[SOLVED] VERY poor game performance + cannot overclock anymore.

[flaiR-IV]

Hello everyone.

Recently, my system is taking a massive dump on itself and before I go out and buy a bunch of new parts, I'd like to see if anyone here can possibly make sense of my situation and give me some advice.

My system:
Ryzen 5 2600
MSI B450M Bazooka V2
MSI GTX 1070 Armor
Corsair Vengeance LPX (4x8 @ 3200MHz supposedly)
Cougar CMX 1000W PSU

The biggest issue that I'm having is that my FPS has just been getting really bad in every game, and I mean REALLY bad. CS:GO is constantly dipping below 90 FPS and stutters at nearly every gun shot and Team Fortress 2 is only getting 50-70 FPS. Mind you that this is only within the past 3 weeks.

My system used to be slightly overclocked, but recently, any form of overclocking outside of my motherboards GameMode Overclock preset causes the computer to get stuck in a boot cycle with the CPU failure LED glowing before it shuts down. Even without trying to overclock the CPU, trying to overclock my RAM never works. The RAM has always been stuck at the default 2133 MHz or possibly even 1533 MHz because I can never get it to overclock without the PC becoming unusable (yes, I had the correct voltages for overclocking as well).

If people are going to say potential overheating issues, I've been monitoring my temps for a long time and my temps are actually amazing. I average 53-60C on the CPU during most games and 57-67C on the GPU.

My Windows is all up to date, I have installed no malicious programs, I keep my drivers up to date, and yet I still lag horribly. Also, turning down graphics in 90% of games has literally no effect on my actual frame rate (which leads me to believe that the GPU is completely fine). Even more frustrating is that someone on YouTube posted a video of them using a system very similar to mine and their CS:GO frame rate averaged 297 while I can barely get 105 consistently.

If anyone has any ideas of what I can do to fix this before I go out and spend $600+ to get new parts, that would make me really happy.

Thanks,
flaiR

 

[flaiR-IV]

The cpu-z picture shows one kit using Samsung chips and the other Hynix so not the same.

I mean I'm just frustrated at this point. You buy the exact same stuff only to never notice that somehow they sell different DRAM manufacturers... I knew mixing RAM was always a bad thing, but I never knew that just a different DRAM manufacturer makes that much of a difference.

 

[Vic 40]

With ram this just might be with such a difference. Why they sell kits as compatible, but won't guarantee that adding will work just fine.

 

[flaiR-IV]

Same frequency and timings, sure that increases the compatibility rate, but the kits still hadn't been properly tested - you did the beta testing over the 2 years you had them, just using the PC regularly, no memory-related tests like Memtest86...
In the meantime, those kits could've been throwing out unnoticeable, subtle errors over time, getting worse and worse...


Looking back at the first post:
1)You did mention doing 'slight' overclocks. Were they as aggressive as the ones below?

Pinnacle Ridge	All Core SSE Frequency	All Core AVX2 Frequency	BIOS Vcore	% Capable
2600X	Not Tested	4.10GHz	1.375V	100%
2600X	Not Tested	4.15GHz	1.400V	Top 81%
2600X	Not Tested	4.20GHz	1.425V	Top 56%
2600X	Not Tested	4.25GHz	1.450V	Top 25%

I know you have the 2600 non-X, but Silicon Lottery doesn't have binning results for that model, and the 2600X is just a slightly better bin.

2)There's no mention of the storage drive(s). Are they in good condition?
If you don't have a monitoring tool already, then use Crystal Disk Info. Link: https://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller

3)I can't rule out the possibility that the OS or some of its files are corrupt. You went 2 years with mixed kits and didn't test for ram errors/stability.

Well, now I'm very confused. After clearing the CMOS in my PC multiple times, reformatting Windows, and finally doing an overnight Memtest86, I got back on my PC this morning only to find that I have 0 errors... Like another user pointed out, I guess I'm starting to question if the VRM on my motherboard is overheating/dying and giving it a look, I just booted up my PC and have barely done anything and my CPU VCORE is locked at 1.304V... Not 100% sure if that is normal/safe for my CPU or not...

 

[flaiR-IV]

Well, now my motherboard is unable to do anything anymore. Even the built-in GameMode Overclock no longer works because as soon as I enable it, the PC refuses to boot...

 

[Vic 40]

Hard to say, might be the motherboard, might be that power delivery with that mediocre psu is a problem. You did remove Ryzen Master and tried the latets version? Can try Revo Uninstaller to make sure all of the tool is gone by using the most strenuous setting when looking at what remains.

Did you test with the two sets of ram apart?

 

[flaiR-IV]

Hard to say, might be the motherboard, might be that power delivery with that mediocre psu is a problem. You did remove Ryzen Master and tried the latets version? Can try Revo Uninstaller to make sure all of the tool is gone by using the most strenuous setting when looking at what remains.

Did you test with the two sets of ram apart?

Sorry for the late response. After some more digging around, I am nearly 100% certain that the motherboard was the issue all along. Nearly every setting in the BIOS is now unusable without the computer refusing to boot. I just went ahead and bought a new motherboard with a VRM heatsink and plan on doing my OC carefully so as not to overheat/overclock it. Hopefully the mixing of DRAM manufacturers will be ok since they've been fine together this whole time and had no errors in Memtest86 (I ran another test and still came back with 0 errors). Thanks for the help!