FPS drops with GTX 960 and AMD FX-8350

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Pooooophead

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Hi,

All the time when I am playing Battlefield 1 or Overwatch, I always get huge FPS drops, going from around 70-85 FPS down to 5-20 FPS for around 10 seconds. Sometimes when the FPS drops, the audio stutters too.

At first I thought the problem may have been my CPU overheating as it kept on reaching 70-80ºC really easily, but I got a new cooler (ARCTIC Freezer 13 CO) the other day and am still getting huge FPS drops.

My specs:
GPU: MSI NVIDIA Gtx 960 Gaming 2 GB
CPU: AMD Series FX-8350 4.0Ghz 8X Black Edition
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme4
PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 620W
RAM: 16GB (4 x 4GB) Corsair Vengeance

My CPU temperature now only reaches around 60ºC and my GPU temperature is around 50ºC.

I have tried updating my graphics drivers, unparking my CPU cores, scanning for any viruses or malicious software, assigning my games the maximum power and uninstalling then reinstalling Windows 10. I don't know what the problem is so I have no clue how to fix it.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.
 
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Supernova1138
Check your CPU clockspeed and make sure it is staying at 4GHz. You have a board with weak VRMs and that may be causing throttling on your CPU. ASRock's CPU support list recommends a top down blower CPU cooler with the FX 8350 due to that chip's high power draw. The Arctic Freezer 13 CO is not a top down blower cooler.
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Supernova1138

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Check your CPU clockspeed and make sure it is staying at 4GHz. You have a board with weak VRMs and that may be causing throttling on your CPU. ASRock's CPU support list recommends a top down blower CPU cooler with the FX 8350 due to that chip's high power draw. The Arctic Freezer 13 CO is not a top down blower cooler.
 
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Miquel_1

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Hi men, arround 1 year ago i had the same problem than you. I had the same CPU, motherboard and GPU and my ssolution was change the motherboard because the CPU voltatges of the Asrock 970 Extreme 4 is about 4 + 2 and the fx8350 needs 8+2 becausse have eightcore. I hope that helped you, my problem was fixed changing the motherboard to an a Gigabyte XA-990fx-ud3.
 
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