Motherboard or processor seems to be bottlenecking my graphics card

oskar.hallur · Nov 17, 2017

Hello my pc seems to be running slowly used to run games on 100+fps but now goes from 20-40
It jumps up and down.
Specs>
Amd fx 8350
Gtx 970 gaming
Gigabyte 1070
corsair vengence 2x
750w power supply

clutchc · Nov 17, 2017

I had a FX-8350 and a GTX 970 awhile back. That should be a well-balanced combo for 1080p gaming at high settings. I'd say you have something eating resources when you game. Do you have other stuff running in the background when you game? Computer full of bloatware and ad-ware? Have you done a system clean up recently? Give CCleaner a run and do the Clean and Registry portions both.

Radioactive Gamer · Nov 18, 2017

The FX series is a bottle-neck. Just like clutchc said, you can do 1080p gaming, but you would be wasting card performance. Anybody who says otherwise must not really know, because I just built a Ryzen system, and even my 960 4GB became a rocket. The 8350 is not a true 8 core anyhow, it is 4 with hyper-threading. From my experience, FX has throttling issues as well. The best I can tell you in regards to performance loss, is to troubleshoot everything. Uninstall, and reinstall drivers. Check Ram to see if bad. Check for overheating, and maybe it is time for a new application of thermal compound?

Rdslw · Nov 21, 2017

when you see FPS "waves" its 90% chance its thermal. Especialy that you say it appeared with time. Buy compressed air, give your PC a nice blow.
This is a 5 min thing and can solve the issue

clutchc · Nov 21, 2017

If you check CPU usage, you may see the processor is throttling. When that happens, the clock speed will drop.

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