i7-4770k Poor Performance

Stoopkid12

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MOTHERBOARD: Asus z87 pro V edition
CPU: i7-4770k ( not overclocked)
CPU COOLER: 212 Evo
RAM: G skill Trident X 2400 mhz
GPU: EVGA gtx 770 superclocked 4GB
Wireless Adapter: TP link N900 dual band
PSU: Cooler Master 800W gold certified


I'll cut to the chase, I've experienced very low frame rates in games. Basically I play Diablo 3 and in fights i get like 30 fps, even dropped to 25 fps and I get framerate drops. Will go from high fps and then just stutter and drop to like 10 then back up again. WoW seems to have poor fps in major cities things like that. Basically when these things happen i notice that CPU usage and GPU usage are low(GPU not going above 55% and CPU not going above 30%). I was gauging this with MSI Afterburner and the temperatures were fine, cpu didn't go above like 55C and gpu didn't go above 60C. Though for some reason in MSI afterburner it would say CPU thread 5 would get to like 55% usage and CPU thread 8 would get to like 90% while the other 6 threads wouldn't go beyond 20, even some were at like 10%. In diablo 3 theres an option to display damaging numbers, I turned that off which did help but still ultimately in large mobs by myself it dropped to 30 fps.

This leads me to the conclusion that something somewhere is causing my CPU not to run very well. Idk if its from something in the bios but Speedstep is disabled as is EPU. I only enabled XMP profile to set the ram at 2400mhz. As far as I know the CPU is running at 3.5ghz and turbo's to 3.9ghz. Since that's what CPU-Z says.

Though in games like League of Legends and CS:GO its all fine, my conclusion is that those types of games really don't require a lot and so my cpu at whatever rate its going at the moment is able to handle those types of games. I played Marvel Heroes and noticed a bit of stuttering, with the frame rate drops.

I just feel pretty sure with these speccs my computer should handle these games fine and should be yielding better results because my friend has a lesser cpu (forgot what model) and a pretty poor gpu and handles WoW just the same as my computer and can play Diablo 3 flawlessly.

Feel free to suggest anything, whether its in the BIOS or windows.

*Note I have tried almost anything that came to mind. Downloading the newest drivers from Asus, to not even downloading any drivers and letting windows just update things. I have changed the power options to maximum performance. I also have updated the bios succesfully.
 

Stoopkid12

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It's definitely not the internet, I have like 60mbps upload and 60 mpbs download, 9 ms when I connect the Ethernet. I even disabled the wireless card. With wireless it's like 40 up and 40 down at 12 ms. I am sitting right next to the modem when I ran these tests. I think I even uninstalled the wireless drivers at some point and just tried Ethernet. Same results.
 

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Those results were earlier today, I just reinstalled windows and updated all the necessary drivers. I only have Microsoft security essentials and google chrome. No additional programs. Also have World Of Warcraft to see if the results had changed. Nothing, still pretty bad for what I am running.
 
AT Anand tech I found this
"Another design choice made by ASUS is relating to the final PCIe slot. The board is wired up for PCIe 3.0 x8/x8 from the CPU and an additional PCIe 2.0 x4 from the chipset. ASUS have configured the chipset to output a total of eight PCIe 2.0 lanes, to power all the PCIe 2.0 x1 slots (of which there are four), various controllers and the final full length PCIe slot. However, in order to give everything wired up full bandwidth requires more than eight lanes, and thus various resources are shared. As a result, this final full length PCIe 2.0 runs at x1 by default, and requires a BIOS option to change it to x4, which in the process disables at least the ASMedia SATA 6 Gbps controller, reducing the total number of SATA 6 Gbps ports by two. "
As long as you are not in the 3rd slot.
-Bruce
 

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I also have a 4770k and have found my FPS drops in Diablo 3 to be sound related and I believe it is simply poor blizzard execution. Try turning down your sound quality to the lowest and see if it makes a difference in your frame drops.
 

Stoopkid12

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Ok so I moved the GPU to the other slot and it yields the same results. I already looked into the sound and I tried it and it did nothing as well. Also the headset is a good thought. Unfortunately I made this post just after I re-installed windows and only downloaded the ASUS MOBO drivers and GPU DRIVERS. So then I downloaded WoW and Diablo 3 and tested it and it was still poor. It seems like once the computer starts to actually need the power that my GPU OR CPU can dish out, it just doesn't have it, yielding in terrible FPS.
 

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Well while I have MSI afterburner on, I have World of Warcraft up as well. I look at the GPU and it seems to hover around 70% usage, but most of the work on the CPU is on core 8 and 6. 8 got to like 85% and 6 got to like 70%, while the other 6 cores were below 20% whilst looking at the game. Obviously when I do other processes it jumped up so the highest number won't represent the in-game effects. Am I missing something here? I unparked the cores as well. It just seems like something is holding my computer back. With those numbers I gave i averaged 35-45fps in the middle of a major city with a decent population standing still. In raids (if you guys are familiar with the game) if it gets really intensive I get like 20 fps. !700 dollar computer to get that fps in games? Like wth is blizzard rocking then lol. My friend has a lesser computer and runs it flawlessly. Do you guys think its a hardware issue or am I missing some sort of driver or something keeping my computer from doing what it's supposed to.
 

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Also it's not just WoW, also diablo 3 and many other games that seem to actually benefit from decent hardware. It's an overall experience on anything with my computer, not just pinpointing certain games or gaming companies. Even when I load up my computer, the icons on my desktop will be there then they will go white and then it takes like 30 secs just for them to go back to their icon image.
 

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Well, in games like WoW with absurd amount of people standing in one area will cause it to lag no matter your specs. Try running a single player game and see what your fps is. It could be that those games have terrible optmization, i know WoW does.

Also, correct me if im wrong but isnt core 6 and 8 virtual threads(hyperthreading). If so why isnt it loading the true cores.
 

Stoopkid12

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Yea I am not sure about the cores, that is out of my knowledge but, even in single player games it can get bad, stuttering and fps drops. For the WoW example, it would make no sense why my friends computer does better than mine, when his computer is worse than mine. It isn't WoW or the games, it's my computer, that's the issue here.