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GTX 660 underperforming on CS GO.

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November 13, 2013 5:17:51 PM

Hey everyone! I need some help with something:

First off here are my specs:
i5-750 @ 3.6GHz
ASUS GTX 660 OC
8GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz

I play CS GO competitively, and maintaining a high framerate (optimal is 250+) is essential to performing consistently. I play CS GO on all low settings (always have) and at 1280x960. My GTX 660 should, theoretically, be able to pull in 250+ fps at all times at this resolution and at all low settings. However, it doesn't (hovers around 120-160).

I use EVGA precision to monitor my GPU speed, heat, and fan speed, all are fine except the GPU speed. My temps never go above 40C, as with my CPU, yet the clock speed never hits my OC'd speed of 1165MHz, but stays around 832MHz.

In BF4, however, I run it fine and it reaches its peak of 1165MHz constantly. How can I get it to remain constant @ 1165MHz at 1280x960 so it is performing at its max capacity?

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November 13, 2013 5:24:17 PM

Try Updating your drivers if they are up to date use the Beta drivers because CSGO has had some troubles with the old drivers
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November 13, 2013 5:27:43 PM

C1intfunwood said:
Try Updating your drivers if they are up to date use the Beta drivers because CSGO has had some troubles with the old drivers


All drivers are up to date. Thanks though!

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November 13, 2013 5:34:36 PM

What kind of monitor do you have that displays 250 fps? I thought 120fps was the max for LCD monitors.
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November 13, 2013 5:43:45 PM

kulmnar said:
What kind of monitor do you have that displays 250 fps? I thought 120fps was the max for LCD monitors.



I should have cleared this up earlier as I knew there would be the usual "you can't see above 60 fps" talk.


Yes, it's true, you cannot distinguish above 60 frames. However, ask any long time CS player if they noticed a different when playing @ 60 vs 300 constant on CSS, they would tell you immediately. There's a distinguishable "lag/delay" with the mouse movement when you get used to playing at a very high framerate.

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November 13, 2013 6:46:59 PM

Well i often see people playing CS want to play at 250fps. Anyway lowering the resolution will not guarantee fps increase. When lowering the resolution more cpu become a factor. In some cases lowering the resolution does not increase the frame rates because the gpu being bottleneck by the cpu. Other problems could be optimization. Also with gpu boost thing some gamescthat are lightvon gpu will make the gpu operate at much lower clock than guaranteed based clock. At the very leastyou can force the gpu to stay at it's guranteed based clock (not the boost clock) by choosing maximum performance instead of adaptive (not to be confused with adaptive v-sync).
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November 13, 2013 7:15:37 PM

Its not your Video card, its combination of your CPU and Memory.
i5 is ok for mid grade gaming, and 8 gigs of memory is not enough also you have take your hard drive in to account.

Upgrade to i7-4770 and min of 12Gbs ram you will see a huge performance increase. See games now a days are CPU dependent vs GPU dependent.
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November 14, 2013 9:01:58 AM

iampein said:
kulmnar said:
What kind of monitor do you have that displays 250 fps? I thought 120fps was the max for LCD monitors.



I should have cleared this up earlier as I knew there would be the usual "you can't see above 60 fps" talk.


Yes, it's true, you cannot distinguish above 60 frames. However, ask any long time CS player if they noticed a different when playing @ 60 vs 300 constant on CSS, they would tell you immediately. There's a distinguishable "lag/delay" with the mouse movement when you get used to playing at a very high framerate.



I also need to re-clarify my question: I didn't say you couldn't notice the difference, I asked if you had an LCD monitor that displayed 250 FPS.

If you have a monitor that can display 250 FPS, then yes you can see the difference (I know). I asked if you had a monitor that can display 250 FPS, not if earthlings could see the difference.
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