graphics card upgrade time :)

chaotic_uk · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:25

I have around £500 to spend on a new gfx car to replace my rx480 any advice welcome

specs:
cpu : ryzen 1600 @3.9
asus prime b350 +
16gb adata 3000mhz @2933mhz
Kingston savage 250 gb ssd + 1gb 7200 Toshiba sata3
ocz psu 850w gold rated
windows 10 x64

at the moment I have a 1080p monitor which I will upgrade at a later date , I would prefer to stay with amd radeon based cards but I am temped to get a gtx1080 (is this a good idea ? )

arc@css · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:35

I'd have thought that the 480 would be enough for 1080p?

geordiejc · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:41

^^ agreed - no need for GPU upgrade on a 1080p/60hz monitor ?

I wouldn't recommend anyone buy a 1080 now - it's been out ages i'd keep the money buy a really nice 144hz 1440p monitor then buy a used 1080 or whatever nvidias next equivalent is for £500

chaotic_uk · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:46

getting dips to below 30 fps in nearly all games , atm I play games like 7 days to die and startrek online and the framerate is horrid even with the rx480 overclocked to 1320mhz . I am aiming for 3x 27" 1080p or 1440p monitors after xmas , also playing rage and the new doom and few others which also get stutter/frame rate drops to around 20 fps for some reason and my rx480 sounds like a jet engine at times (cleaned the dust out already)

geordiejc · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:50

30fps drops seems odd.

What trouble shooting have you tried?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:51

Make sure you don't have a mining malware on your system.

geordiejc · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:55

Check GPU utilisation in windows.
Are you being thermally throttled? temps during gaming?
CPU temps ?

chaotic_uk · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:56

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Make sure you don't have a mining malware on your system.

I scan for those every other day

chaotic_uk · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:02

geordiejc said:
Check GPU utilisation in windows.
Are you being thermally throttled? temps during gaming?
CPU temps ?

temps are 75-79c max as I have increased the fan speed profile is wattman (what a silly name lolz)

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:04

chaotic_uk said:
I scan for those every other day

Have you tried Malwarebytes,etc?

You should not be getting those dips in all games. I had an RX470 for a brief period and I have a Xeon E3 1230 V2/Core i7 3770 and I didn't see those kind of dips in most games.

For example in Doom at 1080p I didn't get those kind of sub 30FPS dips with a GTX960 4GB. Star Trek Online in theory should be more CPU bound being an online game too.

A mate had an RX480 and a Core i7 6700 and he didn't mentioned getting any dips either.

I would probably check your CPU cooler is making decent contact,and reset any overclock you have on the GPU and CPU to stock clockspeeds too.

chaotic_uk · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:09

cpu cooler is the Corsair Hydro Series H80i v2 and the corsair software says he temps are 29c idle and 50c under load , and I use Malwarebytes

geordiejc · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:15

use afterburner log all data and when you get a 30 fps dip check the logs for odd behaviour e.g. core clock dips to stock.

chaotic_uk · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:19

clocks stay at what I set the clock speeds to so after burner says , both at stock 1266mhz and 1300 I have used after burner with the power set to +50 . also increased the fan speeds in afterburner and it sound like a jet lol

geordiejc · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:26

Something isnt right.

Doom you should get over 100fps on ultra @ 1080p with an rx 480 on vulkan/opengl . The good news (double edge sword here) is it's happening in all games so it's not the games fault. Have you oc'd your ram i.e. instability ? is your bios up to date ? (i'm not familiar with ryzen oc's)

Could the card be faulty? have you tried it in a friends system ?

chaotic_uk · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:38

I have stress tested the ram and cpu for 7 hours and both passed , the ram is at rated speed and the cpu was @55c while I stress tested it and it passed fine .
I have tried everything I can think of and it still happens lol . the store where where I purchased the rx480 says the warrenty has run out

geordiejc · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:45

which PCIE slot have you used ? (i assume you have used the correct one @ 16x)

i'd be tempted to wipe my ssd and install windows fresh, amd drivers then steam and see what happens before splashing out £500 on a new GPU.

ubersonic · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:49

Two ideas:

1: Is DSR (or whatever the AMD equivalent is) on in the drivers? as that will basically run everything at 1440p/4K and downscale it to 1080p.

2: If you were able to stress the CPU/RAM for 7 hours try downloading a GPU miner and running it for a few hours, if it doesn't have issues then you can just sell the card to a miner and add another £200 to your new card budget.

chaotic_uk · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:49

ssd was wiped 2 weeks ago in the hope of a fresh install of windows would fix it , it has got a little better but it still happens which is odd and I am thinking the card is faulty but it runs timespy fine lol

geordiejc · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:51

could afterburner be conflicting with wattman ? or some other 3rd party s/w?