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Sorry for the inactivity, we solved the issue. Thx anyway

He got the laptop just recently. The other game he plays is GTA Online. FPS drops in GTA happen less frequently and they are less noticeable since the average fps is lower than in CS:GO.

Hello! My friend has a Lenovo Ideapad 330s with an intel i5-8250U, 20gb of ram and a radeon 535 gpu. When he plays csgo (on various resolutions), he gets random fps drops constantly. Laptop doesn't have any trouble achieving around 100fps and then it drops to around 20-30 fps for no reason. It doesn't overheat and it's obviously plugged in the wall but when the fps drops it feels like it's thermal throttling (i've experienced that on my laptop so I know what it feels like). When fps drops occur, the gpu utilization drops to some very low percentages. As far as my knowledge goes about power settings in windows, everything is set up so the laptop can use maximum power when plugged in i.e. everything is set to performance. I'm not really sure if we have to tweak something in csgo, radeon software, bios or intel gpu software (if it interferes with the amd gpu utilization). Laptop can clearly handle some very solid fps figures without overheating or something so idk whats causing the issue... please help we're out of ideas. Btw there isn't any background software using up the resources and the cpu also doesn't overheat, it doesn't have any problems turboing to higher frequencies. Thanks in advance!

That's what I kinda thought even though I don't have that much knowledge about RAM. The only reason I got worried is because I've experienced a nice performance boost when I went from single channel to dual channel so I thought some of that performance is still left on the table because of 1Rx8-1Rx16 mix. Thanks a lot.

Hi, I watched the video about RAM banks and it got me worried because I built my PC while I was still in high school (2017 i think) and I tried to get the cheapest stuff possible.. Anyways, my configuration is: CPU: i3-7100 RAM: 2133mhz 16GB (2x8GBs) GPU: GTX 1060 3GB It was with 8GBs of ram at first but I upgraded after some time. So, after I watched the video I checked my RAM sticks and it turns out one of them is a 1Rx16 module while the other one is 1Rx8. Both of them are 2133MHz sticks and they work in dual-channel. My question is: Is the 1Rx16 module slowing down the other one and if so, by how much? I know these are "only 2133mhz rams" and that my i3-7100 is probably a bit of a bottleneck for 1060 but it is what it is. It was the best I could do at the time. Considering all of that, if the 1Rx16 module is slowing down the 1Rx8 module (I think it is), is the performance hit more pronounced because of the already existing CPU bottleneck? I know this is a very specific question and it probably can't be answered easily but yeah.. that's why I'm here. When the semester ends and I get back home, I'll try to get another 1Rx8 module from some of my friends and do some testing to see what is the difference, but I'd like to know what kind of results should I expect because this got me actually worried. Thanks

My temps are ok, cpu and gpu don't go above 70-75°C. I've swapped my ram sticks, tried different slots, 8gb and 16gb combinations. Second ram slot was kinda suspicious but after further testing I noticed that 8gb configuration is also freezing sometimes, no matter which slot. So it's probably a cpu bottleneck after all. This topic can be locked, thx anyway.

As I said originally, my gpu driver is up to date

Hello. AC Odyssey started freezing for a second or two randomly after I upgraded my ram. PC specs: Asus h-110m, i3 7100, 16gb of ram (2x8gb @ 2133mhz), gtx 1060 3gb. I know its not the best pc for this game and I know 6gb 1060 would have been the better option but this was the best I could do as a high school student in 2017 during the cryptomining apocalypse when gpu prices skyrocketed. Anyway, I played this game right after it got released in 2018 and after finding a nice sweetspot in graphics settings the game was working fine with 60fps in open areas and with minimum fps around high 30s / low 40s in crowded areas like Athens. Some very rare, hardly noticeable stutters were present but it wasn't an issue for me. That was with 8 gigs of ram. Four months ago I added another 8gigs of ram. Fps got noticeably higher and I closed the game since I didn't play it much. Today I decided to revisit the game and I've noticed random freezes (1 to 2 seconds). The longer I play they seem to happen less frequently. I defraged my hdd (since the game was installed for a very long time) but it didn't change anything. Then I got an idea and removed one ram stick. Playing with 8gb of ram again made my fps drop a little bit but these one to two second freezes disappeared (very rare small stutters were present like before when i played with 8gb of ram). So, 16gb of ram in dual channel increased my fps and removed rare small stutters but the game started freezing randomly. Why is that? Btw I disabled windows full screen optimisation (recommended by a lot of people), gpu drivers are up to date, I have nothing running in the background and etc. These freezes aren't very frequent, they happen every few minutes and they happen less often the longer I play. I can live with it but I'd like to fix it if possible. Also, the ram upgrade didn't make any problems in other games and software, including AC Origins which is very similar to Odyssey. The older ram stick is Samsung 8gb module @ 2133mhz. The new one is made by Kingston but the specs are the same. So, different manufacturers could be the issue but I highly doubt it since they are pretty much the same modules and basically everything else is working perfectly fine except AC Odyssey. I didn't want to write a very long post but I'd like to give you as much info as possible. Thx in advance

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When will budget 300 series motherboards come out? It makes no sense to buy a pretty expensive z370 for i3-8100.. We need something like h110m ( skylake and kabylake budget mobos )..