So, first things first, thank you to anyone that takes the time to read this desperate cry for help.
These are my specs: i5 -7600k | GTX 1080 Ti 11gb | 16Gb RAM | SSD 250gb | Cooler: Kraken X62 | 750W gold PSU
My rig is two years old, I am very fond of my electronics and know my way around PCs fairly well, I am no pro, though, therefore I come to you to see if you can help me.
I have been playing a lot of games in the last two years in 2.5k resolution ultra at a fairly accceptable framerate 100 - 144 fps.
Thing is, a few days ago I noticed my CPU reving up randomly having huge clock speed spikes (from 800-4200) and my processor speed being fixed on 4,17 (i5 base speed is 3,79) overperforming for no reason, so I reset my energy plans and now i have two options: high performance on a constant 4200Mhz or balanced where it goes to 800Mhz base speed and spikes randomly up to 4200Mhz an down again, 30 times per minute. This is new to me, but maybe an update messes something up?
When I opened games like Fortnite I used to have around 65-75% CPU usage in total and now I get 100% being Fortnite alone around 85-90%.
So if I cap the framerate to 60, CPU load goes down to 50%. And if I put all of the settings on low in 2.5K it struggles to maintain 200fps. The weirdest part is it should be perfectly possible for me to play in 1920x1080 with 240fps, but my PC struggles to get over 180 even in low resolution...
The same in CSGO a very CPU heavy game, where I normally used to get 280fps, I now get 100 - 150fps, so there is clearly something going on.
So I did the usual, update drivers, closed programs to see if any of them was messing with the cpu, updated the BIOS and I even reset Windows...
NOTHING has helped, and I am so lost. Task manager says that fortnite or any game in question is the sole user of all that processing power. And there is nothing I can do to change it.
Process monitor from windows does not show anything abnormal, there is though always about 15 - 20% of CPU usage that remains somehow hidden or invisible (without that i would be sitting at 70% cpu usage playing on 2k in ultra, which is just fine.
Oh, CPU temp is a steady 49C (even with prolongued 100% use) and GPU around 75C, all this measures with CPU-Z and Hardware monitor.
My ram is working at the intended 2400 (confirmed by bios) and XMP is on. Overclocking will not help, as this has happened just a few days ago.
I noticed that putting things in fullscreen made the processor go up, and in window mode just go completely down.
I did a userbenchmark where you can see that appareantly nothing is wrong: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23180385
Last option is to do a completely clean wipe of the ssd and star anew...This is just stupid.
Thank you again, and have a nice Monday!
Edit: forgot to say that my voltage is just fine sitting on 0.8 on idle and around 1.150 - 1.235 with use.
These are my specs: i5 -7600k | GTX 1080 Ti 11gb | 16Gb RAM | SSD 250gb | Cooler: Kraken X62 | 750W gold PSU
My rig is two years old, I am very fond of my electronics and know my way around PCs fairly well, I am no pro, though, therefore I come to you to see if you can help me.
I have been playing a lot of games in the last two years in 2.5k resolution ultra at a fairly accceptable framerate 100 - 144 fps.
Thing is, a few days ago I noticed my CPU reving up randomly having huge clock speed spikes (from 800-4200) and my processor speed being fixed on 4,17 (i5 base speed is 3,79) overperforming for no reason, so I reset my energy plans and now i have two options: high performance on a constant 4200Mhz or balanced where it goes to 800Mhz base speed and spikes randomly up to 4200Mhz an down again, 30 times per minute. This is new to me, but maybe an update messes something up?
When I opened games like Fortnite I used to have around 65-75% CPU usage in total and now I get 100% being Fortnite alone around 85-90%.
So if I cap the framerate to 60, CPU load goes down to 50%. And if I put all of the settings on low in 2.5K it struggles to maintain 200fps. The weirdest part is it should be perfectly possible for me to play in 1920x1080 with 240fps, but my PC struggles to get over 180 even in low resolution...
The same in CSGO a very CPU heavy game, where I normally used to get 280fps, I now get 100 - 150fps, so there is clearly something going on.
So I did the usual, update drivers, closed programs to see if any of them was messing with the cpu, updated the BIOS and I even reset Windows...
NOTHING has helped, and I am so lost. Task manager says that fortnite or any game in question is the sole user of all that processing power. And there is nothing I can do to change it.
Process monitor from windows does not show anything abnormal, there is though always about 15 - 20% of CPU usage that remains somehow hidden or invisible (without that i would be sitting at 70% cpu usage playing on 2k in ultra, which is just fine.
Oh, CPU temp is a steady 49C (even with prolongued 100% use) and GPU around 75C, all this measures with CPU-Z and Hardware monitor.
My ram is working at the intended 2400 (confirmed by bios) and XMP is on. Overclocking will not help, as this has happened just a few days ago.
I noticed that putting things in fullscreen made the processor go up, and in window mode just go completely down.
I did a userbenchmark where you can see that appareantly nothing is wrong: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23180385
Last option is to do a completely clean wipe of the ssd and star anew...This is just stupid.
Thank you again, and have a nice Monday!
Edit: forgot to say that my voltage is just fine sitting on 0.8 on idle and around 1.150 - 1.235 with use.