Guild Wars 2

so i really want to come back to gw2 loved the game before when i quit it was because a fps crash i get often in pvp and dungeons etc , i was told it was throttling but its only for this game my cpu voltage drops from 1.3v to like 0.8v but its not overheating. my cpu is an amd 8320 @3.5ghz please help me fix this i will help with whatever info i can i can play at 40+ fps but not 11-12 when it drops ha !

You say it’s not overheating, but how do you measure it and what are the results you’re getting? With a little research I found out there could be an option in your BIOS that throttles down you CPU even at as low kitten C. Check you don’t have that enabled. Others reported the cause was VRM overheating, you could place a fan pointing at it.

This may sound stupid but do I want the fan blowing towards the vrm or sucking air away ? Any cheap fan do the trick I do have a corsair h60 but I’m not sure what it’s doing ha thought that would be enough to keep a unclocked system cool

Well, blowing or sucking (terms push and pull are usually used when it comes to fans) is just moving air into some direction, what matters is that the VRM gets cold air to it and hot air out of it. Usually PC cases have natural front-to-back airflow and you shouldn’t go against it, put a fan somewhere in front of it in push or behind it in pull, where ever is the best place to attach it.

Your H60 sure should keep your CPU cool seeing you haven’t overclocked, but the problem with liquid coolers is that depending where you have placed the radiator part the airflow might not reach the VRM which it would on an air cooling heatsink, especially if the airflow in the case isn’t too great.

Thing is my case is tiny like I don’t think I have anywhere to put another small fan surely I should complain to pcspecialist for selling me something that doesn’t exactly work what do you reakon ?