Low FPS and Fluctuation issues

[bredtoshred]

Hi Everyone,

I am searching for some help. I have had this computer I built for a while, I upgraded to a 3070 and had similar issues with my 1080 and I can't seem to figure out why my FPS is so low or will fluctuate so much. I have installed new drivers, reset windows. Restarted computer. I benched my cpu with z-cpu scored a bit low 2485.2 compared to reference 2648, but that shouldn't be this massive of a difference. My temps all seem to be normal.
PC Specs:
CPU: i7-7700k cooled with noctua dh15s

ram: 16gb at 2133
GPU: rtx 3070- evga xc3
SSD
The games I play mostly are Smite and Valorant.
Smite is the biggest problem I run on flucuate on medium or low settings from around 90-144fps so much tearing it is hard to play sometimes
Valorant on Low settings gets me 165. FPS estimator says I should be getting 367 on high. 
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or solutions.
I started on medical leave and aren't really in a spot to financially to replace CPU and mother board and ram.

[Hinjima]

4 minutes ago, bredtoshred said:

Hi Everyone,

I am searching for some help. I have had this computer I built for a while, I upgraded to a 3070 and had similar issues with my 1080 and I can't seem to figure out why my FPS is so low or will fluctuate so much. I have installed new drivers, reset windows. Restarted computer. I benched my cpu with z-cpu scored a bit low 2485.2 compared to reference 2648, but that shouldn't be this massive of a difference. My temps all seem to be normal.
PC Specs:
CPU: i7-7700k cooled with noctua dh15s

ram: 16gb at 2133
GPU: rtx 3070- evga xc3
SSD
The games I play mostly are Smite and Valorant.
Smite is the biggest problem I run on flucuate on medium or low settings from around 90-144fps so much tearing it is hard to play sometimes
Valorant on Low settings gets me 165. FPS estimator says I should be getting 367 on high. 
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or solutions.
I started on medical leave and aren't really in a spot to financially to replace CPU and mother board and ram.

it could be a slight CPU bottleneck, its starting to show age ( 6 years )  and a 4 core CPU do struggle in 2023. However, I would think that Smite and Valorant are somewhat easy games to run.

[bredtoshred]

33 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

it could be a slight CPU bottleneck, its starting to show age ( 6 years )  and a 4 core CPU do struggle in 2023. However, I would think that Smite and Valorant are somewhat easy games to run.

I had the same problem with 1080 I don't think its a bottleneck especially given the low graphics setting which would be gpu?

[SpookyCitrus]

13 minutes ago, bredtoshred said:

I had the same problem with 1080 I don't think its a bottleneck especially given the low graphics setting which would be gpu?

The lower the graphics settings and resolution you run the more it stresses the CPU not the GPU. If you want the GPU to be the workhorse run the game in higher resolutions and higher settings to take more of the load off of the CPU.

 

A 3070 will absolutely bottleneck a 7700k.

 

 

[bredtoshred]

16 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

The lower the graphics settings and resolution you run the more it stresses the CPU not the GPU. If you want the GPU to be the workhorse run the game in higher resolutions and higher settings to take more of the load off of the CPU.

 

A 3070 will absolutely bottleneck a 7700k.

 

 

so I raised the settings to high a, I only have a 1080p monitor so I left it, but I havent gone over 120 fps

[SpookyCitrus]

Just now, bredtoshred said:

so I raised the settings to high a, I only have a 1080p monitor so I left it, but I havent gone over 120 fps

That's going to be due to your 7700K, you definitely have a CPU bottleneck.

[bredtoshred]

1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

That's going to be due to your 7700K, you definitely have a CPU bottleneck.

But like when I had 7700k and gtx 1080, I would have similar problems. CPU still bottlenecking 1080?

[191x7]

6 hours ago, bredtoshred said:

But like when I had 7700k and gtx 1080, I would have similar problems. CPU still bottlenecking 1080?

If you played on low details with that generations old i3 (don't tell me it's an i7, the 7700K has the same technology, same number of cores, same number of threads and similar clocks to an i3 10100!) you were severely bottlenecking even the 1080 card.

What you got from upgrading to a stronger card while keeping the details is even more stutters since the new card is bottlenecked a lot more than the old. And the 3070 probably switches between lower power profiles (since the CPU can't feed it) so that's even worse.