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April 24, 2014 6:52:08 PM

My system score ( Gtx 770 WIndforce / i5 4570 ) On 3d mark dropped drastically!

Old Firestrike- 6860
New Firestrike- 5630

Old Cloudgate- 16484
New Cloudgate- 9763

Ice Storm Old- 145155
Ice storm New- 14679

What could have caused this? I restarted and ran it a couple of times. I'm in need of assistance!

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April 24, 2014 6:55:24 PM

Either a change in 3d mark or a change in your pc
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April 24, 2014 6:56:15 PM

The latest Nvidia and AMD graphics cards have clock rates subject to temperature. It might be warmer today than last time you benchmarked.
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April 24, 2014 7:03:27 PM

damric said:
The latest Nvidia and AMD graphics cards have clock rates subject to temperature. It might be warmer today than last time you benchmarked.


Its possible, but I don't see a few degrees pulling my scores down so much; the gpu is about 3 weeks old, could it have a defect?
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April 24, 2014 7:04:49 PM

Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?
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April 24, 2014 7:08:32 PM

damric said:
Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?


I gave the card a mild overclock a few days ago without any high temps or volt increases, but I did crash it once with too high of a core clock. The only thing I could conjecture would be that since the card is "Factory OC" that my resetting to base actually pulled the performance down, but GPU-Z says otherwise. I cant figure out if it's a bottleneck elsewhere or GPU flaw. What do you think?
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April 24, 2014 7:13:50 PM

Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?


I gave the card a mild overclock a few days ago without any high temps or volt increases, but I did crash it once with too high of a core clock. The only thing I could conjecture would be that since the card is "Factory OC" that my resetting to base actually pulled the performance down, but GPU-Z says otherwise. I cant figure out if it's a bottleneck elsewhere or GPU flaw. What do you think?


Sometimes if you clock your VRAM too far, instead of crashing it will just get errors and lower performance. I'd test your overclock settings over again from scratch and be sure to start with the Core frequency, and when that is stabilized, then move on to the VRAM. But there are many other factors yet to be explored. I'm guessing you are learning to overclock/bench?

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April 24, 2014 7:17:08 PM

damric said:
Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?


I gave the card a mild overclock a few days ago without any high temps or volt increases, but I did crash it once with too high of a core clock. The only thing I could conjecture would be that since the card is "Factory OC" that my resetting to base actually pulled the performance down, but GPU-Z says otherwise. I cant figure out if it's a bottleneck elsewhere or GPU flaw. What do you think?


Sometimes if you clock your VRAM too far, instead of crashing it will just get errors and lower performance. I'd test your overclock settings over again from scratch and be sure to start with the Core frequency, and when that is stabilized, then move on to the VRAM. But there are many other factors yet to be explored. I'm guessing you are learning to overclock/bench?



Yes, but I honestly don't want to overclock this card anymore. If there are errors present, how could I clear them? Also, I have a slight feeling that Windows may be bottle necking the performance with some powersaving feature...
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April 24, 2014 7:21:08 PM

Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?


I gave the card a mild overclock a few days ago without any high temps or volt increases, but I did crash it once with too high of a core clock. The only thing I could conjecture would be that since the card is "Factory OC" that my resetting to base actually pulled the performance down, but GPU-Z says otherwise. I cant figure out if it's a bottleneck elsewhere or GPU flaw. What do you think?


Sometimes if you clock your VRAM too far, instead of crashing it will just get errors and lower performance. I'd test your overclock settings over again from scratch and be sure to start with the Core frequency, and when that is stabilized, then move on to the VRAM. But there are many other factors yet to be explored. I'm guessing you are learning to overclock/bench?



Yes, but I honestly don't want to overclock this card anymore. If there are errors present, how could I clear them? Also, I have a slight feeling that Windows may be bottle necking the performance with some powersaving feature...


Just leave the GPU at stock clocks for now. If you are unsure what you might have borked up in your BIOS, just Clear CMOS: it's like a magic eraser that forgives you. Then go into windows power management and put everything in high performance mode. Now go back and start tweaking clocks to get those high scores. Don't be afraid to overclock, it's fun, and you learn stuff.

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April 24, 2014 7:24:04 PM

damric said:
Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Henri3794 said:
damric said:
Not likely a defect. Have you been messing with your clocks at all or any power saving features or hyper threading?


