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So I have occasinally experienced some random frame drops while I play GTA V, but nothing I would find too distracting. I have a system originally built for budget after all. However, this day I experienced some drops that were just too aggravating to ignore, so I ran a test and noticed my CPU is reaching 100% several times while I play. I figure it might be a bottleneck of some sort, but I am not sure which. I suspect it might be my motherboard, but I'm not yet experienced enough to make a diagnosis.

 

My current rig has:

i5-6600K at stock speed (there was a sale that included a TX3i, so I swapped out my i5-6400 for added speed and a silent, better-looking cooler, overclock wasn't considered)

MSI B150 PC Mate (again, original rig was built on a budget)

EVGA GTX 1070 FTW (upgrade from a 960 by Gainward)

 

Anyone have any suggestions for a solution?

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3,5GHz

-Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3i

Motherboard: MSI B150 PC Mate LGA1151 ATX

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4-2133MHz

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540 White

-Fans: 3x Corsair HD120 1x Corsair AF140L

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW

PSU: Corsair CX600M

Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB SSD (System disk) + Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD (Storage)

Operating System: Windows 8.1
 

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This is a CPU bottleneck as motherboards do not effect performance.

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4 minutes ago, Damascus said:

A swap to a 7700/6700/7700k/6700k could help

Yeah that's not happening anytime soon. I have already paid a decent amount for one CPU and then more for the upgrade. Not really swimming in money to make another CPU upgrade. Besides, I didn't have as much issue before, with the 6400 and 960, but that might be for other reasons (such as little attention or lower settings or whatever)

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3,5GHz

-Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3i

Motherboard: MSI B150 PC Mate LGA1151 ATX

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4-2133MHz

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540 White

-Fans: 3x Corsair HD120 1x Corsair AF140L

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW

PSU: Corsair CX600M

Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB SSD (System disk) + Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD (Storage)

Operating System: Windows 8.1
 

Partpicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wPhTtJ

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Is your turbo Boost is ON?
Check your Power Option Make sure its on Performance mod as Balanced mod max power set to 99 which disables turbo boost of a CPU. 

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Can you describe exactly what kind of "aggravating frame drops" you're getting? 

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It's time to crank up the DSR and AA to increase the load on that GPU of yours a bit more...

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