Good Pc but bad fps

stigjam

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My PC:
Mobo: Asus z270-a
CPU: i5 7600k
GPU: GTX 960 FTW
16gb ram
1tb Hard drive

I believe this is a fairly good pc
I play games like Rocket league and h1z1 kotk. Now sometimes when i play rocket league i will get my 200fps for maybe one 5 minute game. However it will drop and sit around 60-70 constantly and never go back up no matter what i do. The only fix that i have found myself is restarting my pc. This is really annoying as i should be getting more fps. This happens with all my games it will eventually after like 2 minutes of playing drop and sit at 60fps and be choppy.

Some people say that it could be my hard drive and i should get an SSD, is this the problem it sounds like it shouldn't be, I still have 500gb free on my hard drive as well so its not like its full.

Note: I recently changed from 1150 to 1151 socket and built it myself (I'm not sure if this is a problem idk just putting it in there, yes i bought ddr4 ram).
 
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Actually a attuned gamer eye like mine can easily tell the difference between 60, 90 even 120 FPS. Granted the you need to play a lot of games and/or have a very good eye but the difference can be quite clear. Granted this in not everyone but I do get it. I play 60Hz/FPS now for the most part since I use a 55" UHDTV (4K) so I don't have a choice right now but I...

jeruka9

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for me sounds like your videocard maybe was overclocked or drivers are buggy
only there is reason of fps falling
and did your card its not too hot ? on radeons and nvidia fps can fall just by high temperature
other thing is game settings too high for card (filtering)
im dont know how good is your gpu
but i tell one thing no hdd erorr who tell you so stupid things
if HDD and SSD have errors :
game load slowly ,you can lost data (badsectors etc..)
if aplication frozen from no reason its error of ram
if you overclocked everything back to default settings or minumim of overclocking
about temperature once again :
bad old thermal paste which not make enough cooling
temperature not fall and low fps
anyway high voltage and temperature by overclocking can destroy videocard ram
so card start be "junky" and less stable
the same with CPU(voltage and temperature)
thats all
 

stigjam

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It doesn't drop a bit tho it goes from 150+ and then drops to 60 and stays at 60 for the rest of the day will never go back up unless i restart.
 

stigjam

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Guys i still cant fix the problem, I have ran HWMonitor and the gpu utilization results are Value: 95% Min 86% Max 97% this is after playing rocket league as well, my cpu utilization is UC Value: 30% Max 88% and all the other CPY#0#2#4#6 are value around: 20-40% and Max: 80-90%
 

jeruka9

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for me thermal paste or have 12 inch fan close to card its sounds funny
but it seems your card cant cool down too much heat
and will be sound's rude but make medicore settings in games
too much stress too high use and temperature so gtx is not enough
you can also try moded drivers for extra setting
: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=396952
its experimental *MODED* for extra settings and performance
so better have a copy of windows
(backup or restoration point)
but for *STABLE* you need set up :
vertical sync
anisotropic filtering
antialiasing x4
SSAO
you should have stable 60 fps
drop out is because card is hot and
you not set up fps limit
so fps jump and drop
and because of that you not feel real performance
those settings above are for compromise between quality and performance
thats why they lie about only 60 fps none of existing machines
cant be fully stable at her full potential
so there are limits
 

stigjam

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It's already set to that, thanks for the suggestion tho
 
Assuming that your gpu temps are fine (please confirm) then this is probably a driver issue. Did you follow atomicwar's suggestion and reinstall the latest drivers after uninstalling with DDU?

You should also make sure that your BIOS is up to date.

Have you overclocked your GPU at all?
 

atomicWAR

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Actually a attuned gamer eye like mine can easily tell the difference between 60, 90 even 120 FPS. Granted the you need to play a lot of games and/or have a very good eye but the difference can be quite clear. Granted this in not everyone but I do get it. I play 60Hz/FPS now for the most part since I use a 55" UHDTV (4K) so I don't have a choice right now but I long for the days of CRT and a 120Hz panel in games like Q3A. Competitive shooters are the easiest place to see this difference in frame rates. So IMHO I get why someone could complain about 60 FPS.
 
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