radrice

I've made a few posts about this problem I've been having, and only now have I had any real progress in figuring in out, though not in the way I expected. Basically to sum up what already happened, I started getting frame drops in a lot of games ever since I installed new hardware not long ago. I tried a bunch of stuff that never ended up fixing anything. Eventually I brought it over to a friend's house where it seemed like we fixed it (the monitor refresh rate was set too low), but it came back pretty soon when I brought it back home. I brought it back to his house later on, though, and without changing anything it was working fine. I'm no expert but it seems like there's a couple factors to this: I'm using a pretty old PSU with a lot of newer hardware There's a ton more power consumption happening in the room my setup is in relative to the other house I was at I'm in the market for a new power supply anyway, but I wanted to see if anyone more experienced knows if it has more to do with that or the power outlets I'm using. They don't seem to have any problems otherwise, so I'm hoping they aren't to blame considering how much more complicated that would potentially be.

For a while I was getting some random fps drops in games which normally run fine, which I posted about here. Eventually I noticed that (since I reinstalled windows) my monitor was set to 60Hz instead of 144, which seemed to fix it, but now a few days later the problem has come up again. I tried a bunch of things before checking something as simple as the refresh rate, but now that the problem doesn't seem to have to do with that I'm totally lost as to any possible solution. Here's a link to a benchmark I did the first time this problem started happening: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14993968 In terms of other stuff, CPU temperatures have been fine, both of my hard drives are in good health, and my drivers are up to date and I haven't had any issues with my gpu. Like I said, it seems like the issue originally came from my monitor's refresh rate, so I really don't know what would be causing it this time around.

Sorry about the late reply, just got home from work. Anyway, I updated everything needed from Driver Booster and installed the Chipset driver and updated the SSD firmware, but I'm still seeing the same problem. Hard Disk Sentinel says both drives are at 100% for performance and health. I tried disabling hibernation as well which also had no effect.

GTX 1070 (Founder's edition if that makes any difference)

Hi, About a week ago I installed a new i7 8700K in my PC along with a Corsair liquid cooler and a Gigabyte motherboard, which replaced the Ryzen 5 1500X and older Gigabyte AM4 mobo I had; about a day after I ended up reinstalling Windows 10 as well. Games overall run a lot better than they did on the old hardware, but for a handful of them I've been getting random framerate stuttering, which never happened for any of them before I upgraded. A good example is the Resident Evil 2 remake, which will normally sit around 70-80 FPS but will randomly drop to around 20 (according to Steam's FPS counter) for a second or two at a time. Although this hasn't happened on every game I've tried, it's ranged from newer, more high demand games as mentioned above to a 2D sprite based shooter which makes it a lot harder for me to find any correlation. For all the games I've tried, in-game graphics settings were set to default according to system specs, aside from some minor tweaking, and I'm playing them on an Acer XB271HU with Gsync on. I've spent the last week looking through a bunch of forums and it seems like a lot of people have had the same sort of issue on a higher-end rig like this, but none of the proposed solutions I've seen have worked for me. So far I've tried: Reinstalling graphics drivers Updating the BIOS Checking on connections in the PC, swapping out some sata cables Changing the placement of the ram (I figured this wouldn't do anything but I was desperate) Messing with some Windows defender settings But nothing has worked out. At this point I almost feel like I'm missing something obvious. Here's a benchmark I did last night and attached are my CPU temps while the RE2 remake was running (cooler fans and pump were all at their highest setting): https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14993968 (Also before I forget, since it doesn't mention it in the benchmark, my PSU is a Corsair CX600M.)