I’m suffering from a quite weird problem,
Already since my I got my new PC (Since end April this year) I got lag spikes in almost every game (except in very light games).
It doesn’t matter if it is an online game, or just offline.
The lag games up after every serveral minute(s), and the duration of the lags are like 10 to 20 seconds long,
The frames per second from frop 60 to 8-15fps.
While the lag spike is starting, the temperature of both CPU and GPU is fine.
The CPU usage of the games raises like 10-20%, and the overall CPU usage is like 70-80%.
The GPU usage drops from 95 to 20%.
I also tried to use another HDD, with 7200RPM, that should be fine in my opinion.
And I tried to update my GPU drivers too, but that didn’t make sense too.
Here are my specs:
Power supply: Corsair CMPSU-600CX V2
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3
CPU: AMD FX-8150 (8-core) @ 3600 MHz
CPU Fan: Cooler Master Hyper212 Evo
GPU: Asus ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5
RAM: Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600
This computer should be able to run games like GTA IV, Battlefield 3, ArmA II, Max Payne 3 etc without problems, but I’m suffering from lag spikes with all these games.
I hope someone has some advice for me.
Thanks in advance!
Joshoon.
http://www.arcticsilver.com/amd_app…
You (or someone) probably installed the heat sink with too much or too little thermal compound or it is not torqued down evenly. Any disturbing of the heat sink means that you need to completely remove, clean both surfaces, and reinstall it.
If this does not help (it should), you are running too much voltage to your CPU and need to back off on it. One method of increasing stability during overclocking is to increase the voltage a little bit, but this comes at the ‘price’ of additional heat. whether this was done for overclocking or accidentally in the BIOS, it needs to be corrected.
You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.