Frame drops using Ryzen 5 1600x w/ Gtx 1060 6Gb

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majaro99

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Hey guys,



Ever since changing my cpu from an i7 2600 to an Ryzen 5 1600x I had the problem that even though my rig runs an average fps of 140, i would receive random microstutters where my Fps would drop to around 14 for a very short amount of time. What i noticed after doing a number of benchmarks was that the fps drops appear to be completely random as at times they would happen at the beginning the middle or just the very end of the R6 Benchmark.



So, my setup goes as follows:

Ryzen 5 1600x OC to 4 GHz

Asus Gtx 1060 6Gb turbo with a respectable OC

16 Gb of 3000Mhz Corsair Vengeance RGB Ram

Asus B350 f gaming motherboard

Evega 500w PSU

M.2 PCIe drive for Win 10 & R6

Runnig it all on an 1080p 144 Hz monitor



Now, I have tried playing around with the Nvidia controlpanel settings until i ended up simply matching those of a mate who has the same graphics card as that would give me the best fps on average.

My temps on both CPU and GPU never reach the point of thermal throttle, in fact neither of them passes the 65 C line at any point in time.

I have tried deactivating the win10 fullscreen optimization, though that didn't change anything.

Updating the Bios didn't bring any improvement either.

I repaired all the C++ redistributables.

I switched around between Borderless and Fullscreen.

I tried a number of different Vsync options.

I even set the R6 process to high priority without any success and at this point i just can't think of any further options other than trying a clean install.



A side note that might be worth taking into account could be the fact that I haven't been able to OC my memory to its full 3000MHz or even the usual 2100, instead it just hangs around at 1500, though I only played around with the XAMP settings instead of doing any indepth work with it since I don't have the slightest experience with Memory OC.



Thanks in advance for any help from you guys!
 
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there is no DDR4 running at 1500MHz.
it's probably 3000MHz as some programs display the "real" frequency which is half of what you see on sticks/specs which is "effective" speed. that's because DDR stands for Double Data Rate - means every tick transferring 2 bits. so for effective 3000MHz, it's only 1500MHz real clock speed.

The freezes/stuttering you describe could happen due to "bad overclock". Basically overclocking pascal GPUs is pointless.
Try to set everything, but RAM to defaults and see what happens. if you get smooth gameplay, there was a problem with one of the components. temperature is only one of the limits, there are others like current/power limits which can cause frequency throttling. when frequency is fluctuating, you might get those stutters
 
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So I had reset everything but the ram to stock settings and yet im still getting the framedrops... What now? Could it be the PSU?

UPDATE: I actually just noticed that my GPU still clocks to 1900 Mhz even thought the advertised boost clock is said to only be 1700 MHz. Now, I did reset afterburner to normal settings and then unistalled it, but it appears that the Graphics clock (not the Memory one) is still applied...
 
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it's normal for pascal to boost way over the advertised clocks.
Mine boosts by default to 1950 with advertised 17xx.

the older i7 can actually provide higher FPS. but such freezes shouldn't happen with your HW.
Can you enable the monitoring overlay and see what happens to CPU/GPU utilization during those drops.

I doubt it's related to PSU - your system under gaming load barely draws 200w from the wall.
 
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Alright, so i used msi afterburner to monitor CPU & GPU usage and then recorded the benchmarks and it seems like every framedrop the usage drops down to around 40-50% even though it usually hangs around 70 %.
Can you make anything of that? I had reset win 10 completeley since then and taken care of all drivers...

 
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majaro99

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Sorry for not clarifying. GPU usage would drop while CPU stayed around the same by the looks of it.

Edit: it actually drops down to roughly 10 % and CPU usage stays completely unaffected.
 
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So i ran the Benchmark again and disabling SMT gave me far worse results than without and RAM/ CPU usage both stay constant during the GPU usage drops. Also is neither of them at an overly high usage witht he CPU actually only hanging around at roughly 70-80%.
 
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if you check the per core utilization, you will see that few cores are at 100%.
those drops usually happen when the CPU is not able to do something either due to load or due to missing data that needs to be fetched from RAM or even worse, from storage.
 
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Alright, so i ran another benchmark with the CPU at 4 Ghz and not undervolted and then i recorded the core usage of all 12 cores where they all are between 40 % and 65 % usage while also following the same trend. Not one of them is anywhere near the 100% mark while bench marking. I lso tried updating th emotherboard bios without having any success with the following results. Should i maybe download the chipset driver from the AMD website and see if that brings a change?

Thanks btw. for you ongoing support regarding this problem, I really appreciate it!
 
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Won't be at home for a day or so but i cant tell you from here that its corsair RGB Vengence 3000 Mhz Ram (the CMR16 one) and it is OC to 1498 Mhz using the XAMP settings.
 
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