i7 3770 thermal throttling CPU issue (SOLVED)

[D.]

Anyone? How well does IB run on your rig? Do you still get fps drops?
Planning on upgrading soon from a i7 3rd gen 3770 non-k and gtx 1060 6gb soon and I'm eyeing this as my next cpu. My average fps tanks to low 20 in Astera or anywhere randomly so I suspect it's time for an upgrade. (Recent patch doesn't help nor scaling the resolution to 900p or lower)

[tywald]

You want to upgrade from 4 cores, 8 threads to 4 cores 8 thread? I have i7-3770K and I wouldn't do that (because next generation consoles [PS5, Xbox Scarlett] will have 8 cores, 16 threads and you wouldn't want lower than that) :P But it's your money so do whatever.

Do you have that low even with lowered settings? Since I can get 60fps at stock (3.5GHz) but with a GTX 1070. You should be fine if you turn off Volume Rendering, Ambient Occlusion and decrease LOD Bias to medium. You can also set Image Quality to prioritize framerate.

[D.]

Thanks for replying. I've tried just about everything from low settings presets, turning everything off, lowering the resolution to even 720p and the cpu usage still spikes up to 80% and fps tanks on certain areas like Astera or the Guiding Lands. Problem still persists after patch 13.50.01. I even tried the performance fix using strackers and that still doesn't work so I'm out of ideas.
As for upgrading the 3300x high clock speeds are enticing and it's well within my budget. Either that or a 2600 since they're both close to $100+ where I live.

[tywald]

Can you run like MSI Afterburner and turn on the on-screen display so we can compare? Since we have similar CPUs. There are some additional fixes I applied a couple of years ago which might impact the results a bit like turning off Control flow guard (CFG) for MHW under Exploit protection in Windows Defender.

I capped frequency to 3.0GHz which puts it even below your base clocks of 3.4GHz and ran one lap around Astera at 60fps. Yes I'm CPU bound but it was enough to maintain 60 in this case, you should be able to as well.

https://i.imgur.com/gDdnOXw.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX0nRAjf7u0

[D.]

Hey tywald, thanks for taking the time to look into this. In my desperation, I think I stumbled upon, hopefully, a long term fix. Long story short, I found out that my CPU was thermal throttling once it reaches 62-63­°C (have a Hyper 212 cooler) for some reason and clock speeds would go down to 1.6Ghz until thermals normalizes. I couldn't be bothered to investigate further but I resolved this by capping the the clock speed to 2.7-2.8 ghz using a program called ThrottleStop and the thermals are hovering at 57-58°C under load. I haven't had a fps dip since. I might try pushing it to 3ghz see if I can get it stable at 60°C.
You're right on the money about capping cpu clock speeds. That would have fixed the problem had I slept on this lol. Thanks again. Hopefully other people on the same boat might find this info useful.
Still looking to getting a 3300x system and donate my current rig to my mate. Would appreciate any first hand account from owners.

[tywald]

Glad you found the cause! :) Yeah if you move to 3300X you should probably pick up a B550 board which is coming in like 3 weeks so you won't have complications upgrading to Zen 3 in the future (yes B450 and X470 will support it too now but at this point if you don't already have one go for B550), B550 will also have PCI-E 4.0 support.

[SvartDag]

Hello, i wonder how you managed to cap the speed of your i7 3770 ?, im having exactly the same issue with this processor and i dont know how to cap the speed as you did since in the throttlestop program i dont have the FWL option

[D.]

Originally posted by SvartDag:

Hello, i wonder how you managed to cap the speed of your i7 3770 ?, im having exactly the same issue with this processor and i dont know how to cap the speed as you did since in the throttlestop program i dont have the FWL option

Hi. Yes I was able to cap the speed. I can't take a screenshot anymore since I'm upgrade to more recent hardware and Throttlestop won't run if you're on an incompatible CPU (I'm upgraded to a Ryzen 3600x since) so bear with me with just text instructions.

Look for the option that says "Set Multiplier". I'm no tech wiz but I surmised it's the boost clock of the CPU. Make sure it's ticked and across it it should say something like "37T" I kept mine at "30T". You'll know that it's working if the in the FID column values are kept at a max if 30.00 which should be 3Ghz. I haven't had any thermal throttling since.

Also not sure if this helps but I had like incremental upgrades to my PC hardware since posting this thread and I noticed that the thermal throttling issue went away even WITHOUT the help of Throttlestop by updating to the latest Windows 10 and Nvidia driver version at that time.

Hope this helps!