Locating a possible weakpoint in my PC

[Number 29]

Hey all! So, I've been noticing some dips in performance on some more demanding and modern games such as the latest call of duty. My frames dip into very low numbers during cutscences only and other demanding multiplayer titles my frames sometimes drop a good amount, my current thoughts on what's failing is somewhere with my GPU obviously or my power supply not supplying enough power perhaps? Is that possible? I'll leave my current build below; any help is appreciated

 

BUILD:

CPU:
i7-4790k

 

CPU Cooler:
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

 

MOBO:
MSI Z97 Gaming-5

 

RAM:
16(4x4) gb DDR3 Kingston HyperX Fury Black

 

HDD:
1x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue

 

SSD:

1x 120gb Kingston SSD

1x Samsung 860 evo 500gb

 

GPU:
EVGA GTX 1070

 

CASE:
Fractal Design R4

 

PSU:
EVGA 600B

 

Headset:
Audio-Technica ATH-M50x

 

Keyboard:
Razer Blackwidow Chroma

 

Mic:
Blue Snowball Blackout

 

Mouse:
Razer Mamba Chroma TE

[Jurrunio]

check the temperatures

[Wh0_Am_1]

Do you have any programs running in the background? Like any Razer RGB programs or something? Because the only thing besides a poor thermal compound application that I can think of is: that the latest games have progressed to the point that they can demand everything that the quadcore processors of yester-years can provide, while they are still very capable with gaming due to modern optimizations for ever higher core counts, the settings that people are willing to run their games at has greatly increased, leaving little CPU time for bloat, background programs, and other windows operations. This leads to occasional frame drops as programs fight for valuable instructions.

[dizmo]

CPU temps; the 212 EVO isn't the greatest cooler if you have an OC.

You didn't list the wattage of your PSU, but I highly doubt that's the issue you're having.

 

[Number 29]

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

check the temperatures

CPU and GPU temps are fine.

[Number 29]

3 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

Do you have any programs running in the background? Like any Razer RGB programs or something? Because the only thing besides a poor thermal compound application that I can think of is: that the latest games have progressed to the point that they can demand everything that the quadcore processors of yester-years can provide, while they are still very capable with gaming due to modern optimizations for ever higher core counts, the settings that people are willing to run their games at has greatly increased, leaving little CPU time for bloat, background programs, and other windows operations. This leads to occasional frame drops as programs fight for valuable instructions.

I don't have much running the background, only discord and my razer synapse mostly unfortunately.

[Number 29]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

CPU temps; the 212 EVO isn't the greatest cooler if you have an OC.

You didn't list the wattage of your PSU, but I highly doubt that's the issue you're having.

 

No OC on this cpu. The PSU is a 600W.

[schwellmo92]

It could honestly be either the CPU or GPU, the best way to figure that out is to run a monitoring software in the background (even just Task Manager is fine) and then when you notice a dip swap to Task Manager and see if any of the following occurred:

• Was your total CPU utilisation near 100%? -> CPU bottleneck
• Was 1 thread on your CPU near 100%? -> CPU bottleneck
• Was your GPU near 100%? -> GPU bottleneck