GPU sometimes not drawing enough power

[hhgeka]

This happened a while ago and I have been ignoring it for the most part but its getting really annoying now. A few months ago I noticed I had lower frames than usual (about 100+ less) and frame drops/stuttering while playing SOME games and after looking through HWiNFO64 I noticed my GPU was only drawing 40-50% power, but was running at 100% utilisation. The temperatures of the GPU also stayed below 70C with fans on low. Asked someone a while ago who said it is most likely not hardware failure as the power draw loss only occurs on some games rather than system wide.

PC specs
i5 9600k
Asus Z370-G motherboard
32gb 2666MHZ (2x16gb)
500gb SSD + 1tb HDD
ASUS ROG GTX 1080 8GB
550W Gold PSU

 

More details:

CS:GO: GPU draws roughly 70W of power, CPU draws roughly 30W.

Tarkov: GPU draws 160-180W of power, (don't have one of CPU - can get if needed).

Rust: GPU draws roughly 90W power.

 

Attempts to fix:

- Messing around in power settings of both nvidia control panel and windows settings.

- Messing around with settings in game

- Completely wiping my SSD and unplugging my hard drive - problem still occurred.

(can provide screenshots of hwinfo64 if needed)

 

Any help on diagnosing the problem would be appreciated.

[Tablesalt2001]

What PSU do you have exactly (brand and product name)? Does the PSU have a rest switch? have you tried removing dust?

 

It might also just be faulty, PSU's usually have a fairly long waranty. When did you buy the unit?

[hhgeka]

PSU is a SilverStone 550W Strider Gold S 80+ Gold Power Supply (ST55F-GS) - bought in early 2019.

 

I did give my entire pc a quick dust a month ago but didn't open up the psu or anything

[SavageNeo]

2 hours ago, hhgeka said:

as the power draw loss only occurs on some games

well that should tell you that it is not hardware problem. its the game pr oblem. i have the same problem with rust

[Mick Naughty]

So what does it do with benchmarks, some actual testing rather than a game?

[hhgeka]

3 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

So what does it do with benchmarks, some actual testing rather than a game?

Benchmarks it reaches 100% wattage

[hhgeka]

12 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

well that should tell you that it is not hardware problem. its the game pr oblem. i have the same problem with rust

Yeah the only problem is it didn't used to happen, and now some games are unplayable due to the game stuttering constantly/extremely low fps.