I've been experiencing a strange issue while playing games on my PC after upgrading to a new 1TB SSD. I have a Ryzen 7 3800XT, an RX 7600 GPU, and 32GB of DDR4 Vengeance RAM. My CPU and GPU temperatures are stable at 50-60°C, and my CPU usage peaks at 70% while gaming, with the GPU around 60%. However, after about 15 minutes of playing Rust, my FPS steadily decreases from 120 to as low as 15. Strangely, during these FPS drops, the usage for both the CPU and GPU also drops significantly, down to 32% for the CPU and 27% for the GPU, and temperatures lower as well. I've updated the BIOS, set the power plan to the optimal AMD setting, reapplied thermal paste recently, and removed unnecessary programs, yet the problem persists. I'm puzzled because it seems like thermal throttling, but the temperatures aren't indicating that. Any ideas?
2 Answers
Just to clarify, when you mentioned temperatures going down to 45%, did you mean Celsius? Be sure to watch out for conflicting programs that can affect power settings because they can severely impact performance. Keeping an eye on running processes might help identify if something's throttling your CPU without you realizing it.
It sounds like you may be facing a CPU bottleneck, especially with the low GPU usage. First, double-check that your Windows power plan is set to 'High Performance.' Also, ensure there are no background programs, like Ryzen Master, altering your CPU frequency. You might want to reset your BIOS to default settings after updating it, except for enabling the XMP or DOCP profile for your RAM. That might help stabilize your performance.
Yeah, that was a mix-up! I meant temps in Celsius. Thanks for catching that!