Am I simply underpowered in the CPU department here? I've tried everything short of reinstalling Windows, but I cannot seem to get anything stable past 30 frames in the benchmark, and many scenes will fail to hit 45 and start slow-motion regardless of what I do with settings.
Looking at system metrics, it does appear to be putting my GPU to work as high as 90% load, but my render times are fine.
The thing that baffles me is the physics time. This really seems to be what's killing my performance at the moment, but CPU temps are in the 50s, and the heaviest loaded core will only spike past 30% while a scene loads, then it drops right down to where the most loaded core is hangign in the 20s while the scene runs. It is almost like it's just not using the CPU. I've tried setting up the ultimate power profile and running ThrottleStop to make sure that I'm running as wide open as I can.
Any insight as to what's going on would be greatly appreciated.
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