People with old CPUs (2019 or older): How are your 1% lows?
Hi guys,
i do have awful 1% lows since january with my i7 9700. But let me tell the whole story:
My specs were:
i7 9700
16 GB Ram
RXT 2070 Super
1440p ultrawide resolution
and I never had any monitoring about 1% lows running. I just played at 90 FPS capped, which felt absolutely smooth and fine. The system could do up to 110 but unstable. DLSS Quality.
In anticipation of buying a new rig late 2026 and in concern of probably rising prices for GPUs i already bought a 9070 XT and obviously use it although the system is a little imbalanced with it. Obviously did the usual DDU stuff with clean driver install in secured mode etc.
But since I swapped the GPU, I have better FPS (of course) up to 140 (I think, this is the CPU limit for me). But I felt awful micro stutters. So I began to enable the detailed Steam performance overlay.
And indeed, the FPS drop to as bad as like 35 or even sometimes one digit every 5-10 seconds. Like when I go into dark side, or fire a shot. But not reproducable and not every time.
Because I had zero issues with my RTX 2070S before (didn't monitor it but I would have felt it if it had been this bad), I am pretty sure there is another issue than just a CPU bottleneck.
My suspicion is that it could have something to do with the riser cable or the motherboard. The motherboard is a stripped down version of an MSI B360M Bazooka from an Infinite A prebuilt with an OEM Bios that never received any updates.
So since this is not the PCMR subreddit, I just wanna get some numbers from you, if you are rocking a CPU that is from 2019 or older about your 1% lows.
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