Getting low FPS for seemingly no reason.

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spartan barton

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First off my hardware specs.
3770K @ 4.6GHZ liquid cooled
16GB of corsair ram 1600mhz
1tb WD Black
120gb Samsung SSD
2X GTX 780ti MSI in SLI
1000w PSU 80plus platinum.
WIN 8 64

I'm getting suspiciously low fps in games like BF4 and Black Flag. I'm playing @ 1080p on a VG248QE. I had similar issues on my 7990. Switched it out and I'm still having the same problems. I tried re-installing windows. I really dont know what it could be. I was wondering if the issues could possibly be being caused by my motherboard?
 
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Random drops below 30fps. Its really dependent on which map. Flood Zone seems to be the worst. I do have the most up to date drivers for the cards. Also I have been using afterburner to monitor my GPU temps. I currently have everything in a Corsair 600T and its as well ventilated as possible. Originally I thought it might be a power consumption issue but from everything I've read I should be fine in that area.
 
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I had what sounds to be a similar problem on my i7/GTX 670 system. Turned out to be core parking causing cpu spikes. Only really happened in BF4 for me. Once disabled all was well. I take it with 2 x GTX 780ti is SLI @ 1080p your getting close or at 200 fps with dips to 30 fps every few seconds or so.

Here's some info and how to disable it....
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-disable-core-parking-windows
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=229080

For a better idea what's going on you should enable BF4 performance graphs
You can open the console in Battlefield 4 with the tilde key (~). Once you opened the console, you need to type the following command into the console, to enable the CPU and GPU graph:

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 1

If you want to disable the CPU and GPU benchmark display again, you will need to type the following into the console:

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 0
 
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I'm going to take a look at those graphs. I have used the unpark all cores solution before with the 7990 I was using before. (Sold the 7990 to someone who was mining) Didn't see any gains and continued to have the same issues but I'm going to give it another shot. The 780ti's do perform very well, at times I have soaring frames but just randomly drops. In AC Black Flag I noticed drops in areas of robust foliage but still I really should not be having any drops below 60fps with this set up.

Also didn' the recent updates to BF4 solve their core parking issues? Thanks for all of the information though!
 
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Oh you mean those BF4 updates that introduced sound problems on TDM or the ones before. Don't have much faith in their fixes at this time. I still have core parking switched off and it made the difference at the time. Had no issue with the beta just the final game spiking all over. Discovered core parking after looking at my CPU graphs. Disable it and have not turned it back on since. I only use the PC when gaming and it's not on 24/7 so am not worried about turning it back on even if Dice have potentially sorted their issues.

I am sure the graphs will help diagnose what's going on and whether it's CPU or GPU causing it. Once you know that you should know a particular path to investigate more.
 
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Gotchya Gotchya. I'll see what happens later today. Thanks! :D
 
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Gotchya Gotchya. I'll see what happens later today. Thanks! :D
 
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