FPS Issues in games

[Stefan Payne]

1 minute ago, Rafovafo said:

Alright I'll attempt to do that and let you know what happens

Yeah, its sadly a very common Problem with AMD FX Series CPUs and cheap Motherboards...

Using Top Blow Cooler (ie Noctua NH-L12, NH-C14) can solve the drops in some cases or at least reduce it.

[Rafovafo]

12 minutes ago, Strike105X said:

You could get a set of gpu vrm heat sinks, something similar to this:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Enzotech-MOS-C10-Forged-Copper-Heatsinks/dp/B004CL89D8

 

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32905584107.html?trace=wwwdetail2mobilesitedetail&productId=32905584107&productSubject=Free-shipping-50PCS-Aluminum-Cooling-Heat-sink-Mos-Chip-CPU-GPU-VGA-RAM-LED-IC&gps-id=platformRecommendH5&scm=1007.18499.102167.0&scm_id=1007.18499.102167.0&scm-url=1007.18499.102167.0&pvid=401deb77-6545-4d49-88c4-b1bb722a575d&_t=gps-id:platformRecommendH5,scm-url:1007.18499.102167.0,pvid:401deb77-6545-4d49-88c4-b1bb722a575d&spm=a2g0n.detail-amp.moretolove.32905584107&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=9109amp-qSYu9N7QlmKxpfvh17eN0Q1546174300854

 

Basically either some vga ram or vrm heat sinks, either copper or aluminium, its how i cooled an older mobo's vrm's as well, back when i was pushing it by overclocking an triple to quad unlocked cpu, they did a fairly nice job, just make sure they come with adhesive applied.

 

Also here is an idea of putting a cooler over the vrm with double sided tape, which i used for extra cooling to overclock an fx chip:

 

https://m.imgur.com/a/pIQ3m

 

Sorry for the dumb question,but what here exactly is the VRM?

[Rafovafo]

11 minutes ago, Strike105X said:

I don't have access to a pc right now so I can't unfortunately draw it for you so let me roughly explain:

 

In your image between the cpu cooler and the fan at the back of the case, you see the larger dark grey square/cubic components on the mobo right? Those are called chockers, and in between those chockers are tiny chips, those are called mosfets, and at the sides of each chocker there's a cylindrical component, that's a solid state capacitor. The Chockers, mosfets and capacitators make up the VRM (Voltage Regulator Module). Now what you need to cool are the mosfets, that's where you'd have to place those heatsinks on.

Alright thanks!

[SkilledRebuilds]

This is actually common as hell on some boards without adequate airflow to that area (esp AIO watercooling without fans near it)

Alas.. placing a fan directly over that area,.. can reduce the VRM temps

Because they have a temp limit too, uncontrollable, 60-65*c on some boards! Way low IMO

So people strap a fan to the area, dropping overall VRM temps, to have throttling of CPU clockspeeds (loaded VRM sensor will drop CPU to 1.5Ghz to recover VRM load temps)

 

Usually only found when overclocking hard though...ALSO... begs the question below...

To be fair, this never happened before, if VRMS are an issue now, why were they not before?

 

The fan setups are all the same likely... Airflow hasnt changed, VRMs should be the same load...

 

[Rafovafo]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

This is actually common as hell on some boards without adequate airflow to that area (esp AIO watercooling without fans near it)

But yeah, placing a fan directly over that area,.. can reduce the VRM temps (Because they have a temp limit too, uncontrollable, 60-65*c on some boards! Way low IMO)
So people strap a fan to the area, dropping overall VRM temps, to have throttling of CPU clockspeeds (loaded VRM sensor will drop CPU to 1.5Ghz to recover VRM load temps)

 

Usually only found when overclocking hard though...ALSO... begs the question below...

To be fair, this never happened before, if VRMS are an issue now, why were they not before?

Yeah the guy that built the SSD and Cooler in said that it is a possibility, a pretty high one that is caused by these older motherboards which struggle to support chips with over 4 cores. It will take a couple of days for him to come but I am sure that this will fix my issues, thanks everyone for the help. Oh yeah, I have no idea why it is happening now, CPU hasn't been touched besides the cooler.

[Stefan Payne]

10 hours ago, Rafovafo said:

Oh yeah, I have no idea why it is happening now, CPU hasn't been touched besides the cooler.

Yes, wich is exactly what I said
The VRM are getting hot because VRM doesn't get airflow.

 

Maybe you can rectify it with a piece of paper??

15 hours ago, Rafovafo said:

Sorry for the dumb question,but what here exactly is the VRM?

Its those black things with the silvery things coming out of it, right next to the grey boxes between I/O and CPU.

Essentially everything that is above the thing that's labeled "Front USB". 

You need to get some air over it.

What you could do is put a piece of paper in the cooler and cut it, so that it has a slight curve so that the air is directed directly to that area.

 

 

That might look something like that:

[Rafovafo]

6 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Yes, wich is exactly what I said
The VRM are getting hot because VRM doesn't get airflow.

 

Maybe you can rectify it with a piece of paper??

Its those black things with the silvery things coming out of it, right next to the grey boxes between I/O and CPU.

Essentially everything that is above the thing that's labeled "Front USB". 

You need to get some air over it.

What you could do is put a piece of paper in the cooler and cut it, so that it has a slight curve so that the air is directed directly to that area.

 

 

That might look something like that:

Alright will try.

[Rafovafo]

Alright so it turns out it has nothing to do with the VRM, a professional in AMD will take a deeper look into my hardware and we'll see. Thanks for all the suggestions though.

[Paul Rudd]

On 12/29/2018 at 3:51 PM, Rafovafo said:

I also asked him to reinstall Windows for me into the SSD, so he did.

It's very possible he reset a lot of things back to default. Check for things that you changed throughout the years that got you to the fps you are wanting to get back to.

 

Some examples are to check to see if your GPU is set to Maximum Performance in your NVidia control panel. Check your minimum and maximum processor states in your power plan. Check your NVidia control panel in general to see if everything is set back to default. If it is back to default, you're gonna have to set it back to where you had everything. The driver you have installed now could also be different than the one you were using before.

 

There's also a chance this person reset your BIOS. This might cause issues like this if you possibly had anything overclocked before.