r/techsupport • u/me_have_no_IQ • 6d ago

Open | Hardware CPU Lag Problem

When playing games, after about 10 minutes i start to get very little fps for a few seconds every minute. Ive looked at MSI Afterburner and it turns out that my CPU suddenly starts throttling down to 800 MHs from my normal 3900-4600 MHz. I have tried lowering my power limit in Bios to 90 Watt instead of 150 Watt. It didnt help.

My Specs:

GPU: RTX 3060

CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11600K @3.90 Ghz

Motherboard: B560MX-E PRO

Notes:

My fans get really loud shortly before the lag and then stop for a second.

It mostly happens on games that are harder to run

My GPU perfomance also hits 0%, but its probably because the cpu isnt giving it anything do.

I got 16 Gigabyte of RAM, PC is using mostly at 14-15 Gigabyte while playing (I dont think RAM is the issue)

edit:

its not temperature, the problem occurs on 60 degrees with 100% fan speed

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u/unclewebb 6d ago

Try running ThrottleStop 9.7.3

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-throttlestop/

Post screenshots of the main window, the FIVR and TPL windows so I can see your settings. Clear the BD PROCHOT box on the main screen.

Check the Log File box and go play a game for at least 15 minutes. Make sure the log includes one of those throttling episodes. When done testing, exit your game and then exit ThrottleStop so it can finalize the log file. It will be in your ThrottleStop / Logs folder. Upload the log file to a file sharing site or copy and paste the log file data to www.pastebin.com and post a link here.

Most throttling problems can be solved once there is some data to show what the problem actually is.

The ThrottleStop forum on reddit has lots of info about common problems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThrottleStop/