Mayor FPS drops on 980ti + fx - 8350

DobsDies

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Feb 8, 2017
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Specs:

AMd FX-8350
ASrock 970 Extreme 4
16gb DDR 3 1333
GTX 980ti
Corsair 750 PSU
Kingston 250 ssd (Main)
samsung 1tb HD (Storage)
Windows 10

I am having a few issues with this system and i have looked through all the forums i can and tried everything people seem to suggest such as disable Cool n Quiet and set performance to high on windows.

so i have 2 issues the main one being i can play some games without problems and even one day i will play something like overwatch and run at a solid 70 - 80 fps all day with no problems but then other days i will be running at 70 fps and it suddenly drop to 14fps for no reason.

However other games such as GTA 5 and Watchdogs 2 runs at a solid 60fps and then randomly hits 14 to 15fps these spikes occur around every 10 mins or so.

No the other problem i get is when i am using my desktop it will freeze if i have things already open like a video or a webpage i can carry on watching it or browsing but it wont let me open anything new not even a document on my desktop and this lasts around 30 seconds and then goes away.

The reason i am saying both problems are because i am not sure if they are related or not.

Please if someone can give any suggestions it would be much appreciated.

(P.s. sorry about grammer, spelling and all that as i am a horrible writer.)
 
Solution
Because you are using liquid cooling you have no airflow trought the vrm and otehr components and they are overheating (vrms are the voltage regulator which feeds power to the cpu and yes they can overheat and no they dont have any temperature sensor to be sure). Try to put a regular 120mm or 80mm fan to blow directly at the vrms. This are the vrms.
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Dark Lord of Tech

Retired Moderator
That board will never be real stable with a 125w CPU , it has a poor power phase and thermal design.
" For cooling the CPU and its surrounding components, please install a CPU cooler with a top-down blowing design. "
That's why they have this warning on the CPU support page.
 

DobsDies

Commendable
Feb 8, 2017
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I have liquid cooling on the CPU and the temperature even when i stress test it is at 45c I have not overclocked anything in this pc either.
 
Because you are using liquid cooling you have no airflow trought the vrm and otehr components and they are overheating (vrms are the voltage regulator which feeds power to the cpu and yes they can overheat and no they dont have any temperature sensor to be sure). Try to put a regular 120mm or 80mm fan to blow directly at the vrms. This are the vrms.
6lEWVff.jpg
 
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