Severe Drop in FPS

[nichoals013192]

Hi,
I am having severe drops in fps in my games. I usually get 40 to 50 fps. Now with my games I average around 10 to 20 sometimes, this has just started to happen around 2 days ago. Just wondering what could cause this. My graphics card is a gtx 560 ti PNY, I have a intel i5 2500k cpu, and I am running the games on highest at 720p. Thanks.
Nick

 

[Sunius]

Hey there. Would you mind downloading HWMonitor from www.cpuid.com, and checking the temperatures right after severe drop in FPS happens? It's most likely overheating.

 

[nichoals013192]

Hey there. Would you mind downloading HWMonitor from www.cpuid.com, and checking the temperatures right after severe drop in FPS happens? It's most likely overheating.

Hi,
I looked at the temps and it is only getting around 40-45 degrees celsius while playing battlefield 3 on ultra. So I don't think it is overheating. Could it be a bad update or something, because this all started to happen after I downloaded an update for origin. Could the origin update effect games like gta iv, because gta iv is also having low fps.