I gave the card a mild overclock a few days ago without any high temps or volt increases, but I did crash it once with too high of a core clock. The only thing I could conjecture would be that since the card is "Factory OC" that my resetting to base actually pulled the performance down, but GPU-Z says otherwise. I cant figure out if it's a bottleneck elsewhere or GPU flaw. What do you think?


Sometimes if you clock your VRAM too far, instead of crashing it will just get errors and lower performance. I'd test your overclock settings over again from scratch and be sure to start with the Core frequency, and when that is stabilized, then move on to the VRAM. But there are many other factors yet to be explored. I'm guessing you are learning to overclock/bench?



Yes, but I honestly don't want to overclock this card anymore. If there are errors present, how could I clear them? Also, I have a slight feeling that Windows may be bottle necking the performance with some powersaving feature...


Just leave the GPU at stock clocks for now. If you are unsure what you might have borked up in your BIOS, just Clear CMOS: it's like a magic eraser that forgives you. Then go into windows power management and put everything in high performance mode. Now go back and start tweaking clocks to get those high scores. Don't be afraid to overclock, it's fun, and you learn stuff.



I think that will be the answer to all of my problems. lol
If you can tell me how to easily reset my CMOS you've earned my respect and a solved question!
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April 24, 2014 7:25:17 PM

Which motherboard specifically? Post the model # and I will race you to find it in the owner's manual.
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April 24, 2014 7:29:30 PM

There is a jumper that you short on the bottom right side next to the sata connectors. Power down and unplug first. Then short it out for a second. Found that on page 10 and 11 of your manual :) 
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April 24, 2014 7:31:46 PM

damric said:
There is a jumper that you short on the bottom right side next to the sata connectors. Power down and unplug first. Then short it out for a second. Found that on page 10 and 11 of your manual :) 


Totally unplug the PSU and use a piece of metal to touch the connection? No battery removal either?
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April 24, 2014 7:32:59 PM

damric said:
There is a jumper that you short on the bottom right side next to the sata connectors. Power down and unplug first. Then short it out for a second. Found that on page 10 and 11 of your manual :) 


You consulted the manual. Your ambition makes me feel like an incapacitated fool, but thanks, man!
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April 24, 2014 7:34:03 PM

If there was no jumper then you would have to remove the battery. Some mobos have a button you can press. There might be a piece of plastic on some jumpers you might need to change from like 1-2 to 2-3, or it might just be some prongs. Short it, just make sure it's off first.
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April 24, 2014 7:35:59 PM

damric said:
If there was no jumper then you would have to remove the battery. Some mobos have a button you can press. There might be a piece of plastic on some jumpers you might need to change from like 1-2 to 2-3, or it might just be some prongs. Short it, just make sure it's off first.


Yup, looks easy enough. Thanks a bunch, man. I'll get back to you later and let you know how it goes!
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April 24, 2014 8:04:50 PM

damric said:
If there was no jumper then you would have to remove the battery. Some mobos have a button you can press. There might be a piece of plastic on some jumpers you might need to change from like 1-2 to 2-3, or it might just be some prongs. Short it, just make sure it's off first.


Back up and running. You made my week, sir.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2943346?
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April 24, 2014 8:14:34 PM



Thanks. One more thing; do you see how we have nearly identical RAM but yours is running at 800 Mhz while mine 667? Why is that? Did you change it to run at full speed in your BIOS?
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April 24, 2014 8:18:21 PM

Futuremark is just reading the JEDEC specs on the ram. Mine is actually clocked at DDR3-2400CL10. My overclocks are dialed into my BIOS, everything manually. Unfortunately for you, I'm strictly an AMD CPU overclocker and I know just about nothing about clocking intel chips. I learned most of my stuff on techpowerup and overclock.net forums. I would make accounts there too :) 
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April 24, 2014 8:20:55 PM

damric said:
Futuremark is just reading the JEDEC specs on the ram. Mine is actually clocked at DDR3-2400CL10. My overclocks are dialed into my BIOS, everything manually. Unfortunately for you, I'm strictly an AMD CPU overclocker and I know just about nothing about clocking intel chips. I learned most of my stuff on techpowerup and overclock.net forums. I would make accounts there too :) 


Yeah, at the time i put this together, I couldn't scrape together the cash for a K series intel cpu, so mine isn't overclockable; but from what i've heard it's plents capable. I wouldn't be surprised if I go with an unlock 8+ core CPU next time around. Anyway, thanks again, man.
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