i7-3820 @ 3.60GHZ / GTX 1080G1

[heart2197]

So lately I've been having some weird frame rate issues that I had to resolve by taking a weird approach. Hyper-threading is one of the problems I had to fix on my list because it would affect my FPS while playing games, and I mean it would dramatically drop my FPS down to 10-20. So I turned it off but I still feel like there is something wrong, especially when it comes to playing different games. I complain about the FPS because I've seen similar rigs and builds and they seem to be able to run the game in ultra or highest settings and maintain a frame-rate above 100 consistently. Please help!

Ex: Overwatch Lowest settings @ 1080p I get around 70-100 FPS

Battlefield 1 Lowest settings @ 1080p I get around 60-80 FPS

I'm not necessarily sure on what to do and I've also compared my performance page on task manager to other reports of the i7-3820 and it seems to register "Logical processors: 4" instead of
8?


System:

i7-3820
GTX-1080G1
16GB of RAM
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB

 

[heart2197]

https://puu.sh/AnPUh/753f7be90e.png

Picture of Task Manager while browsing.

 

[boju]

With HT off your cpu will read as 4 physical cores, 8 logical with HT on.

Newer titles are becoming more multi threaded friendly but some games do not agree with HT so it's bit of a nuisance toggling it in bios between games i know but it what needs to be done. Hyperthreading does have it's draw backs but in games that can utilise it like Farcry5, Ghost Recon, Devision, GTA 5, it can make a huge difference and reduce too much CPU usage meaning more instructions sent quicker to the GPU instead of CPU being overwhelmed by other stuff.

What os do you play on? If Win10 do look up gamebar / xbox dvr and fullscreen optimisation and how they can affect performance.

 

[heart2197]

With HT off your cpu will read as 4 physical cores, 8 logical with HT on.

Newer titles are becoming more multi threaded friendly but some games do not agree with HT so it's bit of a nuisance toggling it in bios between games i know but it what needs to be done. Hyperthreading does have it's draw backs but in games that can utilise it like Farcry5, Ghost Recon, Devision, GTA 5, it can make a huge difference and reduce too much CPU usage meaning more instructions sent quicker to the GPU instead of CPU being overwhelmed by other stuff.

What os do you play on? If Win10 do look up gamebar / xbox dvr and fullscreen optimisation and how they can affect performance.

Like I said, whenever I use it, it impacts my performance completely. When it's turned on, I get 10-20 FPS, when it's off I get considerably higher FPS such as the games that I used as an example.

 

[boju]

Does cpu increase speed when put under more load? Noticed your cpu in the screen shot is down to 1.5. Might be normal at 6% usage, check though.

Check cpu temps under load. Check Windows power plans aren't limiting.