CPU, GPU and Power % are droppig causing massive FPS drops

[emailfaker110]

Allright: It all started a few months ago. I was playing and noticedsome FPS drops. Since then i tried to fix it. Here is what i figured out by now:

Every 5 seconds or so my GPU/CPU usage will just drop (GPU from 40 to ~5%) [the CPU went from 4 GHz to 1,5), wich causes low fps. I noticed this with the power % in the MSI Afterburner aswell. Some screenshots:

https://ibb.co/eV4Qfm
https://ibb.co/iX3OY6

My troubleshooting tries:
-removing serveral viruses/shady software (using kaspersky, malwarebytes, adwcleaner)
-updating all of my drivers
-upgrading from Windows 7 to 10
-cleaned PC (hard- and software)
-disabling several background processes
-high/low settings in games

I have no clue what the problem might be. GPU temperatures while gaming are not going up over 40-45 degrees.

Specs:

-GTX 960
-AMD FX 8350
-12 GB RAM
-Motherboard something from OEM (maybe ASRock 960gm/u3s3 or something really no clue)
-Bios from 2013: American Megatrends Inc. P1.40, 02.10.2013

Any ideas what is causing this?

 

[goldstone77]

Does it happen across the board on all games, or is this happening to a specific game? Side note Kaspersky is Russian and there is some sketchy links to Russian intelligence being reported, try Bitdefender it is easy on resources and one of the highest ranked.
Download and Install
https://www.piriform.com/speccy : So I can know exact motherboard
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html : So you can monitor your voltage and thermals.
Try running the game you have issues with in safemode, and so we can try to eliminate anything running in the background consuming resources.
You can also crtl+alt+del and look at performance in taskmanager and see if something is running in the background consuming resources.

 

[emailfaker110]

Does it happen across the board on all games, or is this happening to a specific game? Side note Kaspersky is Russian and there is some sketchy links to Russian intelligence being reported, try Bitdefender it is easy on resources and one of the highest ranked.
Download and Install
https://www.piriform.com/speccy : So I can know exact motherboard
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html : So you can monitor your voltage and thermals.
Try running the game you have issues with in safemode, and so we can try to eliminate anything running in the background consuming resources.
You can also crtl+alt+del and look at performance in taskmanager and see if something is running in the background consuming resources.

Yes its happening in literally every game, no matter if it is a Steam game or not. Im trying Out the antivirus, thanks for that And with the safe mode: Imma try it Out and i'll tell you what Happens ^^

 

[emailfaker110]

Does it happen across the board on all games, or is this happening to a specific game? Side note Kaspersky is Russian and there is some sketchy links to Russian intelligence being reported, try Bitdefender it is easy on resources and one of the highest ranked.
Download and Install
https://www.piriform.com/speccy : So I can know exact motherboard
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html : So you can monitor your voltage and thermals.
Try running the game you have issues with in safemode, and so we can try to eliminate anything running in the background consuming resources.
You can also crtl+alt+del and look at performance in taskmanager and see if something is running in the background consuming resources.

Allright: So it turns out that my motherboard is an: ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX
I disabled all of my antivirus: Kaspersky, Malwarebytes and even Windows Defender and still nothing changed. SecureMode did'nt work out for me neither.

 

[sizzling]

That motherboard only supports up to 95w CPU's, the 8350 is 125w. That board has very poor power design, my guess is the motherboard is throttling the cpu speed to stop the VRM's overheating.

 

[emailfaker110]

That motherboard only supports up to 95w CPU's, the 8350 is 125w. That board has very poor power design, my guess is the motherboard is throttling the cpu speed to stop the VRM's overheating.

So i need to buy a new motherboard? Or is there some kind of work-around?

 

[goldstone77]

I've seen things of this nature reported as being caused by bad surge protectors, but this is an outlier. What is the your make and model of your power supply? Did you install hardware monitor? Can you post a screen shot of it after a few min. of gaming. Thanks