Sudden FPS drops on all games. From 200fps to 10
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The fan is definitely running.
Just got hold of a 550w Superflower PSU to try. It's a friends so will have to give it back but hopefully it can rule out whether the PSU is the problem or not.
Same problem with this PSU.
What I have noticed is a direct correlation with power usage on HWMonitor and the fps I am getting. It's sticking at 25-30 percent power and when it ramps to 100% I start to get the frames I am used to.
What I have noticed is a direct correlation with power usage on HWMonitor and the fps I am getting. It's sticking at 25-30 percent power and when it ramps to 100% I start to get the frames I am used to.
Tried the 1080 on a different computer now.
It seems to be running perfectly fine.
I've now put a 1060 into my machine and a different power supply and getting the same issues.
I find it hard to believe that this power supply (550w Superflower) can't power a 1060 or a 1080.
The power usage according to HWmonitor is 14 percent even when on intensive GPU games.
So I'm still no further to finding out what on earth is going wrong.
It seems to be running perfectly fine.
I've now put a 1060 into my machine and a different power supply and getting the same issues.
I find it hard to believe that this power supply (550w Superflower) can't power a 1060 or a 1080.
The power usage according to HWmonitor is 14 percent even when on intensive GPU games.
So I'm still no further to finding out what on earth is going wrong.
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Roll your nvidia driver back from 388.13 to 388.00.
And stop running any gpu power monitoring software.
You're welcome
https://forums.geforce.com/forums/board/33/
And stop running any gpu power monitoring software.
You're welcome
https://forums.geforce.com/forums/board/33/
Soldato
Have you checked your CPU temperature whilst gaming?
Might be worth a reinstall of windows too.
Also, maybe try running with one stick of ram and then the other.
Might be worth a reinstall of windows too.
Also, maybe try running with one stick of ram and then the other.
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I've not seen it mentioned but maybe it is to do with gpu usage fluctuation caused by the gpu power management setting that down clocks the gpu cores if the load is not high enough. Go into nvidia control panel and in manage 3d settings, set power management mode to prefer max performance. Probably not it but it's worth a try.
I forgot to tell you all what happened.
So the answer was in front of my face and I mentioned in this thread.
The CPU was constantly locked at 800mhz - hence the massive drops in performance.
The culprit was: Intel Thermal Monitor
Well, the actual culprit was my cooler was too tight on the CPU so it was tripping out the thermal monitor.
When this happens, it forces the cpu down to 800mhz.
I disabled it at first and then rejigged my CPU heatsink.
All fine now and in fact better than ever. Which makes a hell of a lot of sense now because I must have been having a minor performance hits thanks to the throttling.
Hope this thread helps to contribute to someone else sorting out their own PC in the future.
So the answer was in front of my face and I mentioned in this thread.
The CPU was constantly locked at 800mhz - hence the massive drops in performance.
The culprit was: Intel Thermal Monitor
Well, the actual culprit was my cooler was too tight on the CPU so it was tripping out the thermal monitor.
When this happens, it forces the cpu down to 800mhz.
I disabled it at first and then rejigged my CPU heatsink.
All fine now and in fact better than ever. Which makes a hell of a lot of sense now because I must have been having a minor performance hits thanks to the throttling.
Hope this thread helps to contribute to someone else sorting out their own PC in the future.