Second Place Silver

I did this just now, and despite making the frame rate look better in that game, it still said it was running at the same FPS, and seemingly it only made it worse in terms of CPU usage.

How may I go about doing this? I would love to give it a shot.

On Chrome I have a few plugins, yes. But the Firefox I used was vanilla. Nothing extra added to it at all, not even a theme.

Nope. I just updated it today, in fact. Also to be sure, I went to Firefox and it is also using a lot of CPU for a simple flash game. Just as much, in fact. Except instead of the background process being a Chrome tab, it displays as Adobe Flash Player 22.0 r0.

So I got my computer about 1 1/2 years ago and it was the best machine on the block! These days, however, even with the most updated of drivers, I found that watching a YouTube video with the mouse over it for the overlay causes my CPU to shoot up to nearly 40%. And if I full screen the video? Ha. It all but shoots up to the max, so much so, that the system itself crashes to a black screen with a cursor. At first I assumed the black screen thing was due to a virus or something. But I scanned with every scan under the sun, including a rootkit scan and scanning the registry. Nothing malicious found at all. Not even with a boot scan. It happened soon after I bought a Cintiq. So I assumed maybe a faulty driver that came with the art tablet. So I did a system restore back to before I installed the driver. It was after it happened again that I turned to the Task Manager. I began watching a video, and wouldn't you know it? My CPU shot through the roof. The same even happens with a simple little flash game known as AdventurQuest. (Shown performance when playing that game in the image attached.) There was a point that it would do a boot loop and not read the Windows files. I powered it down and thought about it. I removed 1 of my 3 monitors and suddenly it would start booting to Windows again, which is a step up, but now I cannot get this black screen thing to stop and the performance of the CPU is really saddening to look at. I was thinking maybe it's a PSU thing since it would boot loop and power itself off with 3 monitors. I should also note that I have my 2 monitors and my art tablet (Wacom Cintiq 13HD) into my GTX 980 GPU, not the motherboard. What can you guys gather from this? Should I buy a new higher wattage PSU (currently have a Corsair CX750M) and see if that might help? Or should I trash this CPU in favor of a new one of those instead? I kinda want an i7 6700K anyways, but it isn't currently in my budget. I just really need to solve this issue, because I depend on my computer for work. PS: If you want to know ALL of my specs, I have them on my profile!

So after doing this, I re-downloaded my GeForce Experience and my drivers, and I am now back up to the 120 to 300 FPS range on the Heaven Benchmark! You have saved both my life and my wallet! I can't thank you enough!

Definitely plugged into the GPU. What is DDU and how do I get me some of that? I will look this up and let you know if anything strange occurs.

So a little over 1 year ago today I built my dream PC and this GTX 980 was my absolute monster of a baby. But for about a month now, I have been getting super low FPS on everything I used to get good FPS on. I used to play Skyrim on Ultra and now when I launch it, it auto detects the best settings for my system as "low." Rocket League I max at 14 FPS, even on middle settings. This is absolutely unacceptable. It isn't because my drivers are out of date either. I have updated them even just today once more to try and see if that would fix the issue. It did not, however. The issue persists that I just can't even play any games anymore and I most certainly don't have another $500 to buy another one. What can I do to fix this problem? Has anybody else experienced something like this with a 980? I am pretty heartbroken over this, to be honest.

Rad, thanks! If it doesn't work out...well. Darn then I suppose.

Sorry for late reply, been a bit busy. Tis a Corsair CX750M.

Something something driver updates for fixes are a thing.

As much as I'd love to go through all 16 pages of this to see if my question was already answered (I went through 6, gimme a little credit here, right?), I am curious. I currently have a Core i5 4690k processor OC'd to 4.0 GHz and a GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP edition (not the Extreme one), and plan on getting a second one with a 4K monitor. Will my 750W PSU be able to hold its own, or will I have to upgrade some more to maybe an 850W or 900W as I am suspecting I may have to?