Same FPS on CSGO on highest and lowest settings

[colinisnotmyname]

So when I am on both the highest and lowest settings, I get around 60-110 fps, the lowest dipping more below 60fps, making higher settings much smoother. I should be getting around 200 fps with my machine, and I have no clue why this is happening. I have tried reinstalling windows, unparking my cores, and other things to fix this issue. I have had issues with stuttering on other games, but not really as bad as this. Ask me if you need more info to solve the issue.

My Specs:
i3 4130t
16 gb ddr3
gtx 1050 lp
Some random 300w psu

 

[RememberThe5th]

Which 300W psu?
High perfomance in power options?
And where you did heard that you should get 200fps ?
Also CSGO is cpu bound not gpu.

 

[colinisnotmyname]

Yeah, I know CS is cpu bound, but an i3 should work just fine. Here is a video showing a stable 110+ fps on highest with similar specs. I know it is a 4130 in the video, not a 4130t, and the ram isn't the same, but it is close enough to show the performance I should be getting. I'll look for some benchmarks with lowest settings, but I assume it should be much higher. The PSU is a Power-Man IP-S300FFT-0 H (Yeah, no clue what brand that is, but should be doing fine as long as my pc is running. Plus, my pc doesn't use that many watts.) And yes, I do have high performance power options. I also forgot to mention that my pc has a 128 gb ssd for Windows and a 500 gb hard drive for games and other applications. Thanks for the early response!

 

[colinisnotmyname]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cl_tMlwuCw Even with a Xeon and a 750 ti at 1024x768p, he is getting normally over 200fps when with the same exact settings, I still get 60-110ish fps, sometimes stuttering and dropping below 60. That should tell you something is wrong.

 

[RememberThe5th]

No, i3-4130 is faster than i3-4130T
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-4130T-vs-Intel-Core-i3-4130/m13080vs1621
Ram doesnt affect intel perfomance at all, unless games like ROTTR.
That PSU seems okay/fine, there is an review on Hardwaresecrets but it seems pretty outdated since its ATX 2.1 (2.4 today), but that should cause issues at all since your PC is low powered.

If the stuttering is quite badly, you can limit FPS via Rivatuner.
Just download MSI afterburner, install it with riva tuner, start MSI, after MSI launched, in notification area where you see hidden icons, there should be new icon, after you start it, in boxes with arrows pointing up and down should be saying "00", that should limit your FPS.

Have you tried transfering CSGO to the SSD and test out if it still does stutter?

 

[colinisnotmyname]

Yeah, the i3 4130t is 200hz less powerful than the i3 4130, but that shoulkdn't make that much of a difference. I haven't tried transferring it to the ssd, but I can try it. I'll tell you the results after I do it. Thanks!

 

[spdragoo]

There's only 1 of 2 possibilities for this:

1. Your PSU is way underpowered, & keeping your system from its full potential. However, the i3-4130T is a low-power CPU (35W TDP), & the GTX 1050 is far from being power-hungry either. So, especially if your GTX 1050 doesn't need PCIe power connectors, chances are it's not the PSU.

2. Your CPU is holding you back. Core i3 CPUs don't do Turbo, so whatever their rating is, that's their speed. CS:GO might not need a whole lot of CPU, but a) when they talk about "minimum" & recommended" specs, they only mean on the recommended high-enough specs to get 60+ FPS on the highest quality settings at the expected resolution, & b) the i3-4130T is 15% slower than the i3-4130, so you're not going to get the same performance from it. The major hallmark of CPU throttling for game performance, though, is when you change the resolution and/or quality settings but your FPS is unchanged...which is what you're getting.

If your GPU was at fault, you'd see a change in FPS when changing quality settings, because quality setting-based performance is based solely on what the GPU can handle (CPU has no effect on it). You've got plenty of RAM, your GPU is more than powerful enough for it...which means that your CPU is most likely behind the spikes/flat performance.

 

[colinisnotmyname]

Okay, so I tried moving the game to the ssd, and it is still at around the 60fps range, leaving me to think that it is the cpu. If I want to buy a new one, it has to be LGA 1150 since my motherboard is an Asrock H97 Pro4. Should I get a new motherboard with a newer LGA 1151 socket, or stick with this one and upgrade? If so, do you guys have any suggestions?

 

[colinisnotmyname]

Okay so here is what I am thinking. I will sell my current machine for around $250 dollars if I am lucky without my graphics card and buy or build a new machine without a gpu. I will probably do this because all of the parts in my current pc are outdated and hard to upgrade without redoing almost everything. Plus, my current machine is only ITX, so that leaves just about no room for upgrades. This pc seems like a really good deal at the moment. https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Desktop-i5-7400-Windows-TC-780-ACKI5/dp/B073YHNPC6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1528312608&sr=8-3&keywords=acer+computer

 

[spdragoo]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97%20Pro4/#CPU

Keep your current motherboard, & get an i7-4970 (not the "K" version). It should smooth out the CS:GO performance (faster clocks, moves you from 2C/4T to 4C/8T), & you don't even have to update the BIOS. For an ITX build, that'll give you a decent machine.