Having Lag Issues

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 18, 2014

Motherboard: GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 (rev.3.0)

Processor: AMD FX(tm)-9370 Eight-Core Processor 4.4GHz

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series 4GB

Operating System: Windows 7x64

RAM: 16GB

From the reviews I can see that the components of my computer are fairly good, but when I play games such as 'Battlefield 4' I experience some lag issues, I would have thought that because I had good components that my computer would be able to handle a lot more then it seems to handle at the moment.

LucoTF · Aug 18, 2014

Do you have a good CPU cooler? the fx-9xxx cpus get really hot

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 18, 2014

I have this one:

Corsair Hydro H60 2013 Watercooling Performance Closed-Loop CPU Cooler

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 18, 2014

LucoTF · Aug 18, 2014

A 9370 and r9 280x should be able to handle anything really, what sort of lag issues are you experiencing?

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 18, 2014

with most games set to high, it will be running smoothly and just drop, the frame rate just keeps going up and down

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 18, 2014

always very choppy gameplay

LucoTF · Aug 18, 2014

download amd overdrive, enable turbo core and apply, then disable it again and apply. This should disable active power management on your mobo.

If this doesn't fix the lag go into bios and disable c1, c6, cool n quiet, and turbo

chucknificent · Aug 18, 2014

LucoTF :

Couldn't have said it better myself.

LucoTF · Aug 19, 2014

Basically I'm guessing that your lag is caused by CPU throttling. This is either due to excess temperatures, voltages, or by features on your motherboard that are potentially causing undesirable effects.

Assuming that the h60 is keeping your FX below it's thermal limit (you can confirm this using AMD overdrive which reports your CPUs thermal margin) then something else is causing the CPU to throttle. All of the features I mentioned (including APM) are power saving features that may or may not be causing problems. If you find that the throttling (lag) goes away after making the changes then the next step is to re-enable the features one by one because ideally you want power saving features left on if they aren't causing problems.

Active power management can also be disabled in BIOS, it doesn't have to be done via overdrive.

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 19, 2014

so i should turn them off and leave them off?

LucoTF · Aug 19, 2014

Adrian Ohagan :

Well ideally you only want to turn off the trouble maker long term, but it won't damage your pc or anything to leave them all off (it will just use a bit more power, that's all)

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 19, 2014

The Thermal Margin is 48-50.5 °C on CPU Core 0-7 and the Thermal Margin is 45-46 °C on TMPIN1

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 19, 2014

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 19, 2014

Sorry I'm a noob at this type of thing, I couldn't find all the things you where speaking about, are any of these settings causing the problem?

LucoTF · Aug 19, 2014

First of all did you enable turbo core and apply, then disable turbo core and apply, using amd overdrive? See this picture:

http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/turbo-core-fix.png

Please try this first.

If the turbo core fix doesn't work, all the settings you need are under advanced CPU core features:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e43/aohagan/IMG_2446_zps09ac688b.jpg

Disable cool n quiet, C1e support, core C6 state
enable HPC mode
Save and exit

Adrian Ohagan · Aug 19, 2014

I think the Overdrive thing worked, I can run any game on ULTRA now and I don't get any lag problems, thank you. This problem was annoying me so much! You are brilliant.

LucoTF · Aug 19, 2014

Adrian Ohagan :

No problem I'm really glad it's sorted, you have good hardware so you deserve to get the best out of it!

Any more trouble feel free to post here again or start a new thread

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