Problem with freezing and low fps with new RX 480 GPU

Sellis53

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GPU: MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 GAMING X 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support ATX Video Card, no crossfire

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 Haswell Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 84W BX80646I54690 Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

RAM: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

PSU: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply

Operating System & Version: Windows 10

So fairly recently I got a new graphics card, an RX 480, to replace my dated R9 280. I was super excited to play Skyrim and actually get the fps I should, and yet I don't. I've posted this before but it never got fixed so I'm doing it again. In Skyrim my 480 gives me about 45 fps, and occasionally dips below 25. This is the Special Edition with a decent amount of mods installed, but not too many graphically demanding ones. In certain games (Pillars of Eternity, Killing Floor 2) the game will freeze repeatedly, rendering it unplayable. This freezing never stops. Here is an example of the freezing:

http://plays.tv/video/58a0b41a4d6cc7cce6/lag
The game plays exactly how the video looks. Games this occurs in that I know of:

Tyranny

Pillars of Eternity

Atlas Reactor

Killing Floor 2

Troubleshooting I've done:
Uninstalled and reinstalled drivers multiple times. Monitored various hardware stats during gaming and discovered that my GPU usage drops to 50% every single time the game freezes. The problem is that I don't know what exactly causes the drops.

Please help, thank you.
 

adiec

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i was asking if you had undervolted because the maximum power drawn by your gpu according to msi afterburner screeenshot you posted.. is 114w .. the card should be drawing more power than that i think..close to 150w. i could be wrong but it seems odd that it isn't drawing more power at 100% load.

i'm no expert though on gpu's. i have recently bought a rx 480 myself and it draws close to 150w at 100% load at stock settings.