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Eliot111

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Hi all,

I am getting frame drops with a GTX1070 (8GB card, ASUS DUAL), and I am wondering if this is a problem with the graphics card or my processor. On games like Arma 3, the fps can dip very low, almost like it did on my old graphics card (GTX960 2GB) and I am wondering whether this is to do with my GTX1070 underperforming in certain areas (also getting fps dips on Hitman 2016) or whether my processor (Core i7-3770S) is what's causing these frame drops, either way I'm not having the experience I should be having with a 1070. Just to add, my i7-3770S is capped at 99% usage to stop turbo boost as I only have stock cooling, which I believe stops it clocking to 3.9GHz at load, but I'm hoping someone can help with this issue as soon as possible.


Full Specs:

Intel Core i7-3770s @ 3.10GHz (3.9GHz turbo boost)
ASUS GeForce GTX1070 (8GB DUAL OC)
8GB HyperX Fury RAM (2x 4GB)
Windows 10 64-bit
Stock cooling and stock fans
 
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Hi,

I am not over locking anything at the moment, I did recently move my ram from a lower clock speed to 1600MHz (collectively not each) because that's what it should be at, but this didn't really
change anything in games stil
l same problems, my power supply is a G7 power extreme
(bought it from PC World like 4
years ago, pretty sure it's not a reputable brand or anything). In terms of cooling I have 2 pretty standard fans in there that don't do much and stock processor fan, but in games my temps don't seem to reach any levels out of the ordinary. I will attach a photo of the inside of my rig so you can get a clear look at my power supply.

Many thanks!
 
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http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/g7-680-w-atx-pc-power-supply-n33hc it is something like this one but might be an older version, but as you can see not a very great one. My PC hasn't showed any alarms of having low power, but then again I don't know if this power supply could cause fps issues in games.
 
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3.9GHz will only be at single core apps (turbo boost technology is depending on how high temp. is and if more than one core is used)

update the BIOS of the motherboard, to improve the gtx1070 compatibility
don´t flash in windows!
Which motherboard is it?

photos:
use a free image hoster and post the link
 
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I have tried looking for a BIOS update for this motherboard but can't seem to find anything. My motherboard is an ASRock H61M-VG4. I ran hitman earlier with RivaTuner open and I did notice that GPU usage was all over the place (not very high) but in a certain area where frame dips below 60 to around high 40s, CPU usage went to 100%. Not sure if I need cooling to enable the 100% usage and increase processor-related setting to fix this or whether it's a seperate issue.
 
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Just a quick question, will updating my BIOS cause any changes on windows or anything like that? I have lots of games and software installed that will take a long time to get back if this is the case 😛 Also, I can't really set my PC to performance mode because after a while in games, the frame rate starts dropping (possibly due to thermal issues) and the fan is very noisy

 
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Do I need a USB drive like the website states or can it be done without?
 
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should be possible with an exenal HDD as well
if you don´t have an usb flash drive, you can try your phone as an external drive
or a SD card with card reader or you just buy a very cheap usb flash drive

the option to flash the BIOS in windows (without USB drive) can be more dangerous and I wouldn´t do it in windows.

If you didn´t alter any settings in BIOS yourself, all will be the same for windows, like nothing has happaned.
Eventually you will have to update the Intel ME driver.
 
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Would it be helpful to post a picture of the inside of my case even though I'm pretty sure it may not be a hardware plugging issue?

On another thread I made a while back which has just recently picked up responses even though I thought it was dead, I ran TimeSpy and these are the results: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17756556?

Not too confident about the CPU results, but this benchmark may be helpful to you guys in finding out what a possible cause might be. I'm willing to spend some money on cooling or new PSU or something like that, but as a student I have to save monies :/
 
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Not yet, I don't have a USB lying around, but I do plan on getting an external hard drive soon as I'm running low on disk space, so I will quickly do this when I get it. I'm not sure if it will be today (or tomorrow as early hours of morning lol) but will get onto it soon and see if it does anything.
 
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I have stored it just inside the Temp folder on C: drive, will I be able to easily find it when I go to install the BIOS update? I don't wanna mess anything up as I use this PC for uni work
 
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