Amd fx-8350 throttling down to 1.4 ghz in GTA 5

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

as the title says, my cpu is throttling down to 1.4 ghz, all my power saving options are turned off in bios, i'm running a 8350 on a m5a78l-m asus motherboard, and a gtx 660 2gb with 8gb of ram

clifford64 · Apr 19, 2015

is it effecting your frame rate? do you have an overclock? and are you using the stock cooler and if so what kind of temps are you getting?

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

clifford64 :

effecting my frame rate greatly, going from 90-100 fps to 25-40, no overclock, it's still at stock 4.0 ghz, my system is water cooled and i have 30 C idle, 42 max while in game

clifford64 · Apr 19, 2015

what game are you trying to play?

clifford64 · Apr 19, 2015

try to unpark the cores and make sure in power management you have it set to high performance. you have to find it in control panel because i am assuming its a desktop so it doesn't show it in the taskbar

bmacsys · Apr 19, 2015

Austin Eubanks :

You have a lousy motherboard. Its either throttle the cpu or the mosfets explode.

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

clifford64 :

i've already unparked the cores and it's on high performance

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

bmacsys :

what motherboard would you recommend, and i'd have to reinstall windows correct?

clifford64 · Apr 19, 2015

does this happen on other games as well? such as battlefield 4 or something else?

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

clifford64 :

yes it did on bf4, but i fixed it by disabling APM, or the amd turbo core booster, but that doesn't work on gta 5

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

clifford64 :

yes it did on bf4, but i fixed it by disabling APM, or the amd turbo core booster, but that doesn't work on gta 5

clifford64 · Apr 19, 2015

save the settings in your mobo in a profile and restore default settings and see if anything changes. possibly see if you need a mobo bioos update.

Austin Eubanks · Apr 19, 2015

clifford64 :

bios is up to date, i'll give default a go

bmacsys · Apr 20, 2015

Austin Eubanks :

You need a 970 or 990 FX board with 8+2 phase power. A good cheap board is a GA-970A-UD3P. Your board just does not have the means to supply clean current to that cpu.

Jalero196 · Apr 21, 2015

Austin Eubanks :

I had the same problem yesterday, i have the same CPU and mobo as you. I was on a 4.5ghz overclock and it was making my VRM overheat. Now im at 4.0ghz with turbo off, and my voltage is at 1.34v and there is no fps drop anymore.

Austin Eubanks · Apr 21, 2015

thanks for all the help everyone, i'm getting a sabertooth 990fx

iknowreal · Apr 21, 2015

Yea they everyone seems to have pretty much said it. I have a 8350 and I am destroying gta v

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