Kind Of A Complicated Question

[cody11d12]

Hi guys! I hope you are all having a good day. I have a very frustrating issue with the performance of my PC.
CPU: AMD FX-8320
GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 8GB
( I am aware that this is a slightly bottle-necked build , I upgraded my GPU recently and my CPU is next! )
My brother recently bought a PC that has the FX-8320 , and the GTX 1050 ti. We are playing the same games, and I'm noticing that his PC is MUCH more consistent when it comes to frames per second. I am constantly getting frame drop on the exact same games, and with the exact same settings. Almost to the point where it is unplayable. My question is, why could this be happening? My PC is much older but do parts really deteriorate in performance that dramatically? My CPU, and HDD are both old. ( 4 years or so ) What can I do to see what is causing me frame drop?
Things I've done so far:
-Run a full CCleaner and registry repair on it through CCleaner.
-Virus Scans
What's next? I've done a test on my HDD and it is telling me caution... but I didn't think the HDD really had much to do with frames per second. I know it can effect it, but really this much?

 

[LowlySkeleton]

Are either of the computers overclocked? If your brother's pc was overclocked and yours wasn't, that would easily explain performance differences. The amount of ram could also be another reason (ie if you were running only 4GB and he had 8GB; though this is only true if you had really little ram).

It could also be that your brother's pc is still a relatively fresh install, with less chance that there would be other programs and settings that might be effecting performance when gaming. Maybe check to see if you antivirus is set to know that it shouldn't scan when you are in-game; antivirus software tends to use up a lot of cpu resources when they scan. Might also help to check out what you have running in task manager.

 

[smorizio]

make sure your mb bios is up to date and make sure you have the newest amd chipset drivers for the mb from amd web site.