CPU and GPU usage drops

[Exzact]

While I'm gaming every 10-15 minutes my CPU and GPU usage drops significantly. I also checked Ryzen Master and it shows that my CPU clock speed drops to 800MHz during this period.

I have tried running the following and nothing seems to help/find the issue:

• Running Memory Diagnostic
• Checking Thermals (nothing too high)
• Changed PSU
• Resat RAM
• Lowering GPU clock speed
• Installing latest drivers for GPU/Chipset/MoBo
• Plugging PC in else where to see it if was a faulty socket
• Reinstalled Windows
• Changing Power Options

 

None of these seem to help.

 

I recently built this PC and have been very busy so haven't been able to spend too much time trouble shooting.

 

My Current Specs are

• Ryzen 5 2600
• Asus Prime B450-Plus
• MSI Gaming X 1060 6GB
• 16GB HyperX Fury 2400MHz
• Corsair TX 750M

 

My Old Specs were

• Intel i5 4400
• Gigabyte MoBo (not 100% sure on model, Can find it out if necessary)
• 8GB Corsair Vengence (not 100% sure on speed, can find out if necessary)
• EVGA 500W Bronze
• MSI Gaming X 1060 6GB

 

I wasnt having the issue with the old PC but I don't think that helps much because everything was changed apart from Storage and GPU

 

Any help is much appreciated!

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, Exzact said:

While I'm gaming every 10-15 minutes my CPU and GPU usage drops significantly. I also checked Ryzen Master and it shows that my CPU clock speed drops to 800MHz during this period.

I have tried running the following and nothing seems to help/find the issue:

• Running Memory Diagnostic
• Checking Thermals (nothing too high)
• Changed PSU
• Resat RAM
• Lowering GPU clock speed
• Installing latest drivers for GPU/Chipset/MoBo
• Plugging PC in else where to see it if was a faulty socket

 

None of these seem to help.

 

I recently built this PC and have been very busy so haven't been able to spend too much time trouble shooting.

 

My Current Specs are

• Ryzen 5 2600
• Asus Prime B450-Plus
• MSI Gaming X 1060 6GB
• 16GB HyperX Fury 2400MHz
• Corsair TX 750M

 

My Old Specs were

• Intel i5 4400
• Gigabyte MoBo (not 100% sure on model, Can find it out if necessary)
• 8GB Corsair Vengence (not 100% sure on speed, can find out if necessary)
• EVGA 500W Bronze
• MSI Gaming X 1060 6GB

 

I wasnt having the issue with the old PC but I don't think that helps much because everything was changed apart from Storage and GPU

 

Any help is much appreciated!

Did you reinstall windows after moving systems?

[Exzact]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Did you reinstall windows after moving systems?

No I didn't, I thought about it but i have other things on the SSD windows is installed on.

I'm aware this is probably a dumb question but can i reinstall windows without wiping the entire drive?

[jaslion]

Just now, Exzact said:

No I didn't, I thought about it but i have other things on the SSD windows is installed on.

I'm aware this is probably a dumb question but can i reinstall windows without wiping the entire drive?

When reinstalling windows you have to reinstall all your programs anyways so no point in trying to keep them.

[Exzact]

Just now, jaslion said:

When reinstalling windows you have to reinstall all your programs anyways so no point in trying to keep them.

Even all my games or only the programs on the same SSD

 

For reference i have an SSD with windows and a few games and programs like steam etc, a HDD with all my documents and majority of games, and a second SSD with some more games on. If possible I wouldn't want to reinstall everything....

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, Exzact said:

Even all my games or only the programs on the same SSD

 

For reference i have an SSD with windows and a few games and programs like steam etc, a HDD with all my documents and majority of games, and a second SSD with some more games on. If possible I wouldn't want to reinstall everything....

Steam can rediscover the games if you point it to where they are installed. All programs and data that are on the windows ssd are lost. When reinstalling windows I do advice you to unplug any drives you aren't using to avoid making a mistake and formating the wrong drive.

[Exzact]

Just now, jaslion said:

Steam can rediscover the games if you point it to where they are installed. All programs and data that are on the windows ssd are lost. When reinstalling windows I do advice you to unplug any drives you aren't using to avoid making a mistake and formating the wrong drive.

Okay, I'll give that ago now and see what happens. Thanks!

[Exzact]

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

Steam can rediscover the games if you point it to where they are installed. All programs and data that are on the windows ssd are lost. When reinstalling windows I do advice you to unplug any drives you aren't using to avoid making a mistake and formating the wrong drive.

