FPS drops, any suggestions?

[Kankkunen]

Alright so, i recently upgraded my pc with new processor and after that, there have been fps drops. The avg performance have improved with +10 fps, but now i get like 5 second fps drops once a while. I'am not quite sure which causes this and would be nice to have some help

and also, in most games my gpu usage is only around 60% and i still cant keep up the 60 fps..could this be just bad optimization from games or is it that i lack performance? i got the drivers updated etc. and tried vsync off and on

My specs:
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M usb3
Processor: FX-8350 (old one was fx-6100)
Graphic Card: Asus AMD R9 280x
Storage: 1tera HDD, 128gb SSD
ram: 8gb(2x4gb) kingstone 1333mhz
psu: coolermaster gx bronze 550w

 

[SHADE117]

what are your CPU and GPU temps like?

 

[i7Baby]

fps drops are normal. Especially in demanding games eg BF4.

Some games will want a better CPU eg Watch Dogs (i7)

 

[Kankkunen]

what are your CPU and GPU temps like?

My gpu is usually close to 50c and cpu at 40-45c

 

[SHADE117]

what are your CPU and GPU temps like?

My gpu is usually close to 50c and cpu at 40-45c

so it´s not overheating.... in which games is this happening?

 

[1N07]

FPS drops are fairly common. Which games are you having the problem with? Your CPU shouldn't be a bottleneck...

If the GPU usage is only at 60% and temperature 50 or less then the game is definitely not utilizing all of the GPU power, so either it's not a very demanding game or something is wrong...

 

[Kankkunen]

Right now its happening in battlefield 4(didnt happen on my old fx6100) and game called firefall

 

[Kankkunen]

And forgot to mention about battlefield 4, its more like regular drops than over usage since even if i afk at base i sometimes get the 5 sec drops

 

[i7Baby]

The more you play BF4, the more you progress through increasingly graphically demanding scenes - more action - and the higher the graphics load and so the lower your fps. Happens to every one.

It also gets complicated by the unresolved problems with BF4 - http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/news/view/bf4-top-issues-tracker/