Was it always like this or did get worse over time? What antiviruses do you run? What OS are you running? Windows 7 will park 4 out of the 8 cores on you. If you have a lot of stuff running in the background that will hurt you too.
I have been running i7's from when they first came out. I have never had to turn stuff off or on in the bios to make the computer run games any better. One other thing is just games or the computer in general?
thanks for the answer(i wasn't home for a week),
I am running windows 7 64 bit, im using microsoft security essintials(had McAfee and hated it), i dont have much stuff running on the background only steam, skype and anti-virus maybe some drivers nothing that should hurt the system.
the problem is the graphics card the many people complained about, the gtx 970.
and so i contacted the geforce forums and they told me the (probably) problem is that it's not getting enough power(i guess?) and so i need to turn of my c-states.
so i came to this forum in order to get help finding that option in the bios, because i didn't.
as i said my bios version is 'F5' and my motherboard is "H97M-HD3".
now maybe i got it clearer.