PC passes benchmarks, but drops frames during gaming sessions.

[kalvinsatiacum]

Been having issues with my gaming PC if you could call it that. I have reinstalled windows, updated drivers, bios, windows*. My PC drop frames even with games playing on low setting.
The two game I currently play the most are Friday the 13th: The Game, and League of Legends. During league sessions I get about less than 30 fps during combat on low graphic settings. I have used programs like Core Temp,and HW Monitor, temps of GPU and CPU don't get higher than 70 degrees. The rig runs Intel Burn Test, and Furmark fine.

CURRENT BUILD
Enermax mid sized case
Windows 10
MSI 970 Gaming Mobo
AMD FX 6 Core 63000
San Disk Ultra II 480gb
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6gb
16gb 1600 Corsair Vengeance Pro
Thermalake TR2 700w PSU


Idk whats up with this PC, back in April when I bought the GPU the PC ran great and the last couple months its been doing down the drain. The PC itself runs fine, sluggish at times, but its the gaming experience that's the problem.

*To expand What I mean. I have most recently done in this order
reformatted my SSD
reinstalled Windows 10
let Windows 10 update
reset, and flash updated BIOS
ensured that my RAM was activated, and AHCI mode was on
remove Windows 10 metro programs with Destroy Windows 10 Spying program
stopped Windows 10 telemetry with O&O Shut up
downloaded most recent GPU,and MOBO drivers
figuring my rig was ready to I installed Steam, and Friday, the 13th, and League of Legends.
still have problems. . . .
So, I tried different drivers, and I used Display Driver Uninstaller.
and that didn't work.
So, I tried changing the setting around on under Nvidia Control Panel.
that didn't work.
I tried changing virtual memory setting,
and that didn't work.
I tried using ATI Winflash to check my Chip set drivers, and that program didn't work
I tried to check my GPU drivers, and got lost.
I tried IntelBurn Test, and it made it 10/10
I tried Furmark, and I let it run for 3:30 before stopping it. It ran fine, was with in temp thresh holds, and didn't show any visual signs of lag, screen tears, etc.
Using HW Monitor while gaming shows that the GPU doesn't use much of it memory, and stay within temp range.

A bit of history on my rig, I build from scratch I picked all the parts up irl at Fry's Electronics back in Sept/Oct 2014. The original build used a MSI 950 Gaming GPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 1 TB Western Digital mechanical HHD. leading up to April 2017 I was experiencing problems with dropped frame rates I tried updating drivers,and it didn't work. April is my birthday month so I splurged on my PC, and April 2017 (two and half years after the initial build) I replaced the GPU, case fans, CPU fan/ thermal paste. Everything was great, until June. Same problems came up. Now I look dumb in front of the Wife because we spent soo much on the GPU. In June, I was able to justify a new HHD, but we want to insure a quality purchase despite not having much. We reluctantly found the San Disk Ultra II 500 GB on sell. I worked well, but didn't solve the problem. The PC became super silent, and zippy. It is awesome that I can be playing a game, and it doesn't sound like I have a jet under my desk. So here I am with only two games, two testing programs, and two hardware monitors installed on my PC.

 

[serioussamik17]

What is the driver that you are using? Did you check with the latest ones? Better do a fresh install (use Driver cleanup tool to erase last traces of the past driver) and then install nvidia 385.69 (latest drivers) and see if it solves the issue.

Next is open task manager and see the CPU and RAM utilization. If you are seeing too high utilizations, check what are the programs or apps those are taking up CPU or RAM activity. Try to de-activate or disable the unnecessary ones running in the background.

Finally, carry a full fledged virus scan and check for Malware or Adwares those push CPU usage. Terminate/Delete the ones found by your Anti Virus. This should help.

 

[kalvinsatiacum]

What is the driver that you are using? Did you check with the latest ones? Better do a fresh install (use Driver cleanup tool to erase last traces of the past driver) and then install nvidia 385.69 (latest drivers) and see if it solves the issue.

Next is open task manager and see the CPU and RAM utilization. If you are seeing too high utilizations, check what are the programs or apps those are taking up CPU or RAM activity. Try to de-activate or disable the unnecessary ones running in the background.

Finally, carry a full fledged virus scan and check for Malware or Adwares those push CPU usage. Terminate/Delete the ones found by your Anti Virus. This should help.

 

[kalvinsatiacum]

I have reformatted my SSD, and reinstalled windows. Is it necessary to use a driver clean up tool with a fresh install of Windows 10? If there is some legit truth to running one after a fresh install, I would do it. I had the same problem before reformatting, and I did used a driver clean up tool. It yielded nil results. It since it didn't solve the issue, its kind of what led to the me reformatting my SSD, and reinstalled Window 10. I tried multiply different driver versions, and I always used Display Driver Uninstaller. Do you know if that a good one to use? So no driver version seem to matter both before and after reformatting, and reinstalling.
Before reformatting I thought it may be a virus, I ran Windows Defender, but that came back with nothing, and didn't improve the frame rates. . Reformatted anyways. After reformatting I reinstalled Windows 10. Not wanting Windows to crap'ola on my SSD I removed Windows Metro programs, and stopped the Windows telemetry,
Ya so the only thing installed on my machine are steam, F13 (Friday The 13th: The Game, LoL (League of Legends), Intel Burn Test, Furmark Benchmark, HW Monitor, O&O Shutup, DWS10 (Destroy Windows Spying 10), and DDU (display driver uninstaller), so nothing to that runs in the background.
Other popular suggestions for me have been to run disk cleanup, change power settings to High Performance, and I almost forgot the most common which has been to change my Visual Effects. Some people have suggested that physically cleaning rig would help, while it does improve performance. I do clean my rig every few months. This is byond
For what its worth I haven't installed the utility programs that runs my RGB keyboard, or the Logitech one for my mouse. So those are not even running in the background.
I was hoping to finds answers that I didn't already know/try, but I also realized we have to set a precedent for what has already taken place. Super frustrating trying to play games at sub 30 fps.

 

[serioussamik17]

DDU is fine. It does not slow down systems. And yes, formatting kind of eradicates whatever chances there are to slow up potential problems (virus /malware/missing DLL files) and with a fresh install, I cant imagine any remaining.
Physically cleaning the system at best can stop overheating or tighten up loose ends, I dont see that will anyway help in improving performance per se.

Try getting a new hard drive and check if the problem persists. Maybe the case the read-write speed is causing problems. Unlikely, but worth a check.
Also, for the sake of it, just check your BIOS Settings and do a BIOS update. BE ADVISED: for BIOS update seek professional help if you have to, as one wrtong move in this can damage your Motherboard. It happened to me once when some fuzzy BIOS caused my GTX 560Ti not to perform up to its mark. May well me the case with you.

 

[kalvinsatiacum]

DDU is fine. It does not slow down systems. And yes, formatting kind of eradicates whatever chances there are to slow up potential problems (virus /malware/missing DLL files) and with a fresh install, I cant imagine any remaining.
Physically cleaning the system at best can stop overheating or tighten up loose ends, I dont see that will anyway help in improving performance per se.

Try getting a new hard drive and check if the problem persists. Maybe the case the read-write speed is causing problems. Unlikely, but worth a check.
Also, for the sake of it, just check your BIOS Settings and do a BIOS update. BE ADVISED: for BIOS update seek professional help if you have to, as one wrtong move in this can damage your Motherboard. It happened to me once when some fuzzy BIOS caused my GTX 560Ti not to perform up to its mark. May well me the case with you.

Yes, I also said that in my original post. To help stop suggestions that I have already considered or taken action on I updated my post to be as detailed as possible. How can I test if my MOBO is damaged?