Low FPS with i5-6500 3.20 GHz and Nvidia 1070 GTX 8 GB

[lolington]

CPU: i5-6500 3.20 GHz
GPU: Nvidia 1070 GTX 8 GB
RAM: 16 GB DDR4
SSD: KINGSTON SSDNow UV400 240GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB
Mobo: B150 Pro Gaming
Power Supply: Fortron Hyper S 500 - 500 W

Store page: https://www.alza.sk/EN/alza-gamebox-neo-gtx1070-d4304764.htm

Hi there! Im so glad that I found this website, my problem is in low FPS in strategy games, city building games and so on. Like Cities: Skylines, Hearts of Iron IV, The Guild 3, Transport Fewer, so on. GPU looks fine, Im worried that my CPU is killing the FPS, can you please help me to find some solution? Of course I using newest graphic drivers and performance is set to high. Thanks.

 

[lolington]

So, what to do? Buy new CPU?

 

[nobspls]

I would reinstall windows, go a clean install with the bare minimum of drivers. You want to rule out problems due to a bad windows install.

If you run the same screwed up install even with a new CPU, you would most likely get the same bad results.

 

[nobspls]

BTW you never did answer the question about the power settings. If for some unknown reason got the system stuck in some power saving mode, it could be deliberately slowing down your machine.

 

[lolington]

Not a fan of reinstall, I dont have Windows dvd, W10 was preinstalled in the PC.

And for the third time: High performance.

 

[COLGeek]

You can download Win 10 directly from MS. You'll just use the product key you are using now.

 

[lolington]

Nope, its not windows install faulty.

 

[nobspls]

Nope, its not windows install faulty.

Can you provide support data to show that? Because you would not be here asking for help if everything is working good right?

BTW can you run a bench of your system here, and provide us the link to the results?
https://www.userbenchmark.com/

And for comparison you can see my GTX1070 with my old 2600K here:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/1635135

I hoping something will jump out when we see some data.

 

[lolington]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11680171

 

[cookiemania66]

Could you please game for like 10 minutes while havin MSIAfterburner in the background?
I am curious if your GPU is even boosting to its usual operating speed.

Iave heared that every now and then the gpu runs in "safe mode" with only 300 to 450mhz instead of 1600mhz+

Could be the problem here. MSIAFterburner Screenshot would be nice after 10-15 minutes of gaming.

 

[lolington]

https://image.ibb.co/fcSBoA/MSI.jpg

 

[nobspls]

It really looks like things should run quite well on your machine. What is the make and model of your Monitor? What is the resolution your are running? Do you have v-sync set somewhere?

 

[lolington]

Asus vp239 vp239h is on the back of the monitor.
1920x1080 and I trying to set V-sync always in every game to 60.

 

[lolington]

So no ideas?

 

[nobspls]

I would try not using v-sync and then check your fps.

 

[lolington]

Doesnt helped, fps are still low, not even mentioning fps jumps in some games and display cut in half.

 

[COLGeek]

Seems we are where we started. The relatively slow memory and multi-core performance are not significant (from the benchmark report above). This behaves much like a heat/power issue over time. This is also the relative performance of the CPU versus the potential of the GPU.

It is time to consider upgrade hardware options, or living with the level of performance (overall) being delivered....which isn't bad as measured above.

 

[nobspls]

I think it is pretty clear that there was no attempt to do a clean windows install. Nonetheless, I believe the best working hypothesis is that there must be some software that is messed up with that preinstalled image.

 

[COLGeek]

I think it is pretty clear that there was no attempt to do a clean windows install. Nonetheless, I believe the best working hypothesis is that there must be some software that is messed up with that preinstalled image.

This should certainly be done.

 

[lolington]

My SSD health is 51%, maybe kinda a little problem?

 

[J_E_D_70]

Health... capacity or life remaining? This is what, 3 years old? If that’s life remaining theres a problem with something doing an insane number of drive writes.

Edit: also not sure about the quality of that psu. It can affect gpu performance.

Agree with everyone else - would reinstall Win from scratch. Preloaded os with bloatware is a bad thing.

 

[lolington]

Life remaining, I kinda used it for downloading, stored there music and stuff, so its my fault. Its about 3 years old and about the Windows install... Well, I will be forced to do it, when my SSD dies. I will wait till the end and then I will buy new SSD and install there new W10. I tried to migrate my OS from SSD to HDD, but sadly I dont found a way without erasing HDD content :/

 

[lolington]

Anyway, do someone know how to find information about my power supply? I considering few upgrades, but I need to know if my power supply can handle it. I know that its Fortron Hyper S 500 - 500 W, but I would preffer something that says current W usage.