Very bad performance on CS:GO and many other titles with good specs.

[Stabber7777]

Hello, I have had this CPU for around 2 years, but it has never performed to what it was expected to run. For instance, a friend of mine also has the same CPU, but gets higher framerate in CSGO by a large margin and his specs are somewhat lower than mine. I usually get 150+ depending on the map but sometimes it can drop to 40. I've also looked into streamers and such with it and they seem to get 200+ all of the time w/out overclocking it. Is it just a bad cpu I had gotten, or is it something to do with my computer?


Specs:
CPU - AMD FX-8350 4.0ghz
Graphics Card - Zotac GTX 970
Ram - 16gb dual channel
PSU - 650W Modular power supply
Cooling - Air cooled, but always cool

 

[bmacsys]

Hello, I have had this CPU for around 2 years, but it has never performed to what it was expected to run. For instance, a friend of mine also has the same CPU, but gets higher framerate in CSGO by a large margin and his specs are somewhat lower than mine. I usually get 150+ depending on the map but sometimes it can drop to 40. I've also looked into streamers and such with it and they seem to get 200+ all of the time w/out overclocking it. Is it just a bad cpu I had gotten, or is it something to do with my computer?


Specs:
CPU - AMD FX-8350 4.0ghz
Graphics Card - Zotac GTX 970
Ram - 16gb dual channel
PSU - 650W Modular power supply
Cooling - Air cooled, but always cool

More than likely the poor phase power on whatever motherboard you have is causing thermal throttling. The motherboard mosfets themselves get overly hot trying to supply an even source of electrical power to the cpu and various subsystems. When they overheat due to a heavy load they throttle the cpu so they basically don't explode or burst into flames.

 

[SomethingElse_]

Hello, I have had this CPU for around 2 years, but it has never performed to what it was expected to run. For instance, a friend of mine also has the same CPU, but gets higher framerate in CSGO by a large margin and his specs are somewhat lower than mine. I usually get 150+ depending on the map but sometimes it can drop to 40. I've also looked into streamers and such with it and they seem to get 200+ all of the time w/out overclocking it. Is it just a bad cpu I had gotten, or is it something to do with my computer?


Specs:
CPU - AMD FX-8350 4.0ghz
Graphics Card - Zotac GTX 970
Ram - 16gb dual channel
PSU - 650W Modular power supply
Cooling - Air cooled, but always cool

More than likely the poor phase power on whatever motherboard you have is causing thermal throttling. The motherboard mosfets themselves get overly hot trying to supply an even source of electrical power to the cpu and various subsystems. When they overheat due to a heavy load they throttle the cpu so they basically don't explode or burst into flames.

Is there anyway to help this or even stop it?

 

[PassMark]

Check the motherboard and CPU temps.

There really isn't any such thing as a bad CPU (in the sense that you get less performance in one example compared to another at the same clock speed).

If you got 10 CPUs of the same model and run them at the same clock speed, with the same RAM on the same motherboard, then they will perform the same (or at least so close that it doesn't make any difference).

There is a bad CPU in the sense that some might not overclock very well, or some might fail & crash, or some might not like high temperatures. But at normal temps they either work or they don't. You don't get a case where is works to 80% of capacity.

But there are other reasons for poor performance. e.g. 3rd party crud software running in the background, slower RAM, old video card drivers, game quality settings in the game, settings in the device driver, monitor limiting frame rates, having the video card in the wrong PCI-E slot, etc........

 

[chris987]

i agree with @bmacsys . what mobo do you have @Stabber7777?