Two months ago I received and old CPU with some decent specs (for its time) and I decided to give a shot and do some upgrades. The specs are:
Asus p6t deluxe
Intel I7 920
12gb DDR3
Corsair C650M
For the GPU I decided to go with a 1070 and bought the FE. The problem is that with some games It gets some frame drops to 42fps very constantly. This GPU is supposed to run 1440p without problem. and I'm having this issues at 1080p... I went to Bestbuy and changed the GPU for a FTW and got exactly same results. (At least now is cooler). I have tried different ''solution'' like Deactivating Xbox dvr, downgrading / upgrading drivers and configuring these setup nvidia gave me:
Open "NVIDIA Control Panel" > "3D Settings" > "Manage 3D Settings" > "Global Settings"
• Power management model – prefer maximum performance
• Threaded optimization – off
• Triple buffering – off
• Vertical sync – off
• Maximum pre rendered frames – 3
This also did not work and I saw some people with similar problems... I still have the same issue on games such Batman AN, Assassins creed Unity, Assassin's creed Syndicate, or gta IV. The GPU is not OC, the CPU is. If you know what might be causing it please help!