CPU around 100% when gaming

[xFireLegendx138]

So recently I've experienced with nearly all of my games my cpu (Ryzen 3 3200g) has been at 100% nearly all game and my fps is dropping dramatically! Now I don't know if I should get myself a new cpu as it is really expensive right now. I only have my pc on AMD Ryzen Balanced mode not high performance. Should I swap to high performance or do I need to do something else? Please help!
Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 3 3200g
Motherboard: A320M-K ASUS 

GPU: RX 580 8GB 

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance x2 3000MHz 

PSU: ROG STRIX 750W GOLD PLATED
HDD: 1TB Barracuda  

[Mister Woof]

What games? 3200g is a 4/4 chip. Being at 100% in new games is not uncommon.

[xFireLegendx138]

Just now, Mister Woof said:

What games? 3200g is a 4/4 chip. Being at 100% in new games is not uncommon.

Fortnite, Minecraft nearly everything I play

[Mister Woof]

What's your idle cpu usage? do you have a lot of stuff going on? Are your memory sticks int he right slots (dual channel)?

[xFireLegendx138]

Just now, Mister Woof said:

What's your idle cpu usage? do you have a lot of stuff going on? Are your memory sticks int he right slots (dual channel)?

Idling around 15% and I've only got two sticks in the motherboard - yes dual channel

[-rascal-]

20 minutes ago, xFireLegendx138 said:

So recently I've experienced with nearly all of my games my cpu (Ryzen 3 3200g) has been at 100% nearly all game and my fps is dropping dramatically! Now I don't know if I should get myself a new cpu as it is really expensive right now. I only have my pc on AMD Ryzen Balanced mode not high performance. Should I swap to high performance or do I need to do something else? Please help!
Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 3 3200g
Motherboard: A320M-K ASUS 

GPU: RX 580 8GB 

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance x2 3000MHz 

PSU: ROG STRIX 750W GOLD PLATED
HDD: 1TB Barracuda  

 

You have your monitor plugged into the back of your RX-580, and NOT to the back of the motherboard, correct?

 

Is your RAM running at the rated DDR4-3000 MHz?

I.e. do you have XMP / DOCP enabled?

[xFireLegendx138]

Just now, -rascal- said:

 

You have your monitor plugged into the back of your RX-580, and NOT to the back of the motherboard, correct?

 

Is your RAM running at the rated DDR4-3000 MHz?

I.e. do you have XMP / DOCP enabled?

Yes all of those things but what is XMP or DOCP?

[YoungBlade]

Are you running a hard drive on that system instead of an SSD? That is going to really hurt performance in single-player Minecraft as the game spends a lot of time reading and writing data when chunks load in and out. Back in my HDD days, I used to store Minecraft world files on a second HDD separate from my OS drive, and that massively improved performance when traveling, as the OS wasn't fighting with the game to use the same drive.

 

If you're playing multiplayer Minecraft, it's less of an issue, but then the game will become more CPU intensive as there are other players in the environment.

 

Either way, the best way I've found to improve performance in Minecraft when CPU limited is to reduce the render distance.

[emosun]

Check the cpu temp. If the cpu is thermal throttling then it reduces its overall capacity to reduce temps which would yeild 100% usage in low end tasks.

[xFireLegendx138]

12 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Are you running a hard drive on that system instead of an SSD? That is going to really hurt performance in single-player Minecraft as the game spends a lot of time reading and writing data when chunks load in and out. Back in my HDD days, I used to store Minecraft world files on a second HDD separate from my OS drive, and that massively improved performance when traveling, as the OS wasn't fighting with the game to use the same drive.

 

If you're playing multiplayer Minecraft, it's less of an issue, but then the game will become more CPU intensive as there are other players in the environment.

 

Either way, the best way I've found to improve performance in Minecraft when CPU limited is to reduce the render distance.

Ahhh alright I'll try experimenting with that because it's up to 24 chunks atm

[xFireLegendx138]

59 minutes ago, emosun said:

Check the cpu temp. If the cpu is thermal throttling then it reduces its overall capacity to reduce temps which would yeild 100% usage in low end tasks.

Only 65 degrees

[-rascal-]

2 hours ago, xFireLegendx138 said:

Yes all of those things but what is XMP or DOCP?

 

XMP = eXtreme Memory Profile

ASUS usually refers this as DOCP on their AMD motherboards; DOCP = DRAM OverClock Profile

 

You can run CPU-Z and check the 'Memory' tab.

3000 MHz should read as ~1500 MHz.

While DDR4 memory JEDEC default (XMP or DOCP disabled) is 2133 MHz should read ~1067 MHz.

 

 

Example here, my workstation at work here is running DDR4-2400 MHz memory, so it reads ~1200 MHz.

[xFireLegendx138]

18 hours ago, -rascal- said:

 

XMP = eXtreme Memory Profile

ASUS usually refers this as DOCP on their AMD motherboards; DOCP = DRAM OverClock Profile

 

You can run CPU-Z and check the 'Memory' tab.

3000 MHz should read as ~1500 MHz.

While DDR4 memory JEDEC default (XMP or DOCP disabled) is 2133 MHz should read ~1067 MHz.

 

 

Example here, my workstation at work here is running DDR4-2400 MHz memory, so it reads ~1200 MHz.

Ahhh right I'll have a look at that cheers!