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I've had my PC for just over two years. Recently, whenever I'm in-game (Valorant specifically), I notice that if I have anything open, my game will severely drop frames whenever there's mouse input. I'm not sure if this is just because of age, or something might be wrong. I recently took the PC apart and changed the thermal paste, as well as blew all the dust out, but it started acting up after a week again. I know the system can handle more as I used to stream on the rig with no problems, but now even Youtube open on Firefox causes 60-70% FPS loss. Any ideas? CPU usually doesn't go above 60% while this is happening either.

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X

Motherboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max
GPU: EVGA RTX 3060

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Turn off all background processes that arent essential. That will give it a boost.

Why do you need firefox open in the background anyway while gaming?

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4 minutes ago, rippy4500 said:

Turn off all background processes that arent essential. That will give it a boost.

Why do you need firefox open in the background anyway while gaming?

Background processes are limited to Discord, Lightshot and Logitech software. I have Firefox open usually to observe stream chat when I'm streaming, or just having emails up in case something comes in.

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17 minutes ago, Katernum said:

I've had my PC for just over two years. Recently, whenever I'm in-game (Valorant specifically), I notice that if I have anything open, my game will severely drop frames whenever there's mouse input. I'm not sure if this is just because of age, or something might be wrong. I recently took the PC apart and changed the thermal paste, as well as blew all the dust out, but it started acting up after a week again. I know the system can handle more as I used to stream on the rig with no problems, but now even Youtube open on Firefox causes 60-70% FPS loss. Any ideas? CPU usually doesn't go above 60% while this is happening either.

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X

Motherboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max
GPU: EVGA RTX 3060

What ram speed? Do you have PBO enabled? Overclocks etc?

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You probably have a video running on Youtube that's  encoded using the AV1 codec, and that can't be hardware decoded so it uses more cpu than normal. If that's the case, see if there's some option in your youtube profile to keep it to VP9 encoded videos.

Also see in Task manager which firefox processes use cpu and memory and kill that specific process ... it will result in that tab crashing, and you can simply reload the tab (it can happen for javascript in one page to go nuts and use a lot of ram and/or cpu, killing the process will reset the tab)

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8 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

What ram speed? Do you have PBO enabled? Overclocks etc?

3200. PBO is enabled, and I'm using Afterburner to overclock my GPU, but it isn't open most of the time this is happening.

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7 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You probably have a video running on Youtube that's  encoded using the AV1 codec, and that can't be hardware decoded so it uses more cpu than normal. If that's the case, see if there's some option in your youtube profile to keep it to VP9 encoded videos.

Also see in Task manager which firefox processes use cpu and memory and kill that specific process ... it will result in that tab crashing, and you can simply reload the tab (it can happen for javascript in one page to go nuts and use a lot of ram and/or cpu, killing the process will reset the tab)

I've noticed it in small bits even when New Tab is only open. I've also tried pulling off most of the add-ons on my browser, but to no avail.

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2 minutes ago, Katernum said:

3200. PBO is enabled, and I'm using Afterburner to overclock my GPU, but it isn't open most of the time this is happening.

Alright. Disable PBO, disable and stop afterburner from running at startup. Restart after changing this

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FS in Denmark/EU:

Asus Dual GTX 1060 3GB. Used maximum 4 months total. Looks like new. Card never opened. Give me a price. 

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Latest BIOS?

 

Tried reinstalling valorant?

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Have you added a lot of USB devices? Excessive USB devices / usage can cause PCIe issues.

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