Question I upgraded my RAM and SSD on my Nitro 5, but the CPU usage maxed out, and i've been getting FPS drops when gaming, and considerably less FPS.

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vincentdebacayan

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Hello, i have a AN515-52 which I've had for almost a year, which i used for school but mainly for gaming. I got an upgrade for the Memory and the Storage just today, here are the previous specs:
  • Windows 10
  • Intel i5 8300H, 2.3GHz
  • 8GB DDR4 RAM, 2400Hz (two 4GB in each available slot, one was 2667Hz, which was at slot B of my laptop, while the 2400 Hz was at slot A, so the system read 2400Hz, although i'm not entirely sure if thats how it works)
  • 1 TB HDD, with around 200-150 GB free
  • GTX 1050 (website says the laptop offers 1050 Ti, although iirc when buying this it only had 1050, and Device Manager says 1050 only)
  • 60 Hz screen
My issue is regarding gaming, I mostly, religiously play Rainbow Six Siege at low settings, and i got:
  • 95 - 120 Fps,as reported by the in game FPS display, but my display only caps at 60.
  • CPU usage was around 65% - 80% usage
  • RAM was 70% - 80%.
Considering that i had 2/3 or double more FPS i could display was capped out by my screen, i wanted a 120Hz screen upgrade, but i had to set my priorities straight first, and decided to make the Laptop perform better all around, so i got a RAM and SSD upgrade first, and then planning to upgrade the screen in the future. Here are the system changes:
  • Removed 2400 Hz 4gb RAM from slot A, and replacing it with a 8GB 2667 Hz RAM, so i have 12 GB in my system.
  • Added 256 GB of SSD storage, moved windows 10 there, and installed Steam and copied my game to the SSD from the HDD.
I then reinstalled GeForce Experience, and NitroSense (CPU temp and usage monitoring, and manipulates Fan speed for gaming). The upgrades i observed seemed to have made gaming worse (?).
  • CPU Usage maxes out at 100%, 3.98 GHz (I think this how RAM upgrades work, but i'm not entirely sure).
  • mostly 90 FPS, ranging from 85 - 100. making me second guess my screen upgrade, which feels kinda wasteful now it doesn't reach 120 Fps for a 120Hz screen replacement.
  • FPS drops to 30-40 FPS, for 2-4 seconds, and happens around 3 or 4 times in a 45 minute game.
Why does it seem like my upgrade made the performance worse? What can i do?
 
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Phaaze88 said:
Remove the 8GBs of ram, put the 4GBs back, and see what happens.
I suspect you lost dual channel mode when you did the switch earlier.
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Hello! I'm sorry for the late reply, as i was caught up with college work. I did what you asked, and it seems like the problems followed through here, 95-110 FPS, and fps drops.

Edit: I checked CPU-Z with my 12 GB ram back, and it said it was running dual channel mode.
 
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Phaaze88 said:
I missed this from the userbench results:
Memory0.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Check Task Manager and Resource monitor. What is eating up all that ram?
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It's either My Game (rainbow six siege) + a bit of Steam's background processes, or firefox when i'm not playing. When i play, i only have the game running, no other apps.
 
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vincentdebacayan said:
It's either My Game (rainbow six siege) + a bit of Steam's background processes, or firefox when i'm not playing. When i play, i only have the game running, no other apps.
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R6 Seige is eating up TEN GIGS of memory? REALLY?
At the time of this post, I have 23 tabs of Firefox + Steam open, and that's not even 2GBs.

Userbench should've flagged you for high background usage, but it didn't...
 
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Phaaze88 said:
R6 Seige is eating up TEN GIGS of memory? REALLY?
At the time of this post, I have 23 tabs of Firefox + Steam open, and that's not even 2GBs.

Userbench should've flagged you for high background usage, but it didn't...
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Oh, it doesn't, the game takes around 6 GB or somewhere around that value while playing.

This album shows what i got from the Task Manager, while i was experiencing drops, although the readings on the bottom are inaccurate, as the task manager refreshed before i was able to pause the view (it was set on low refresh rate, i do have slow hands lol). I don't notice much difference with the Memory and CPU graphs while experiencing fps drops, and while there are no fps drops. Because for the CPU it just maxes out to 100%, while im not experiencing FPS drops, and the Memory stays mostly the same all through out.

I also included temperature readings from Nitrosense, i noticed that the CPU was consistently at 94-96 C while playing (maybe regardless of when experiencing FPS drops or not). And i'm not sure if the reading given then was during an FPS drop, as i couldn't slow down the refresh rate in Nitrosense, nor freeze it.

Note: Those huge drops on the graphs are when I'm alt tabbed. The small drops are for when i'm tabbed in the game while in between rounds (where we pick operators and bombsites, or while the game is loading).
 
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It appears to be behaving normally, but damn if 98C isn't toasty...
No graph showing the clock speed behavior?

Something else that came to mind - since the SSD became the new system drive, did you clone the OS over to it, or did you fresh install it? The cloning process doesn't always go smoothly...
 
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