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Why are my 1% Lows so bad in games? What can affect it?

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marshen

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I recently upgraded from a 3600 to a 5700X3D and expected much better 1% lows performance than what I've been getting. For example, in Battlefield 2042, my average FPS was around 130-140 but my 1% lows are in high 60s to low 70s. During the BF6 Beta, the experience was similar i.e. high average FPS but poor 1% Lows. I've just been wondering what are some things that can affect 1% lows in games?

Here's a bit of my system's recent history! My CPU is around 2 months old. My motherboard is a nearly 6 year old B450 Tomahawk Max. My OS (W11 Pro) and game are both installed on a M.2 Crucial P3 1TB SSD.

I used to run 16GB (2x8GB) RAM but I had to add an additional 16 GB (another 2x8GB) for work purposes (4x8GB). This new set of ram has the same model number (Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz CL16 16-20-20-38) but 2 sticks are from Samsung, and 2 are from Hynix.

So far, I think my RAM is what is causing the issue, but I need to confirm it before making any changes.

I recently also...

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