Hey guys, I'm new here. Hoping anyone here can help me out with my issue, or at least explain what is going wrong.
So about a week ago I purchased an RTX 2070 Super. Excited to play games at higher FPS and better settings I came across a bit of a speedbump.
It turns out about 10 to 20 minutes into a session (usually graphically intensive games. Think Modern Warfare, Forza Horizon 4, Death Stranding.) my CPU will suddenly spike in usage and start to underclock itself, and then reset itself back to normal speeds. (From around 4400MHz down to 800MHz and back up) Causing heavy frame rate drops for a couple of seconds.
Things I've tried to do in order to combat this:
Re-applied thermal paste
Deleted, and reinstalled graphical drivers
Bought a new cooler thinking the old one simply couldn't keep up anymore
Lowered game settings
None of these things seemingly helped me fix the issue...
My specs (Taken from Speccy):
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 7700K @ 4.20GHz
Kaby Lake 14nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. H110M-S2PV-CF (U3E1)
Graphics
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Gigabyte)
Storage
465GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 (SATA )
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 (SATA )
465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD))
I was using a GTX 1060 before getting a new GPU.
I have attached screenshots of HWMonitor as extra information. If there is anything else you'd like to see/know let me know and I'll send that too.