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[SOLVED] Gpu having power and fps drops

Sep 27, 2021
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Hi everyone, i need some help...
this is my first post so go easy on me xd
well basicly it turns out that for a week and a half, my computer has had a recurring problem in terms of performance.
In games, whether online or offline and with low or high gamma,
my pc is giving me fps drops where the screen freezes for about 2 seconds.
I checked several things that could be the cause.
drivers are updated, options of nivida panel in performance.
I even did a Windows reformat but nothing, and checked other options, but nothing has helped me.
Monitoring with MSi afterburner I was able to see that when these drops happen,
my GPU load drops to 20 or even 1% and then goes up again.
I tried various things regarding my gpu. but it still doesn't work.
If it is true that I have not thoroughly cleaned the pc for a long time.
However the temperature of the gpu and cpu are in good condition.
My specs are:
Intel core i7 9700k
16Gb x2 of ram for a total of 32Gb
2 Tera hard drive and a 512GB SSD
RTX 2060 Super 8GB M ventus card with a 750W bronze power supply
24 inch 144hz monitor
Motherboard As rock z390 Steel legend
 
Solution
Hi everyone, i need some help...
this is my first post so go easy on me xd
well basicly it turns out that for a week and a half, my computer has had a recurring problem in terms of performance.
In games, whether online or offline and with low or high gamma,
my pc is giving me fps drops where the screen freezes for about 2 seconds.
I checked several things that could be the cause.
drivers are updated, options of nivida panel in performance.
I even did a Windows reformat but nothing, and checked other options, but nothing has helped me.
Monitoring with MSi afterburner I was able to see that when these drops happen,
my GPU load drops to 20 or even 1% and then goes up again.
I tried various things regarding my gpu. but it still doesn't...
Hi everyone, i need some help...
this is my first post so go easy on me xd
well basicly it turns out that for a week and a half, my computer has had a recurring problem in terms of performance.
In games, whether online or offline and with low or high gamma,
my pc is giving me fps drops where the screen freezes for about 2 seconds.
I checked several things that could be the cause.
drivers are updated, options of nivida panel in performance.
I even did a Windows reformat but nothing, and checked other options, but nothing has helped me.
Monitoring with MSi afterburner I was able to see that when these drops happen,
my GPU load drops to 20 or even 1% and then goes up again.
I tried various things regarding my gpu. but it still doesn't work.
If it is true that I have not thoroughly cleaned the pc for a long time.
However the temperature of the gpu and cpu are in good condition.
My specs are:
Intel core i7 9700k
16Gb x2 of ram for a total of 32Gb
2 Tera hard drive and a 512GB SSD
RTX 2060 Super 8GB M ventus card with a 750W bronze power supply
24 inch 144hz monitor
Motherboard As rock z390 Steel legend
try this step by step (read until end):
  • Disconnect from internet
  • Uninstall gpu driver DDU (clean and do not restart).
  • Uninstall all the processors on device manager (should be 8 on yours, also when it asks for restart, click on no) like this:
    unknown.png
  • Restart the pc to bios, and update to the latest bios. Then go to bios again after update and load default or optimized settings.

  • boot up to windows and install the latest Chipset driver, reboot, and connect to internet.

  • Install the latest nvidia driver.

    *you might want to take off the ram and gpu to clean their contacts before doing so

    *do this all offline until reboot after installing chipset driver, also you may reboot to bios after all of this to set the XMP (and previous settings you did) and make sure ram is on slot 2 and 4 if you use 2 sticks. Download needed files (highlighted word) before doing step 1, do the step by orders.
  • And check windows update (and optional updates) if there is any and install them (except chipset in optional update). Also enable Hardware Accelerated Graphics Scheduling (available on the latest win 10 update) in graphics settings like this and reboot:
    unknown.png
Make sure the psu connected to the gpu is 1 pcie cable per 1 slot (use main cable, not the branches/split) like this:
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Solution