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A youtuber called "XBnPC" claims that there are only 3 motherboards atm with confirmed controllers to change the base clock to get the highest possible RAM frequencies, these are the "ASRock Taichi", "Asus Crosshair VI Hero" and the "Gigabyte Gaming K7". These motherboards are quite expensive, the cheapest is as expensive as a Ryzen 1600x processor. I rather buy something cheaper (B350 or low end X370) while getting a bit less performance.

Can anybody advise me a motherboard or a manufacturer? I don't want to spend more than €200 on a motherboard since I'm gonna buy a ryzen 5 1600x or 1600, I already bought some 3600Mhz G.Skill RGB memory aswell if at some point in time motherboards would support higher memory speeds than 3600Mhz. It's really hard to figure out what the better motherboards are below this pricepoint, because newer bios revisions seem to constantly affect performance. At first I wanted to buy the gigabyte b350 gaming 3, but on their website they haven't uploaded a new bios for this board since 24/02 which bothers me quite a bit. I'd appreciate any opinion on this topic.

@sgtcool I've tested the GPU usage in a few games: Everything was tested on more or less the max settings at 1080p with nothing else running in the background The CPU usages represent the CPU usage that is used by the game only, NOT the total cpu usage. CS GO: CPU usage: 65%-80% GPU usage: 50%-75% (Peak: 88%) FIFA 15: CPU usage: 70%-93% GPU usage: 60%-99% GTA V: CPU usage: 87%-95% GPU usage: 85%-99% - CS GO is running perfectly fine, but I added is as a reference - In FIFA there was no lag what so ever, however when I would do some extra stuff that would make the total CPU usage spike to 100% it would start stuttering - GTA V in game is all good, whenever I enter the main menu the cpu and gpu usage drop but I can't navigate properly through the menu because it's so laggy Also when I alt tab to other applications, while playing GTA then the applications run very slow Note: all the previous efforts that I already did seem to have improved my gaming experience (lag in FIFA dissapeared and the CPU usages dropped quite a bit in pretty much every game), but they still seem a little high to me, or is this perfectly normal?

@sgtcool I'll check the GPU usage tomorrow when I have some more time and I hope the lag gets patched out and yes the real issues only happen in GTA V and FIFA 15, but the CPU usages seem pretty high to me in other games too or is this perfectly normal? @Skreedles Known in game issues: FIFA 15: audio stuttering GTA V: background task lags and when I go to the main menu it is very laggy the first 10 seconds Also when I want to view a livestream + play FIFA, the fifa audio starts stuttering pretty badly.

Greetings While playing games my cpu usage ramps up to 90%+ and even 100%. The issue is known in almost every game I've played (cs go, FIFA 15, GTA V, Far Cry 4, Battlefield 4) Note: in some games it's not that big of a deal but it still is extremely high, however when there are spikes to 100% I start experiencing inconveniences. Known in game issues: FIFA 15: audio stuttering GTA V: background task lags and when I go to the main menu it is very laggy the first 10 seconds My Specs: Windows 8.1 i5 4690k @4.3 GHz 4x 2gb (8GB) RAM @1333 MHz Asus Maximus VII Ranger GTX 970 Asus Strix Things I've already tried: Of course I've googled a lot of information and tried out some stuff to get rid of this. I've seen some small improvements, but nothing seems to make a big difference. - resetting everything to default in BIOS - updating BIOS, all drivers etc - Checked CPU temps and they're OK - unparking CPU in registry - disabling Speedstep Technology and CPU C-states in BIOS - overclocking manually, automatically, running at stock speed - playing with nvidia control panel settings I'm hoping for someone to come with a real solution or at least an explanation. I've seen lots of people on youtube running games with simular setups without any problems. Thanks in advance to everyone trying to help me out!