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My PC plays games at around 60+ FPS but then drops to 20 FPS.

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February 17, 2014 5:06:19 PM

GTX 770, AMD FX 8320, 8GB g skill ram. Nothing over clocked, shouldnt be any bottlenecking. So, a little bit of story, the first game I downloaded on my new PC was BF4. It was amazing, getting 70+ on ultra! Turned off PC, went to bed. Woke up the next day, playing again at 70+ FPS but about 5 minutes later, it dropped to 20 FPS for around 6 seconds, then back to 70. It keeps happening every 5 minutes, but every time it happens more and more often and the frame rate gets worse and worse. It does this with BF3, Next Car Game, Far Cry 3, Shadow Warrior, Red Faction. Strangely, it doesn't do it for Rust, or Any of the armas, it does for 3. I've parked cores, un-installed drivers and re-installed drivers, got new heatsink, and nothing has worked. CPU speed does go down when these drops occur

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February 17, 2014 5:15:22 PM

Sounds like psu. What do you have?
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February 17, 2014 5:16:23 PM

You might try enabling HPC Mode in your BIOS. This prevents most CPU throttling while the CPU is under load.
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February 17, 2014 5:23:25 PM

Mike Friesen said:
Sounds like psu. What do you have?


Had an EVGA 600w. Went to frys 2 days ago and got a Corsair 650 modular one.
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February 17, 2014 5:24:07 PM

JamesSneed said:
You might try enabling HPC Mode in your BIOS. This prevents most CPU throttling while the CPU is under load.


Is that as simple as it sounds? I guess i'll try it, thanks
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February 17, 2014 11:16:50 PM

There is a good chance the CPU is overheating as well. Usually when it's a PSU problem, the PC shuts down, though not always. Heat, on the other hand, will cause the CPU to throttle. Try some monitoring software to see if it is overheating.
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February 18, 2014 11:43:49 AM

bystander said:
There is a good chance the CPU is overheating as well. Usually when it's a PSU problem, the PC shuts down, though not always. Heat, on the other hand, will cause the CPU to throttle. Try some monitoring software to see if it is overheating.


I don't think its over heating, it stays in the 40's, sometimes 50's
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