Is my fx6300 bottlenecking my r7 370

Darlek899 · Mar 26, 2017

I built my computer last August and it has been running fine up until about two week so ago when my frames suddenly dropped in all games on my computer, I have a fx6300 (not overclocked) and r7 370. I don't think it's a software problem because I tried reinstalling drivers instaling old drivers and even wiped my computer, and updated the bios. Is it possible that my fx6300 is bottlenecking the r7 370

sizzling · Mar 26, 2017

What are your CPU and gpu temperatures while gaming?

Ravi Sankar · Mar 26, 2017

See CPU & GPU utilization graph while playing games you would come to know easily which one is bottlencking

Darlek899 · Mar 26, 2017

My cpu temp are around 40-55 and flu 60-70, and in getting different reads on cpu and gpu usage from different apps

Ravi Sankar · Mar 26, 2017

Darlek899 :

Yes fluctuations are different for different applications, agreed,
You need to reproduce actual problem and you need to capture CPU & GPU graph at the point you are facing issue, (i.e. frames drop) so that you will come to know whether it is any hardware limitation or software issue or virus or some other scan issue etc

Darlek899 · Mar 26, 2017

Is there any application you would recommend? And in task manager my cpu goes to 40% usage max under stress test and about 60% usage in differnt applications like speccy and aod

Darlek899 · Mar 26, 2017

And also I believe it's the processor either botlenecking or being faulty so I was thinking of getting a fx8350 will this botleneck the r7 370?

Ecky · Mar 26, 2017

If things suddenly changed, that suggests a problem that needs fixing. Changing your CPU and nothing else will probably not resolve the issue, unless the issue happens to be fixed during the replacement of the CPU.

Darlek899 · Mar 27, 2017

Darlek899 :

Ecky :

I've tried everything I've seen online and nothing works do you have any suggestions

Ravi Sankar · Mar 27, 2017

Run the benchmark from the following, it could give you useful information to detect root cause
http://www.userbenchmark.com/
http://passmark.com

Darlek899 · Mar 27, 2017

Ravi Sankar :

I ran the user benchmark and my gpu ran as expected but my cpu (fx6300) got a gaming score of 18.3 and the site says it can barely handle light web browsing. I never ran the test before my frames started dropping but I'm sure the gaming score would of been higher.
Do you think this means my cpu is faulty?

Ravi Sankar · Mar 27, 2017

Darlek899 :

No!
Faulty CPU always crash whole system intermittently. If you doubt on your CPU, you can run CPU intensive test like Furmark CPU burner and get confirmed but I think your CPU is fine

Now Make sure on the following things
-> Make sure CPU temperature is in acceptable range at higher loads
-> Make sure your PC does not contain any virus or malwares
-> Make sure you Secondary Disk Transfer Mode is 'Ultra DMA Mode 6 or 5', it should not be in PIO mode
(If your disk to mobo cabling system or interface gone bad, OS sets the disk mode to PIO mode that eats CPU cycles badly)
-> Make sure your Disk reads/writes are Ok
-> Make sure that all cabling system inside is working fine

All the best

Darlek899 · Mar 27, 2017

Ravi Sankar :

I don't think its to do with malware because I cleanly reinstalled windows 10 on it about 1/2 weeks ago.
My disk reads and writes normally.
When I tried to change to dma the advanced settings tab wasn't there? Not sure if I'm looking in the wrong place or something.
And when I ran stress tests or even ran games my cpu never went above 1400mhz, where as it should be able to reach 3500?

Ravi Sankar · Mar 27, 2017

Darlek899 :

Ravi Sankar :

I don't think its to do with malware because I cleanly reinstalled windows 10 on it about 1/2 weeks ago.
My disk reads and writes normally.
When I tried to change to dma the advanced settings tab wasn't there? Not sure if I'm looking in the wrong place or something.
And when I ran stress tests or even ran games my cpu never went above 1400mhz, where as it should be able to reach 3500?

ok ...
-> Can you run furmark CPU burner for a while with 6 to 12 threads and
-> see what CPU-Z is showing at the same time (while furmark is running), this is to make sure that CPU is getting right voltage (should get 1.4V to 1.43V on full-load) or multiplier issue
-> Install and open CoreTemp software to monitor temperature of CPU upon the loads ...
so that we could look further

Darlek899 · Mar 27, 2017

Ravi Sankar :

Darlek899 :

ok ...
-> Can you run furmark CPU burner for a while with 6 to 12 threads and
-> see what CPU-Z is showing at the same time (while furmark is running), this is to make sure that CPU is getting right voltage (should get 1.4V to 1.43V on full-load) or multiplier issue
-> Install and open CoreTemp software to monitor temperature of CPU upon the loads ...
so that we could look further

I will try all this but I've read on other threads that a lot of people were having this problem and they all used the same mobs as me (msi 970 gaming) so I'm going to try using one of my friends spare mobo to see if that works.

Darlek899 · Apr 1, 2017

Guys I fixed my problem, it wasn't a dodgy motherboard or software. It turns out that In my bios settings my cpu frequency was set to auto but was stuck at 7 in amd over drive, so I had to disable amd turbo core control.
Thanks to everyone who helped out.

Ravi Sankar · Apr 1, 2017

Darlek899 :

In your question, you had told that you have updated bios that was the reason why I missed to think about bios. Anyways, Thanks for the update. It is great that you solved yourself

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