Low FPS in Gaming for months now (and sometimes overall sluggishness)

[ourbg]

Hey guys!

I have a (old now) setup that used to do very well in gaming (nothing fancy).

CPU: AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz
MB: ASRock 970 Pro3
RAM: 8GB (Kingston HyperX)
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280X (Sapphire)

I know it's nowhere near "wow!" But I play games like League of Legends and Overwatch. Overwatch is kind of heavy, but I used to be able to run it at medium to high at 60FPS.

League of Legends has always worked fine on the highest possible settings with way more than 60 FPS.

Lately both games can't work even at their lowest settings. Overwatch can't reach steady 50FPS even at everything on ultra low. League reaches 60, but very unstable. Interesting thing is if I lower the settings even to the lowest performance is exactly the same.

In tense moments it's 40ish FPS at lowest settings.

Somehow this leads me to believe that the problem is not in my GPU.

What I've tried so far:
- All the temperatures are fine, monitored both CPU and GPU, nothing weird is going on.
- Clean Windows install.
- Always have the latest Graphics Drivers
- Reinstalling the games (not only these two) repairing and what not them.

Since I don't game that much any more I haven't gotten around to fix this, but it's an issue for more than 10 months maybe.

PS: Sometimes the whole system is kind of sluggish. Is it my CPU? Could it failing or is it just getting too old? I am not sure what other information I should provide so I'm at the ready to give someone what they need.

Thank you a bunch. Cheers!

 

[mdd1963]

Perhaps you can terminate all non-essential things running in background (including AV, just for temp testing), or better yet, possibly even borrow two more RAM sticks to get to 16 GB, just to see if that helps? Windows 10 alone seems to use about 5-5.5 GB alone at least on my rig, not leaving a huge amount left for applications with only 8 GB available...

Although CPU temps may seem OK, game a few minutes with HWMonitor running in background to make sure perhaps no throttling might be occurring possibly indicating overheating motherboard VRM circuitry, or, open case and run a $3 case fan across MB's power circuitry, and retest....