Constant low FPS in all games?

MatthewJFannon

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Hello forums,
I am in search of help on how to once and for all fix my Gaming PC,
-AMD 6300
-XFX 7850
-8gb Corsair ram
-750m Corsair PSU

I built my gaming PC about 6 months ago, Worked perfectly fine for 4 months or so. Then, I faced with a problem. The PC had fell of the table whilst turned on (Sisters!). I Lifted the PC and instantly restarted it, Booted it fine, Ran windows, chrome, steam ect. I then booted DayZ standalone, And I do understand the Dayz is not the best optimized game for performance, But the game was NOT playable. I'm not talking about Fps *drops* but Constant very low FPS. I thought to myself weather It was only DayZ. But no... CSGO, Left for dead, Arma everything was almost unplayable (Except CSGO, Did have a huge fps downfall, But still playable). I had not searched for help as of yet, But this has gone to FAR. This is not thermal throttling, I even used my warranty to replace to CPU, Which has had no effect. I have read threads like this, but the one difference is that that there are no FPS drops but constant low FPS to the point that %99.9 of games are unplayable. Any help would be SOO much help as this is limiting my PC Gaming experience. Please anyone respond because this has gone to far. Thank you.

 
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Sounds to me like either the CPU or GPU is stuck in a low power state. Assuming Windows, I would probably use HWiNFO to graph the clock speeds, load, and temps of the CPU and GPU while doing a test run in a game to see what's going on.

mdocod

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I know you said "this is not thermal throttling" but I just want to make sure of something...

Have you checked that the fall didn't cause any of the heatinks on any of your system components to come loose? Many of these on the motherboard are held down by really simple spring clips that could EASILY be jarred loose by a fall. On the AM3+ platform, the chipset itself provides all communication from the CPU to the GPU as it is the PCIE controller. If the heatsink on the chipset popped loose, I would expect it to go into a limp mode of sorts and cause major performance problems.

There's also a heatsink on your southbridge, this is less likely to be the source of a performance problem but it's possible.

There's also of course a heatink and fans on your GPU. Have you observed GPU temps while attempting to game?
 

mdocod

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Sounds to me like either the CPU or GPU is stuck in a low power state. Assuming Windows, I would probably use HWiNFO to graph the clock speeds, load, and temps of the CPU and GPU while doing a test run in a game to see what's going on.
 
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