New GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 STRIX graphics card getting frame drops

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W0lf3x

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Hello, I just got a new GTX 960 4GB 3 days ago - however I'm experiencing massive frame drops. I noticed while in Rainbow Six:Siege that on recommended settings (Very high) that I get around 80fps, but out of nowhere it drops to around 27-35 fps for a quick 2 seconds or so then keeps playing at 80fps, repeat. This seems to happen no matter the graphic settings. I've overclocked my GPU and it seems to help a little but still the frame drop is pretty apparent. A friend had me test it on a few other games and even though not nearly as demanding as Siege, they still experienced some fps drop, but none as serious as on Siege. I recently switched from an AMD Radeon HD 7700, which had no problems as far as frame drop. While running ASUS GPU Tweak II and MSI Afterburner I've concluded the temps are fine, as the GPU doesn't even reach over 50C and the CPU never goes much farther than 40C. I'm not even using half of my memory in Mhz, RAM, or VRAM. I've installed and re-installed newest drivers both through Geforce Experience and manually through the website (Ensuring each time drivers were removed via. DDU). I've reinstalled games this occurs on, and even went as far as downgrading from a driver back from April 2015, and still no luck. Power management has been triple checked to ensure it's on Performance rather than power saving. All previous drivers from my Radeon HD 7700 have been removed as well to prevent problems there as well. I'm so lost, as I've tried almost every fix I've found on the internet dating back as far as 2011 with no luck at all. If anyone could help me, I would be GREATLY thankful for your input and wisdom on the subject.



Specs:
AMD A10 5800k CPU
Geforce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 STRIX OC edition
8GB RAM
550w PSU
100GB SSD (primary)
500GB HDD
 
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I think the issue might be that your GPU isn't receiving sufficient reliable power to run efficiently. You say you've overclocked it, yet, the card is already overclocked out of the box. I know my Asus Strix DirectCU 2 OC GTX980 is since yours is the OC edition, it'll already be clocked too. It's...
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Termin8rSmurf

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It's a curly one, for sure, and I'm not sure what's causing this, but I'd consider uninstalling the card, rebooting your machine, then power it down and reinstall the card again. Sometimes cards do not seat quite right, and this 'might' be your answer. IIt won't hurt to try it, and it will at least remove a possible cause if nothing else.
 
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W0lf3x

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Just got home and tried it. The fps drops are way further apart than it was before (nearly every 2-3 seconds it would drop). The other games seem to be okay, like they already were. . Could it just be my cpu is barely compatible with my gfx card, on top of it not being seated correctly?

EDIT** Just used Razor Cortex to boost my game, and I seem to be getting nearly double the fps, but still experiencing frame drops occaisionally
 
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I think the issue might be that your GPU isn't receiving sufficient reliable power to run efficiently. You say you've overclocked it, yet, the card is already overclocked out of the box. I know my Asus Strix DirectCU 2 OC GTX980 is since yours is the OC edition, it'll already be clocked too. It's possible that you've clocked it to something that requires more power than your PSU can supply.

You have one HDD, one SSD, one GPU and one CPU, so your PSU is probably somewhere close to it's limit already, then you've OC'd the GPU, which might have pushed past the output of the PSU.

Find out the power requirements for all your components, then look to see if they are higher than your PSU's optimum output. I'm thinking that is your problem.



Something else... What frequency is your RAM running at? How is it configured, I mean, Is it two sticks of 4, or one stick of 8?

Back when I used a pair of Strix DirectCU2 Top GTX680's I had some issues, which were CPU related, and I am still using the very same CPU, which was actually parking three of the cores and causing issues with some games. I used a simple utility to prevent the OS from parking the cores ever again, and that stopped the issue.

The CPU unparking tool is here... http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

And needs running only once.
 
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Anttty

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I have the same card and also had this problem. I fixed it by going into power settings and changing it to maximum performance. Hope this helps if you haven't already solved it.
 
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