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HALP! Gaming PC under-performing

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April 28, 2013 1:24:07 PM

I'm a pretty experienced PC builder, and I am stumped.
Specs are:
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 v1.3 i7 2600K 16 GB DDR3 MSi 650 Ti Win7 64
Got all the MB drivers from the Gigabyte site and the latest video drivers form the Nvidia site.
3dmark is scoring like 5 times lower than computers with similar builds.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/580312

Very much appreciate any advice.

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a c 466 4 Gaming
April 28, 2013 1:29:18 PM

Do you have a problem when running games? Low frame rates? The 650ti is a good card but it isn't going to play every game at high settings at 1080p. Certainly not ultra settings either.
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April 28, 2013 1:29:30 PM

Agentcooper0115 said:
I'm a pretty experienced PC builder, and I am stumped.
Specs are:
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 v1.3 i7 2600K 16 GB DDR3 MSi 650 Ti Win7 64
Got all the MB drivers from the Gigabyte site and the latest video drivers form the Nvidia site.
3dmark is scoring like 5 times lower than computers with similar builds.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/580312




Very much appreciate any advice.


Do you overclock?

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April 28, 2013 1:53:15 PM

tiny voices said:
Do you have a problem when running games? Low frame rates? The 650ti is a good card but it isn't going to play every game at high settings at 1080p. Certainly not ultra settings either.


Yeh, games run but waaaay worse than they should. Really poor FPS.
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a c 466 4 Gaming
April 28, 2013 1:54:28 PM

What settings in what games at what resolution don't run right?
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April 28, 2013 1:54:58 PM

maxalge said:
Agentcooper0115 said:
I'm a pretty experienced PC builder, and I am stumped.
Specs are:
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 v1.3 i7 2600K 16 GB DDR3 MSi 650 Ti Win7 64
Got all the MB drivers from the Gigabyte site and the latest video drivers form the Nvidia site.
3dmark is scoring like 5 times lower than computers with similar builds.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/580312




Very much appreciate any advice.


Do you overclock?



No. I might at some point, but I want to solve the problem of it not performing up to it's nominal level before messing with any of that.
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April 28, 2013 1:59:03 PM

tiny voices said:
What settings in what games at what resolution don't run right?


I've been testing with Borderlands 2 which should run just fine on this rig at my monitors native res of 1680x1050, but even when I drop it down to something like 1280x960 it's pretty poor. That's with the default setup in terms of detail, FSAA, shadows, etc.

We're talking 15FPSish
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a c 466 4 Gaming
April 28, 2013 2:04:51 PM

What settings are you playing at?
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April 28, 2013 2:10:41 PM

tiny voices said:
What settings are you playing at?


Fulscreen
Vsynch off
Framerate unlmited
Mute audio on focus loss on
autodetect settings off
1280x960
Ambient Occlusion on
Depth of field on
Anisotropic filtering 16x
Bullet Decals high
Foliage Distance far
texture quality high
game detail high
View distance high
Physx Effects medium
FXAA on
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a c 466 4 Gaming
April 28, 2013 2:13:16 PM

Turn off physX, turn on v-sync, set every settings to medium at your native resolution and tell me what happens.

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April 28, 2013 3:10:57 PM

tiny voices said:
Turn off physX, turn on v-sync, set every settings to medium at your native resolution and tell me what happens.




Still terrible. You can't turn Physx off in BL2 Iguess, but I turned it to low (as low as it goes). Still 15 FPS or worse.

Thanks for the help.


Settings:

Fulscreen
Vsynch on
Framerate unlmited
Mute audio on focus loss on
autodetect settings off
1680x1050
Ambient Occlusion off
Depth of field off
Anisotropic filtering 16x
Bullet Decals normal
Foliage Distance near
texture quality medium
game detail medium
View distance medium
Physx Effects low
FXAA off
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a b 4 Gaming
April 28, 2013 3:56:33 PM

Agentcooper0115 said:
tiny voices said:
Turn off physX, turn on v-sync, set every settings to medium at your native resolution and tell me what happens.




Still terrible. You can't turn Physx off in BL2 Iguess, but I turned it to low (as low as it goes). Still 15 FPS or worse.

Thanks for the help.


Settings:

Fulscreen
Vsynch on
Framerate unlmited
Mute audio on focus loss on
autodetect settings off
1680x1050
Ambient Occlusion off
Depth of field off
Anisotropic filtering 16x
Bullet Decals normal
Foliage Distance near
texture quality medium
game detail medium
View distance medium
Physx Effects low
FXAA off



Couple of things:

Change power options to high performance, PCI Express Link State Power Management - set to disable.

Uninstall any of the "extra" gigabyte software not relating to actual important mobo functions.

Make sure you have direct x updated.

Make sure you have newest mobo bios.

Make sure your hard drives are not having any issues, run check disk.


Run ram testing software, and make sure its set to the proper speed, voltage etc

If your mobo has built in graphics have it disabled and chosen first boot device to PEG.

Get into safe mode, uninstall all graphics drivers, then run a driver cleaner to get rid of anything, and re-install.



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