitted & see if theres some way to rig up an horizontal fan off the cooler to cool the vrm's

I boosted my clocks to 3.5Ghz and I am playing CSGO right now, without seeing any drops. Max temp is 44C atm
Should I maybe try boost more ?

 

[madmatt30]

just home mate,
just to prove what you can do with that board if you can get some secondary cooling on the vrm's - this is my own setup - I dont run at that speed normally - stick to 4ghz as its an htpc lounge setup ,all my fans are synced to the cpu fan/ temps & silence is more important to me than outright performance - at 4.3 all the fans are pertty much full tilt which upsets the mrs 😉
it is solid as a rock at 4.3 on reasonably low voltage - bear in mind this is a cherry picked 6300,you wont get the same kind of results even with only 6 cores running but you 'should' be able to get decent performance with no throttling



Im going to peruse your setup & see what I can suggest over the rest of the evening - it may be tomorrow before I post proper as Ill look at my upstairs rig which has the evo fitted & see if theres some way to rig up an horizontal fan off the cooler to cool the vrm's

I boosted my clocks to 3.5Ghz and I am playing CSGO right now, without seeing any drops. Max temp is 44C atm
Should I maybe try boost more ?

Id be interested in seeing your mb temps under a decent load mate - you can see above mine pretty much sit at 20-23c all day long - that is down to the ghetto mod I did myself - it was far easier for me as I have a big shuriken blower cooler with 2x120mm fans strapped together blowind down onto the heatsink & vrm area.

LucoTF made a decent suggestion early on in this thread & thats simply to get yourself a front intake fan installed if you dont have one.

Ill be honest after going through the thread & checking your screen captures - there is one that shows the vrm temps & they didnt look anyting extreme imo - It may be that just setting the multiplier manually to 17.5 ( Im assuming this is what you did to pull 3.5ghz?) has stabilised things

are you running that msrtweaker batch file on boot??
If not I would ,it doesnt hurt things in the least ,right click the off.bat file & create shortcut ,then drag the shortcut into start/all programs/ start up folder & it will run on boot every time automatically

 

[Jamli]

just home mate,
just to prove what you can do with that board if you can get some secondary cooling on the vrm's - this is my own setup - I dont run at that speed normally - stick to 4ghz as its an htpc lounge setup ,all my fans are synced to the cpu fan/ temps & silence is more important to me than outright performance - at 4.3 all the fans are pertty much full tilt which upsets the mrs 😉
it is solid as a rock at 4.3 on reasonably low voltage - bear in mind this is a cherry picked 6300,you wont get the same kind of results even with only 6 cores running but you 'should' be able to get decent performance with no throttling



Im going to peruse your setup & see what I can suggest over the rest of the evening - it may be tomorrow before I post proper as Ill look at my upstairs rig which has the evo fitted & see if theres some way to rig up an horizontal fan off the cooler to cool the vrm's

I boosted my clocks to 3.5Ghz and I am playing CSGO right now, without seeing any drops. Max temp is 44C atm
Should I maybe try boost more ?

Id be interested in seeing your mb temps under a decent load mate - you can see above mine pretty much sit at 20-23c all day long - that is down to the ghetto mod I did myself - it was far easier for me as I have a big shuriken blower cooler with 2x120mm fans strapped together blowind down onto the heatsink & vrm area.

LucoTF made a decent suggestion early on in this thread & thats simply to get yourself a front intake fan installed if you dont have one.

Ill be honest after going through the thread & checking your screen captures - there is one that shows the vrm temps & they didnt look anyting extreme imo - It may be that just setting the multiplier manually to 17.5 ( Im assuming this is what you did to pull 3.5ghz?) has stabilised things

are you running that msrtweaker batch file on boot??
If not I would ,it doesnt hurt things in the least ,right click the off.bat file & create shortcut ,then drag the shortcut into start/all programs/ start up folder & it will run on boot every time automatically

Here's some screenshots from my temps 'n things:
http://gyazo.com/6e9208402d367369babbf798cc104932
http://gyazo.com/570706234b63b3d626f07e65fe317fe9

Now I have CSGO running in backround and stream too. I did overclock with system you said, and no, I don't have that batch file used.

Edit: I should download GPU Tweaker to set my GPU fans more higher! I know but I'm too lazy to download it 😀

Edit2: I downloaded it, and put fans to 80% (temps are around <50C when gaming)

 

[bmacsys]

And your doubts, sir, are based on...?

On him knowing the issue isn't with the cpu. It is with the vrm's overheating and therefore throttling the cpu so they don't fail.

 

[madmatt30]

keep us nformed mate,I would replace the mb in all honesty should you come into some money😉

To the mods - I managed to select arno8's reply as best answer while browsing this thread on my touchscreen mobile,its happened a few times while scrolling & really needs disabling on the mobile site imo.