Graphics card dips

[Aaron7323]

Good day forum. So recently I upgraded my GPU to an Asus Dual series OC GTX 1070. At the same time I upgraded my PSU to an ANTEC EAG550 80plus gold 550W psu. Since upgrading when I play games (any games) the game will freeze. At this moment I monitored GPU usage and it drops to 0% usage while the game freezes for about 10 seconds then all of a sudden jumps back and everything is back to normal. I tried updating GPU drivers, MOBO drivers, repairing games. What else could be the issue here? I never had this problem before when I had a gtx 970. The rest of my system specs are as follows:

- Intel i7 4790

- 16gb hyper x ddr3 ram

- asrock z97 anniversary

- kingston a400 480gb SSD

- seagate 3tb HDD

- windows 10 64 bit

Any help is appreciated, thanks forum

 

[Slamburger]

Could be a CPU bottleneck. Does the whole system lock up or just the game? Try monitoring your CPU usage also.

[Aaron7323]

21 minutes ago, Slamburger said:

Could be a CPU bottleneck. Does the whole system lock up or just the game? Try monitoring your CPU usage also.

CPU doesnt bottleneck, CPU usage stays constant throughout the lag spikes. Only the GPU drops.

[Slamburger]

I would try the old PSU to rule that out as it is the only other thing you upgraded. That is such a strange issue.

[Aaron7323]

59 minutes ago, Slamburger said:

I would try the old PSU to rule that out as it is the only other thing you upgraded. That is such a strange issue.

i already sold it but a friend of mine has a different PSU and his 1070 runs fine so Ill pop it in his PC and see if thats the issue.

[Slamburger]

2 hours ago, Aaron7323 said:

i already sold it but a friend of mine has a different PSU and his 1070 runs fine so Ill pop it in his PC and see if thats the issue.

Awesome, I hope that will give some insight.