CPU performing way below expectations

[Jules A]

Hello,

 

My PC seems to be performing way below expectations, mostly the CPU. I used MSI Afterburner to check load and temps of CPU and everything seems fine.

On every game my CPU would be running at 100% load consistently with normal temps; I would get roughly 150~ fps on CSGO (Playing on 1152x768 with mixed settings) on average with 50~fps on battlefield 1 (Similar FPS on all settings). 

 

I would get about 20% load on idle on my pc with a few things running in the background like wallpaper engine, spotify, steam, corsair engine, discord and bit defender.

I did a benchmark on userbenchmark.com and it shows in the picture. A friend recommended me to do a bios reset but wanted to check before that.

 

SPECS:

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 8GB

Corsair H75 Liquid CPU Cooler

700W Aerocool Integrator 80+ Power Supply

Asus B150M Pro Gaming Micro ATX

HDD, SSD, CPU in the picture

[Rainbow Dash]

Apparently that PSU is very bad quality, so that could be the issue. Also bad power supplies are a risk to all your other components, that is if it goes it will take everything out with it.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Adjust expectations?  

 

15 minutes ago, Jules A said:

 

 

I would get about 20% load on idle on my pc with a few things running in the background like wallpaper engine, spotify, steam, corsair engine, discord and bit defender.

 

Idle CPU usage should be 1-3%. Otherwise, someone is not really "idling". Investigate who and why, and make sure you have 99% "system idle process" or similar before launching the game, then see results.

 

11 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Apparently that PSU is very bad quality, so that could be the issue.

Highly unlikely. Bad PSUs can cause more drastic problems, but not a subtle performance issue, and certainly not high CPU usage.

[Rainbow Dash]

Make sure you are running on High Performance in Windows Power Options, and also make sure your VRMs are not over heating as that could drop your clock speeds causing the CPU to max out.

[Jules A]

16 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Make sure you are running on High Performance in Windows Power Options, and also make sure your VRMs are not over heating as that could drop your clock speeds causing the CPU to max out.

CPU is running at 3600MHz most of the time, and its already at high performance in power options for both nvidia and windows

 

36 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Adjust expectations?  

 

 

Idle CPU usage should be 1-3%. Otherwise, someone is not really "idling". Investigate who and why, and make sure you have 99% "system idle process" or similar before launching the game, then see results.

 

Highly unlikely. Bad PSUs can cause more drastic problems, but not a subtle performance issue, and certainly not high CPU usage.

What do you mean by the system idle process

[rukspuks]

Retest after closing all programs. 

[Rainbow Dash]

Just now, Jules A said:

What do you mean by the system idle process

They mean you close all your background programs and apps and try running a game like that. Also disable shadowplay too just to make sure.

[Jules A]

29 minutes ago, rukspuks said:

Retest after closing all programs. 

 

25 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

They mean you close all your background programs and apps and try running a game like that. Also disable shadowplay too just to make sure.

This is what I got after closing everything

[SpaceGhostC2C]

39 minutes ago, Jules A said:

What do you mean by the system idle process

It's how task manager shows the % of CPU not in use. For example:

 

 

Use task manager -> processes -> sort by CPU usage to know which program is using your resources.

[Rainbow Dash]

I just noticed that your CPU is turbo boosting to an average of 3.6GHz, instead of close to the max of 3.9GHz.

Go download XTU: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU- and run the stress test to check if something is up with either the motherboard, psu or cpu. Cause the only things I could think of is that either your VRM on your motherboard are overheating since that heatsink isn't the most beefy thing, or psu power delivery issues. Get a fan blowing on that heatsink and test it again.

[Jules A]

4 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

I just noticed that your CPU is turbo boosting to an average of 3.6GHz, instead of close to the max of 3.9GHz.

Go download XTU: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU- and run the stress test to check if something is up with either the motherboard, psu or cpu. Cause the only things I could think of is that either your VRM on your motherboard are overheating since that heatsink isn't the most beefy thing, or psu power delivery issues. Get a fan blowing on that heatsink and test it again.

Will do that later, the fan on the hydro is right above that so not sure if that would cause it to over heat