GTX 780 Significant Performance Decrease

plus10charisma

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So starting a 1-2 months ago I've noticed a significant decrease in performance in my GTX 780... Here's my unigine heaven benchmark 4.0 I did today...

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It said it was running at 1202 clock

I'm pretty sure that's less than the ideal performance for the card, and I've only bought it less than a year ago. I recently tried putting it in the second PCI slot and noticed no difference so I know that's not the problem. I'm pretty sure GPU performance isn't suppose to decrease this quickly =(


Specs
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 33 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 (CPUSocket) 39 °C
Graphics
Philips FTV (1920x1080@60Hz)
ASUS VS228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
DELL 1703FP (1280x1024@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 (ASRock)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (EVGA) 45 °C
Storage
111GB Samsung SSD 840 Series ATA Device (SSD) 32 °C
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD2002FAEX-007BA0 ATA Device (SATA) 35 °C
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS124 C ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

I'm also running a 700w Xtreme Gear Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready

I've tried benchmarking on a single monitor, but I get the same unsatisfactory results =(.

Here are my NVIDIA Control Panel Settings

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I also have EVGA Precision running but I've only adjusted the fan curve slightly.

So can anyone help me I identify my problem, it's kind of frustrating feeling that I'm not getting the full potential performance out of my GPU...
 

plus10charisma

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I think I found the problem. My psu is throttling my gpu. Though 700w should be sufficient I think I just have a crappy brand that has degraded over the years. When I run stress tests using furmark or MSI Kombuster it says the power is throttling it so I'm probably just gonna buy another power supply.