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Joe Wood

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Hello, My PC was running perfectly on games such as CS:GO, Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, Since last week, I've consistently getting fps drops to 20fps. I have tried:
-Scanning my PC with Malwarebytes
-Defragmenting my Hard Drive
-Overclocking my GPU
- Wiping out Drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller and reinstalling the newest Nvidia Drivers,
I am now puzzled as to how I can fix this,
Is there anything else I can do to fix this?

Thanks.

Specs-
MSI Geforce GTX 970
AMD FX 8350 Processor
ASUS M5A78L-M Motherboard
600w Power supply
16GB DDR3 RAM
Seagate 2tb SSHD
 
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Zothik

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I would try monitoring your temperatures and the load of your CPU, RAM and HDD. I had an issue with FPS drops where it turned out to be a memory leak.
You should also do a virus scan where you boot your computer in safe mode. This way you will be able to find viruses that would otherwise be hiding.
 
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Joe Wood

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I just tested out a game of Left 4 Dead 2 whilst monitoring the temps:

Motherboard - 68°C
GPU - 55°C
SSHD - 36°C
CPU - 60°C


I'm not sure if my motherboard is the problem or not as I have been using that without any lag spikes for over a year now. I could be wrong though.


 
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I've just did a malwarebytes scan on Safe mode, No Malicious files found.
I've just monitored my DRAM Frequency in Speccy, Is the sudden increase and decrease normal? http://i.imgur.com/FvOF07N.png

 
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Zothik

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Be careful with defragmenting or cleaning your registry with any programs though, as it will often just break your OS.
Also, try to think of what the lastest things are, that you have done with your PC, since the problem just started occurring. It might be a program, a driver or something else that is causing the issue.
Otherwise try a system restore to a point before the problem occurred.
 
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I just ran a test again to see the temps, CPU and Motherboard are both 70c whilst playing games, Most likely this is what's causing my fps drops, I'll invest in a new fan and maybe a new motherboard to suit the FX 8350, This is probably the only other solution I can try.

EDIT: Could it be possibly that one of my components is dying? The lag spikes get better and worse each day.
 
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Try doing a clean install of Windows first. If that doesn't help it is probably the MOBO.
 
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A few tips. I was having Fps drops with my gtx 970 sli for rather odd reasons: 1. Fraps automatically just began recording and storing the videos in my Nvidia folder for weeks on its own before I noticed the folder was over 40gb size. So Check your task manager while you game to make sure Nvidia capture proxy isn't recording. 2. Your system might be C-Stating so you'll need to turn Cstate and Intel speedstep off in the bios. 3. Your PSU doesn't have the 140watt power draw the Gtx 970 requires. When reading the psu stats, look at the 3.3 & 5.5v To make sure it can draw over 140w. My GTX 970 SLI performed a lot better with a bronze 850 psu that had a 150w draw than my previous 1000w with a 120w draw. Hope that helps
 
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Thanks for clarify. I didn't know that. For some reason, I got confuse and thought read C state was its throttling down the CPU because a heavy load raising the temp or voltage to high. I just began about a month ago trying understand and properly OC. haha I am still jungling terms
 
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