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javmatic

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Hi I've only had my PC just under two months now and i'm so confused with why i get so many frame drops.
in my PC i have
i5 7400
pny gtx 1060 6gb
8gb (2x4) ddr4 2400mhz
asus prime b250m-plus
240gb san disk ssd
500gb hdd 7200rpm

no mater what game i play i get stutter whether it is csgo or overwatch all the way to PUBG (but i expect stutter in this even though my friends dont get any problems and they are using 1050 ti's)
when playing overwatch
cpu sits at around 50-60%
memory is mostly around 70%
and gpu is around 60%
then it will just drop and i get major stutter and this doesn't change if it change it from ultra to low.
i have reinstalled drivers for the card and fiddled with the 3D setting in the nvidia control panel. it has made no difference and it is really starting to irritate me please help find a solution/fix.
 
Solution
I think much stuttering comes from insufficient single thread capability from the master thread on which most games depend.
You might test this thesis in a back handed way by this experiment.

In windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 80%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
If the stuttering gets worse, you will know that you need faster cores.
I5-7400 has a stock clock of 3.0 going up to 3.5 turbo.

There are options for better performance, depending on what your motherboard chipset is.

Do not be misled by a 50% cpu busy statistic.

Windows will...

javmatic

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temps on both cpu and gpu dont go much above 60oC
 
I think much stuttering comes from insufficient single thread capability from the master thread on which most games depend.
You might test this thesis in a back handed way by this experiment.

In windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 80%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
If the stuttering gets worse, you will know that you need faster cores.
I5-7400 has a stock clock of 3.0 going up to 3.5 turbo.

There are options for better performance, depending on what your motherboard chipset is.

Do not be misled by a 50% cpu busy statistic.

Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.
It turns our that few games can usefully use more than 2-3 threads.
How can you tell how well threaded your games or apps are?
One way is to disable one thread and see how you do.

You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, it tells you that you will not benefit from more cores.
Likely, a better clock rate will be more important.
 
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javmatic

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ive got corsair vs 550watt psu