CPU getting low wattage?

DarkerB · August 5, 2020

Hello there, So, recently i've been having this weird and extremely annoying problem. In light tasks my PC is great, but as soon as I power on any game of any decent graphic, am not playing latest titles, just some NBA 2K14, yes, 14, and GTA 5 with ocasional Tropico 6 as well. But my game is having FPS drops of huge amount for about 10 seconds every minute or so. Now i understand that is due to CPU overheating but my temperature apps are showing maxes of 255. I am a technical person myself and i know 255 is some weird showing of temp using max bit number, so obviously sensors are bad. But bad sensors aren't that uncommon, but the other piece of data software like HWinfo is telling me is that my 95 TDP FX 6300 is at max getting 50W while being utilized 100% even in game like 2k14 where my 8gb ram and r9 270x is getting used less than 50. Now, here are things that are narrowed down. I had decent power supply that was 2 years old, it was not of some brand but it was rated good, but i still switched to gold rated Cooler Master 500W. Everyone told me that perhaps it is trully cooling issue and i bought a case with hugely imroved space and airflow and installed many additional fans. Some said it might be CPU itself, but this 6300 is actually a CPU i bought not long ago second hand and i had this same issue on my old Phenom II X4 945. By my understanding, the only remaining component that could cause this is my 10 years old MSI 760GM-P21 motherboard, although physically looking ok, it might somehow not deliver CPU with enough power and thus overheating it? Is that possible? Nowhere on internet i found specifically this question. Thanks in advance.

Perrytheplatypus43 · August 6, 2020

What CPU are you currently using?

August 6, 2020

FX-6300 using 50w at load 100% + using or reading a 255c temp, perhaps use different software for reporting temps. Pretty easy to cool an FX-6300 at stock frequency, I come to wonder what the overclock is just as much curiosity lays with a full list of system specs. While I am uncertain of your FPS drop issue, I am certain the IPC of these processors are less than par, so just from that, the fps probably aren't very good from the get go. The MSI board you are using isnt exactly the greatest though. I'd probably not try an overclock past 4.6ghz if even that much, I'd suspect the board to take a shit. But no, not having enough power won't make a cpu over heat. The software you are using is probably just totally inaccurate. But then my end statements would conclude to upgrade the system if you can. A fresh new operating system and then you'll uh ave better gaming experiences. By my opinion only. With some additional information like symptoms, better software readings and maybe even some screen shots of that too, may be able to help somewhat, but there's no saving the low per core IPC FX processors have.

DarkerB · August 6, 2020

6 hours ago, Perrytheplatypus43 said:

What CPU are you currently using?

Well fx 6300 of course.

DarkerB · August 6, 2020

5 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

FX-6300 using 50w at load 100% + using or reading a 255c temp, perhaps use different software for reporting temps. Pretty easy to cool an FX-6300 at stock frequency, I come to wonder what the overclock is just as much curiosity lays with a full list of system specs. While I am uncertain of your FPS drop issue, I am certain the IPC of these processors are less than par, so just from that, the fps probably aren't very good from the get go. The MSI board you are using isnt exactly the greatest though. I'd probably not try an overclock past 4.6ghz if even that much, I'd suspect the board to take a shit. But no, not having enough power won't make a cpu over heat. The software you are using is probably just totally inaccurate. But then my end statements would conclude to upgrade the system if you can. A fresh new operating system and then you'll uh ave better gaming experiences. By my opinion only. With some additional information like symptoms, better software readings and maybe even some screen shots of that too, may be able to help somewhat, but there's no saving the low per core IPC FX processors have.

I forgot to mention, of course Windows reinstalls were done. Now, what you say about poor permormance of this CPU is true, but my friend, we are talking 2k14 and gta v... potato can run those. As for software, every software is reporting exactly same things. Litetally every. Tried like 7. And why are you mentioning overclocks? It is not overclocked and this board would definately not take any .

August 6, 2020

5 hours ago, DarkerB said:

I forgot to mention, of course Windows reinstalls were done. Now, what you say about poor permormance of this CPU is true, but my friend, we are talking 2k14 and gta v... potato can run those. As for software, every software is reporting exactly same things. Litetally every. Tried like 7. And why are you mentioning overclocks? It is not overclocked and this board would definately not take any .

I mentioned overclock because that's how you increase performance of that particular cpu, which btw I've had that exact model.

So if you think it's over heating, you'd address the cooling issue first.

And GTAV on PC can be pretty intense, it just depends on the graphics settings and resolution played at. My kids play on 4K and GTAV is no joke on 2700x and a RTX 2060.