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Beet
By Beet
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I'm in the market to get a new cpu but I have a question relating to it . I'm using an intel core i5 6400 2.7GHz quadcore and my cpu is bottle-necking terribly . I see all cores jump to 100% usage just gaming on the lowest setting possible and even stay at a state of low performance at 10 FPS or even locking up and having a total freeze of FPS for a few seconds to just got right back to having another freeze of FPS all the while staying at 100% usage on all cores [I'm also on a GTX 1050TI overclocked and there seems to be no problem with the card in the slightest] my motherboard is a asus z170-e and looking to find out if I can support a 8th gen processor or if there might be some sort of underlying issue i'm not aware or that might fix the issue [the games I play are Destiny 2, Diablo 3, Division, Witcher 3, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Overwatch.] I notice the issue straight away with The Division, Diablo 3 and Wildlands 

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nah z170 is locked away from 8th and 9th gen and tops at 4 cores. Even then don't bother with this platform, upgrades that gives noticeable performance jump (the 4 core 8 thread i7s) need to cost below $120 to make sense which is rarely the case.

 

What you can try though is your memory, since it's still in the era of DDR4. How much RAM do you have?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

nah z170 is locked away from 8th and 9th gen and tops at 4 cores. Even then don't bother with this platform, upgrades that gives noticeable performance jump (the 4 core 8 thread i7s) need to cost below $120 to make sense which is rarely the case.

 

What you can try though is your memory, since it's still in the era of DDR4. How much RAM do you have?

Agreed. Skylake and Skylake + (6th and 7th gen) aren't old enough to be worth upgrading. The prices are still too high. 

 

I do find it odd that the OP says he has DDR3 though. Possibly super old mobo and DDR3L? 

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6 minutes ago, Beet said:

I have 8GB of DDR3

 

too bad, prepare for $400 upgrade makes more sense (cost taking US standard)

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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I've had my desktop for 2 years now and never had this issue before, it's only after happening in the past 2-3 weeks 

 

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well in that case, your biting the wrong leg

look at updating graphic drivers ? reinstall the game ? reinstall windows, eek !

more ram would help, like 2x 8

& its ddr4

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i've done a full DDU of graphics drivers and still same issue including reinstalling most games 

but i'll give reinstalling windows and i'll look into more better ram , Thank you all 

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