low cpu usage low performance

[Elfman]

Overwatch was running fine up until this week my CPU usage now is around 70%-80% instead of 90%-99%. My FPS drops to 90 at times during team fights and hardly reaches 180 anymore (I have a 180hz monitor). I have nothing in the back except discord and task manager and the total CPU usage is what Overwatch is using.

 

specs:

i5 7600k

GTX 1070

16gb ram

[SwingLifeAway92]

Check temps usually if a quad core isn't pinned then the 1070 isn't at peak performance

[STRESSMASTER]

You can also change the idle freq to 100% and active core to keep all core active all the time. Also watch those temps as it maybe the Video Card auto down clocking from heat. This will affect your CPU %. Remember a computer can only run as fast as it's slowest component. 

[Elfman]

13 hours ago, STRESSMASTER said:

You can also change the idle freq to 100% and active core to keep all core active all the time. Also watch those temps as it maybe the Video Card auto down clocking from heat. This will affect your CPU %. Remember a computer can only run as fast as it's slowest component. 

I don't want to mess with the idle freq and also my GPU card is mostly around 50-60 I have the fans turned up in msi afterburner

[Elfman]

13 hours ago, SwingLifeAway92 said:

Check temps usually if a quad core isn't pinned then the 1070 isn't at peak performance

temps are fine