GTX 660 TI Bottleneck

Razr777

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I recently got my Palit GTX 660 Ti, and after testing it for a couple of hours, there is a lot of stuttering, lag spikes, and major frame drop on every games that I played.

In before, I used to have a gtx 750 ti and it runs fine and smooth on high to very high textures, but not on the 660 Ti. I can only play smoothly on medium textures. Does it have something to do with the memory bandwidth of the card? or does my cpu bottleneck the card?

On Borderlands the pre sequel, I can only play on medium textures with medium view distance.

On ARMA III there is a major stuttering, lag spikes and frame drops, on standard preset

Most of the time the gpu load/usage is only around 40-ish, while the cpu is at constant 90s.

System Specs:

Operating System Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.80GHz

RAM 6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. P7H55-M LX/USB3 (LGA1156)

Graphics Standard Non Pnp Monitor (1680x1050@59Hz)

2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti (Palit Microsystems)

Storage 465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 ATA Device (SATA)

74GB Seagate ST380215AS ATA Device (SATA)
 
Solution
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Razr777

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Or could it be my monitor? since the gtx 660 ti doesn't support vga port, I ended up using the DVI-I to VGA converter which made my monitor become Generic Non Pnp.
 

Razr777

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But my i5 is quite ancient, and it is not overclocked, what i5 did you use previously?

The adapter is unbranded, bought it off from local electronic store, and I have also tried to connect my pc to HDTV with HDMI and got the same result, still stuttering and frame drops everywhere. And I also noticed the loading times took quiet some time to load compared to my previous specs with gtx 750 ti and even some of the games I have won't even load.

Will connecting my pc with a DVI-D cables solves it?

btw, my PSU is FSP Hexa 500 W
 

Razr777

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Thank you, and btw I got rid of the lagging and frame drop issues by swapping the hdd cables. But now I'm experiencing stuttering, both audio and visual. Thanks anyway for responding :)
 


Lol. Strange though. Anyhow, good to know ur problem is resolved