2920XM- Problems in game. Please help.

Okay, sorry if this is elsewhere I really tried my best to look at every search result, but none have exactly what I am looking for.

What is happening and what I want to do to remedy this situation:

In BF3 I get these random pauses. The game will just stop and then about 2 seconds later pick up where it left off, but most of the time leaving me to die. The problem, from what I have read and the tests I have done in game (render.perfoverlay crap to see my CPU spiking randomly for no reason when I was alone in a server), is that the CPU when it turbo boosts hits a high clock around 4 GHz (factory OC) then it drops to around 2.5Ghz spiking the cpu load in the process and making my gameplay stop for a second or two while bf3 gets used to the new clock. I want to know how I can raise the lower limit of the turbo boost to remedy this problem. I don't want to push my system to it's "limits" I just want to raise the bottom variable so that it doesn't have such a surge of performance then drops all of a sudden.

Any information you can provide about the processor and what actually is happening would help increase my understanding of what is going on. As of now, this is my theory on what is happening. I have unlocked bios set on the "Level 3" overclock leftover from when i flashed from the locked ones. I have the ThrottleStop program and have a general understanding of it's functioning.

Hope you can help,

Wash

 

Sorry for the double post but here is more information pertaining to the issue. Here is a screenshot of the overlay display (while it is doing the mico-freeze) and my ThrottleStop log.

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I haven't got any clue what video cards you have, but whatever you have is surely sufficient to run BF3.

I am no expert, but I have a few ideas.

When these pauses happen, are the eyes on the alien head power button flashing, like data is being read?

As long as you're not on the integrated graphics, any current setup should run BF3 just fine.

 

As far as I know, there's one of two reasons that the CPU could be spiking: it's either hitting a thermal limit, or a power limit.

For the latter, you can raise the maximum power draw during turbo in the BIOS, but if you're factory overclocked then that should have already been done if I remember rightly. For the former...I'd advise checking your temperatures, and post back. You may need to either reduce the overclock or re-paste the CPU heatsink to improve thermals.

 

Just a quick question did you upgrade the cpu or was it factory fitted , the reason i ask is some people dont realize they require a dual pipe heatsink and also maybe the pasting wasnt sucessful , but the cpu throttling really shouldnt be that noticable because a 2.5 mhz its still plenty powerful to run any games , it sounds more like graphic cards playing up due to heat run GPUZ on both gpu ie load it up twice and select each card play you game and then you can check the highest temp per card and if they are 75 ish then ok or use real temp 360 that will give you real time temps on your cpu and log it anyway good luck mate.

 

Hey Washable, you say that screenshot is during the freeze? Are those green numbers at the top right your frames per second? If during the freezes your fps are still that high, I believe there might be an entirely different issue.

 

Yeah man the green is my frames. I know it's not the GPU. I have the crossfire 6970s and they run it great. I really feel like it's the CPU, but idk.