Ok it turns out the only thing I needed to do was get the windows 7 fx update and turn off turbo in bios. I hope this helps people with this problem in the future!
I’m having the exact same problem and need to know.. What exactly fixed your issue? Disabling cores? This is driving me nuts.
Fx8350 with asrock 960GM/U3S3 FX
8gig ddr3 1333
120g ssd
Ati hd 6850
Every 12 seconds fps drops from 30 to 10 no matter what settings
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