After reinstalling windows and getting everything set up the issue is still occuring.

[i_is_colours]

You say the useage drops, but what effect is this having on gameplay? Is it all games uniformly? When I play gta 5 my 1070 runs at 800 mhz and 40% useage but it's because I have vsync on so it doesn't need the extra power.

 

 

[Exzact]

4 minutes ago, i_is_colours said:

You say the useage drops, but what effect is this having on gameplay? Is it all games uniformly? When I play gta 5 my 1070 runs at 800 mhz and 40% useage but it's because I have vsync on so it doesn't need the extra power.

 

 

I should clarify I'm only aware of CPU clock speed dropping but both CPU and GPU usage drops. It causes Fps drops in all games and inputs from mouse and keyboard are delayed due to low clock speed. PUBG seems to be the most frequent but it happens in CS, Modern Warfare and Dragonball FighterZ 

 

[i_is_colours]

4 minutes ago, Exzact said:

Fps drops in all games and inputs from mouse and keyboard are delayed due to low clock speed. PUBG seems to be the most frequent but it happens in CS, Modern Warfare and Dragonball FighterZ 

 

In your list of troubleshooting steps, I don't see any mention of checking the power & sleep settings of windows. Have you addressed whether the pc is operating in a low power or balanced power preset? 

[Exzact]

Just now, i_is_colours said:

In your list of troubleshooting steps, I don't see any mention of checking the power & sleep settings of windows. Have you addressed whether the pc is operating in a low power or balanced power preset? 

Yes I have. I've tried High Performance, Balanced, and AMD Ryzen Optimizied.

[i_is_colours]

Just now, Exzact said:

Yes I have. I've tried High Performance, Balanced, and AMD Ryzen Optimizied.

Have you tried using ryzen master and enabling a fixed clock profile?

[Exzact]

1 minute ago, i_is_colours said:

Have you tried using ryzen master and enabling a fixed clock profile?

Not 100% sure how to do that but I'll look it up quick and have a look and let you know

[Skater6453]

I’m not sure if this applies to Ryzen 2000 series but I was having a problem with Ryzen 3000 series clock speed through Ryzen master.It would keep cycling cores to either sleep or super low clock speeds and wouldn’t stay at it’s manual overclock speed and pbo was basically broken and barley even reaching base speeds even on single core benches.So I ditched Ryzen master and just set everything through bios and using cpuz made sure everything was clocked and voltage and everything was right and haven’t had a problem since.All settings stuck through bios.Also Ryzen master wasn’t refreshing fast enough to read cores and temps accurately as well I also found out late after using msi afterburner as a monitor instead.So try setting with bios an overclock and then use afterburner to monitor and see if it still is doing it.

[Exzact]

On 1/8/2020 at 12:36 AM, i_is_colours said:

Have you tried using ryzen master and enabling a fixed clock profile?

Unfortunately this hasnt fixed the issue, it made it less frequent but it still happens, except the clock speed wont drop now but frame rates still drop with usage

[Exzact]

On 1/8/2020 at 1:04 AM, Skater6453 said:

I’m not sure if this applies to Ryzen 2000 series but I was having a problem with Ryzen 3000 series clock speed through Ryzen master.It would keep cycling cores to either sleep or super low clock speeds and wouldn’t stay at it’s manual overclock speed and pbo was basically broken and barley even reaching base speeds even on single core benches.So I ditched Ryzen master and just set everything through bios and using cpuz made sure everything was clocked and voltage and everything was right and haven’t had a problem since.All settings stuck through bios.Also Ryzen master wasn’t refreshing fast enough to read cores and temps accurately as well I also found out late after using msi afterburner as a monitor instead.So try setting with bios an overclock and then use afterburner to monitor and see if it still is doing it.

Im not overclocking at all its just the usage drops while playing games.

[i_is_colours]

Perhaps it is a power issue after all. I mean, that GPU sips power, but they do require a lot of power in a shorter amount of time for their more sophisticated boost profiles. Maybe fire up afterburner and downclock the gpu by reducing it's power limit to 75% and test with a benchmark or a game. 

 

I'm spitballing here my dude.

[Exzact]

I've been swamped with work the last few weeks so haven't been able to try and fix this since my last post. Today i ran 3d mark and this is what the graph looks like. This usage spiking is what i was trying to describe happens in games

Maybe I could do with better cooling but surely 75 Degrees shouldnt hit that that much?

 

Edit: I ran this benchmark with 80% power usage on my GPU also during the graphics tests, task manager never reported anything higher than like 15% usage on both CPU and GPU