JWY23

Yes I use the recommended settings from Nvidia, and as far as drivers go, I always update my GPU driver via Nvidia experience, and I use IOBit Driver Booster 7 for general programme drivers

So I currently running these settings within the "Graphics Menu" Resolution = 1920x1080 Refresh RAte = 144hz Auto Aspect Ratio V-Sync = Disabled Frame rate = I have set a custom frame rate 144 Nvidia Highlight = Disabled Texture Resolution = Normal texture Filter Anisotropic = Normal Particle Quality = Low Tessellation = Disabled Shadows = Normal DirextX Raytracing = Disabled Anti-Aliasing = Filmic SMAA T2X These Settings use 2302mgb/8088mgb of VRAM

Hi Guys, Hopefully someone can help me out! I made my PC within my budget and I thought what I made was quite good. I have a Intel i5-8500 CPU and Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU. I have a ASUS Prime B360-plus motherboard with 16gb of RAM. I have a Seasonic Focus+Gold 550W PSU and I am running 3 140mm coolings and 1 120mm on my cpu cooler. I first noticed my issue when playing COD, my friends in Discord couldn't hear what I was saying, BUT if I tabbed out of COD they could hear me fine. It was as if my CPU couldn't cope with running COD and Discord at the time (so I thought). I started to monitor my CPU and GPU output using MSI afterburner and I was very suprised to see both pegged above 95% whilst playing the game. I thought that my build would be able to happily play COD on reasonable settings. When playing COD I get around 100fps, and the game doesn't necessarily run bad (unless it's in the menus which are bad apparently). I have a BenQ 17LCD 144hz display. I have tried cleaning my PC with various file cleaners, but I am stumped as to what is wrong with my CPU and GPU output being so high. I'm not very clued up into code and the basics of softare/hardware, so go easy on me! Can anyone suggest anything to get my outputs lower without upgrading ? Thank you guys! Josh