What is causing excessive FPS drops?

[Elias-gaming]

Hello, I've been getting a lot of FPS drops for the last month. Some people told me that it's a RAM problem and that I need to get more ram. My PC is 1.5 years old and here are the specs:

i5-8600k

GTX 1060 6GB

8GB of ddr4 memory

Someone help me and tell me what can cause fps drops...

[Mister Woof]

Single channel ram got my money 

[Zando_]

11 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

Single channel ram got my money 

^^^ Yeaaaah if you're running 1x8GB stick of DDR4, you're just dumping hurty juice into your performance numbers. Dual channel makes a solid difference, faster RAM usually helps too. 

If you run a lot of stuff in the background you'll get fps drops in newer titles due to that being a 6c/6t CPU as well. 

[Letgomyleghoe]

15 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

Single channel ram got my money 

alot of "tech" youtubers make these verge like builds and recommend single Chanel memory because its cheaper but they dont realize that it cuts bandwidth because they dont know what theyre doing

i remember talking to my cousin when he just started getting into pc gaming and he watched a guide that said single channel memory was faster

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

^^^ Yeaaaah if you're running 1x8GB stick of DDR4, you're just dumping hurty juice into your performance numbers. Dual channel makes a solid difference, faster RAM usually helps too. 

If you run a lot of stuff in the background you'll get fps drops in newer titles due to that being a 6c/6t CPU as well. 

yup no hyperthreading is big oof with modern programs

[Mister Woof]

1 minute ago, scuff gang said:

alot of "tech" youtubers make these verge like builds and recommend single Chanel memory because its cheaper but they dont realize that it cuts bandwidth because they dont know what theyre doing

I can sorta see their perspective, especially on cheaper motherboards with only 2 dimms so you don't have to throw out a 2x4 kit when you upgrade. Although they should probably make it clear you're making a sacrifice in the short term until you can afford another stick.

[Elias-gaming]

Guys calm down, I have a dual channel with 2x4GB not 1x8GB

Mobo: Asus prime h310m-k (if that helps)

[Stu_Bear]

how full is your hdd?  defragged it lately?  reinstall windows lately?

[trevb0t]

The 8600K isn't as infamous as say the 6600K, but there are typically some 1% low issues with the i5 lineup in general.

I'm not sure it applies as heavily since your unit is 6 cores. 

 

Do you run Afterburner?

Look at those low moments and see what your RAM usage is. 8GB isn't necessarily too little, but it's not a lot. 

Demanding games can use 10-11GB easily under load.

[Stu_Bear]

can you monitor ram usage as you play the game?  Is it on the high end?  Might be getting into swapping issues...

[Elias-gaming]

Can the drives affect FPS drops? Don't think so but my HDD is 50% full (1TB left) and ssd has 25gb left and I just installed a brand new ssd today.

[Elias-gaming]

1 minute ago, Stu_Bear said:

can you monitor ram usage as you play the game?  Is it on the high end?  Might be getting into swapping issues...

My memory usage and cpu usage go up to 90-95% while gaming, and for some reason gpu usage stays at 20-30%

[Stu_Bear]

sounds like you got a bottleneck...not sure why it's only appeared in the past month...odd indeed.  You have any background tasks running?  Installed new music apps or anything?  Have you tried killing everything within reason in task manager before starting the game?

[Stu_Bear]

If all else fails...just back everything up...format your OS drive...reinstall OS and apps...give it a spin and see what happens.

[Elias-gaming]

I only run Discord and Spotify in the background. Before, I used to run Chrome as well with no issues or lag

[Mira Yurizaki]

23 minutes ago, Elias-gaming said:

My memory usage and cpu usage go up to 90-95% while gaming, and for some reason gpu usage stays at 20-30%

If the memory usage is going up to 95%, this is probably your issue. You're running out of memory and the system has to page stuff in and out to storage, which can cause massive hiccups.

[Mister Woof]

I found this interesting

 

Seems Intel doesn't care much about memory speeds, but definitely does care about dual channel