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namesconnor

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Hello, I am trying to understand why my computer is dropping frames in games. I get about 30fps on league of legends on medium settings (I know) and it drops to 10 fps during big fights.

Here are my specs:
AMD FX 8320 Processor 3.5Ghz
16GB Ram
ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970 Overclocked 4 GB DDR5
M5A78L-MLX Series Motherboard
1 TB Harddrive
Watercooled

I don't think my cpu is overheating, but when i view coretemp the temperature is jumping like crazy (like 30 degrees celcius to 42 degrees celcius) while resting.
I started coretemp to run while I played league of legends and my computer black screened and restarted.

I don't understand what's wrong. I should easily be getting 60 fps, but I can't. I don't know if something is wrong with my cpu, or what, but it's concerning.
 
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DSzymborski

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What are you getting in AMD Overdrive? That's what you really should be using (get the temperature margin). The biggest red flag at first glance is you're using a CPU with a TDP of 125W on a budget motherboard that can only support 95W CPUs, a pretty big no-no which is just begging for issues like this - I'm betting the VRMs are very hot in your build.
 
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namesconnor

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@DSzymborski i think i messed up, my motherboard is actually ASUS M5A78L-M LX Plus [VGA] i dont know if that makes a difference, but I will download the overdrive and test it out
 
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While that one does technically support 125W unlike the first one, they still tend to run poorly on motherboards with the AMD 760G chipset. The FX 125W CPUs aren't meant for the budget motherboard segment.
 
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So upon looking at the thermal margins for each cpu, they all just like crazy. Like from 9 degrees celcius all the way up to 24 degrees in less than a second. This is on overdrive. I don't know why it's doing this.
 
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