FPS Drop in ALL Games!

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Luke Field

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I noticed this a couple of months ago and it has been annoying me ever since. In most if not all of my games I get FPS drops every minute or so, for example FIFA 15 (in a game) 120fps average then goes down to 30-50fps now this shouldn't be a problem at 50fps but due to the fact that it goes from high to low it stutters the game and lags it.

This happens in pretty much all my games, and when I record with any recorder during the times when these fps drops occur my fps goes to 20fps as I record at 60fps.

Specs:

AMD FX 8350
XFX R9 280x
8GB RAM
Hyper 212 evo cooler

Temps when gaming:

CPU goes to around 60 degrees average
GPU goes to around 65-70 degrees average

Is my computer overheating, these temps should be fine from what I've seen around.

I don't really want to defrag my hard drive though as I've got a bunch of games which always annoy me to download as it is so time consuming to do so.

 
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If you are recording don`t expect to have the best gaming performance. Especially when using FRAPS. If you wanted to have the best gaming performance while recording get an external video recording card.

FRAPS takes a lot of storage and it consumes lot of CPU load which will cause your system to slow down while gaming.
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Luke Field

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Updated the drivers and get a better average frame rate (using fraps to see framerate), in FIFA 15 average frame rate was 160 in a game and this dropped to between 90 and 100 on cinematics such as replays etc. Started recording with fraps and after a couple seconds lag started fps went from 60 (recording fps) to 20 fps, so stopped recording and it was on 40-50fps then went up to 160 again, then throughout game it varied from 160fps to lag spikes bringing it down to 30-50fps. During these lag spikes I was on task manager and my CPU usage was going to 99-100% which it shouldn't and when these ended it went back down to 20-40% usuage which is fine under gaming.

Any suggestions now? I am now almost certain it is a CPU problem but not sure any answers are appreciated.
 
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Luke Field

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Scratch what I said before just played another game closed it all down used Dxtory instead to watch fps didn't record and still going down to 20,30,40 and 50 fps and the CPU usage goes to 60-100% not 99-100%.
 
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Luke Field

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Max it has got to is 65 degrees and that is what it was before I upgraded my CPU cooler to the hyper 212 evo, it may just need new thermal paste on it as I am not the best at that stuff. Average temp when gaming 50 degrees - 65 degrees and for the gpu it is between 60 degrees and 70 degrees.
 
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GPU temp is fine. I really need to know MAX temp of the cpu, not average, not a range, the Max. The reason for this is is that I'm seeing reports indicating that max core (not CPU) temp for an Fx8350 is 62C, at which point it'll start throttling, but AMD doesn't say anything officially on this. Therefore you are very close to, and probably beyond this limit, hence the symptoms you are seeing. If you have the ability to show actual cpu clockspeed (live on a second screen perhaps, or recording it on a trace) then you'll see whether it is throttling .
 
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Luke Field

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I just did a run with coretemp and hwmonitor on FIFA 15 it was lagging as if it was on 20fps but was showing 60fps until I closed a program down which had installed with coretemp by accident, then it went to over 100fps but went down to 40fps every once in a while. The max temperature I got was 64 degrees.
 
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Luke Field

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I don't know how to check the cpu frequency or how to manually adjust fanspeed to max. Tommorow I am going to give everything a clean get rid of dust and then see if I have my thermal paste lying around and add a new layer onto my cpu and see if that helps.
 
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Luke Field

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Ran for 15 minutes so far and started off same around 3991 mhz then went to 4090 mhz for a second and then to 3991 mhz again but every now and then it drops to 1396 mhz for a second or 2 and then goes up to 3991 mhz again. Guessing that means its throttling? Also temps max was 52 degrees.
 
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