Getting very low FPS and constant drops. VERY UNSTABLE

enrocoo

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I used to play every game at 60 fps 1080p and suddenly every game I play is running incredibly slow and when i get high fps it immediately drops to around 20 or 15fps so it's really unstable, Fallout 4(40-20fps), New Vegas (50-20fps), CoD:WW2 (50-15fps). This goes with any game no matter how demanding. After Hurricane Maria electricity in PR has been very unstable so there has been a lot of sudden power outages, maybe that damaged something.

I've uninstalled amd drivers and reinstalled them, updated them.
took gpu out and cleaned it, took cpu out cleaned thermal paste and applied a new layer. My motherboard is marking 99*celcius but Afterburner is marking 51* in idle. I've cleaned malware. Cleaned all fans. HELP

GPU: MSI Radeon R9 390
(I'll Provide other specs when i get home)

 
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Liquid cooling doesn't mean the best cooling, there's air coolers that outperform some of the AIO liquid coolers. DO what was suggested, take off and reapply thermal compound and re-seat your heat sink.

Also did you make sure all your fans are working correctly?

Something like these should handle any of your heat just fine.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/93Crxr/cryorig-cpu-cooler-h7
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hmtCmG/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2

enrocoo

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I entered BIOS and it says CPU temp 99*celcius and Motherboard 43*celcius
My mother board is the MSI Z97 Gaming 5
Intel core i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with the stock cooler, I'm waiting for a liquid cooler that's supposed to arrive tomorrow.
Current CPU Freq: 2.50GHz
Current DRAM Freq: 1333 MHz
I suspect it's the heat sink on the cpu cooler which is really dirty.
 

Greg Gregorich

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if its long enough consider reapply thermal paste and you should be ok with stock cooler ,but it kind of depends on PC case . did the case have at least two fans intake and exoust and they free of dust.

 
Liquid cooling doesn't mean the best cooling, there's air coolers that outperform some of the AIO liquid coolers. DO what was suggested, take off and reapply thermal compound and re-seat your heat sink.

Also did you make sure all your fans are working correctly?

Something like these should handle any of your heat just fine.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/93Crxr/cryorig-cpu-cooler-h7
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hmtCmG/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2
 
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