All of my games are getting low fps (very choppy), my system is... good. Help is appreciated.

JwB_99 · Feb 8, 2015

System specs:

x99 Deluxe
GTX980 water cooled with an EK block (working great)
Corsair 1200i psu
i7 5960x
Corsair Dominator 2800 platinum
XSPC water cooled system with a d5 pump going to the cpu & gpu
asus vg248qe
windows 8.1 pro (everything up to date).

I've double checked that all of my drivers are up to date multiple times recently. I reinstalled steam & origin & all of the games local files were deleted and redownloaded.

I'm at a loss...

Ok so the problem is very simple. I play Dying Light, BF4, and a bunch of other games including Far Cry 4... The FPS are NOT what I expected. As in, it looks like a slideshow - extremely choppy.

I'm not really sure where to begin other than the info about my PC I provided you. If anyone would like to help me configure this system I would be in your debt.

Thank you,
me

Nerdboy · Feb 8, 2015

Cpu speeds ? With a. Slow cpu you can bottle neck that gpu very easily.

Dewey76207 · Feb 8, 2015

What do you have open? Close any background tasks. Also make sure your airflow is good in the case, that might throttle the cpu.

ArchitSahu · Feb 8, 2015

Nerdboy :

Thats an Intel i7 5960x, I am pretty sure it won' bottleneck his system, it is very recent and is extremely good.

Nerdboy · Feb 8, 2015

Dewey a 3.0ghz intel cpu will for sure bottle neck his card.

Dewey76207 · Feb 9, 2015

Nerdboy :

Time to overclock.

Nerdboy · Feb 9, 2015

(I take no responsibility for damage to any component from you overclocking) yes overclocking will be the easiest and cheapest solution. Getting the cpu to about 4.0ghz should get rid of the bottle neck and you will see an increase in frames. And archit the cpu may be fairly new but it can still bottle neck a gpu very easily now days. This is why amd relaeased a cpu with a stock clock of 20/25 instead of the default 16, so that way the new cpu can run the gpu without bottle neck easier.

Dewey76207 · Feb 9, 2015

Look at a video on how to overclock and remember depending on the motherboard it may take a while, plus harm.

Nerdboy · Feb 9, 2015

Videos don't do that much just the basics, I learned what I know from trial and error. Beware tho that overclocking does increase the temps on your cpu!

Dewey76207 · Feb 9, 2015

Nerdboy :

Yeah, but sometimes that's all you need, plus he has a water cooler, he's not overclocking an AMD CPU/APU.

Nerdboy · Feb 9, 2015

I'd prefer to overclock an amd over an intel anyday. The Intels I have always had issues with and are harder to get stable. My amd fx has hit 5.0ghz easy from overclocking way easier then trying to get an intel to 5.0ghz

Dewey76207 · Feb 9, 2015

Nerdboy :

Yeah, but I was talking about power and heat wise. They are easier to overclock though.

Nerdboy · Feb 9, 2015

Yes but also notice how amd has higher oc speeds then intel tho

smackers_12 · Feb 9, 2015

Are you guys insane? Its not going to be a bottlenecking problem with a 5960x. It is literally the best consumer cpu you can buy and clockspeed is not the only indication of the power and speed of the cpu.

ArchitSahu · Feb 9, 2015

smackers_12, that's what I told Nerdboy, but he insisting on it being a bottlenecking. It is literally the best CPU right now on the market.

How he got the idea that it is a bottleneck is beyond my mind..

smackers_12 · Feb 9, 2015

ArchitSahu :

Anyway, there is a problem and its not bottlnecking so how about we try and solve the problem.

gamerk316 · Feb 9, 2015

Two things come to mind, Temperature, and the PSU. What temps are you getting, and what is the model PSU you are using?

ArchitSahu · Feb 10, 2015

gamerk316 :

Yea, that's what first came to my mind. PSU or Temperature.

Vynavill · Feb 10, 2015

I kinda can't stop laughing at the "5960x bottleneck" argument...

Anyways, the OP stated he has a corsair 1200i PSU in the opening statement. I'm not much into those, but unless there's something very wrong with that unit, it shouldn't be the cause of these issues. I'd wait for the OP to state his temperature readings.

ArchitSahu · Feb 10, 2015

Vynavill :

If its not the temperature, I think it would be the PSU. I can't think of anything else, can you?

smackers_12 · Feb 10, 2015

ArchitSahu :

Potentially if its not one of those two it could be a dud graphics card (unlikely) or a driver issue

Vynavill · Feb 10, 2015

I kinda formulated that statement badly, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say it can't be the PSU at all; what I meant to say was something along the lines of smackers'.

The 1200i shouldn't be a bad unit (although I'm not that knowledgeable in power supplies, so I might very well be wrong), but unless it's a dud or the OP's airflow is literally pushing the radiator's heat into it, it's unlikely it's the issue, or at least unlikely compared to a thermal throttling case.

As a side note, it would be nice to know the load levels along the temperatures, just in case. Checking for up to date drivers is the thing to do, but if for any known or unknown reason those drivers are broken (in general or for the 980 in particular), a low load level could signal that. It could be useful to clean them up through DDU and roll back to the previous revision, for starters.

Undying89 · Feb 10, 2015

Well guys even 5960x is a monster it runs at 3Ghz while for instance 4790k runs at 4.4ghz. Games a singe-threaded, core clock is still the king.

But yeah, 1000$ CPU bottlenecking is just silly.

All of my games are getting low fps (very choppy), my system is... good. Help is appreciated.

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