EVGA 770 FTW 4GBx 2 SLI Usage Drops HELP

Smitty417

Commendable
Sep 27, 2016
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My PC:
Intel i7- 4820k @3.70GHz
Asus x79 Delux
16 gb G Skill Trident X (F3-2400C10D-16GTX)
2 x EVGA 770 FTW 4GB (SLI)
Corsair H100i
Corsair HX850 PSU
Cooler Master HAF X case


So, as of lately I have be experiencing an odd drop in fps (lasting about 1 to 2 seconds) all the way down to 3 fps from around 120-140 fps. It occurs every 40 seconds or so if I continue to play. This issue was first noticed in a Rainbow Six Siege game. It does occur in other games as well, but I will be using the R6 Siege benchmark as a constant in my trials.

My current NVIDIA GLOBAL Control Panel Settings are as follows:

-Ambient Oclusion: OFF
-Antisotropic Filtering: Application-controlled
-Antialiasing - FXAA: OFF
-Antialiasing - Gamma correction: ON
-Antialiasing - Mode: Application-controlled
-Antialiasing - Setting: Application-controlled
-Antialiasing - Transparency: OFF
-CUDA - GPU's: ALL
-DSR - Factors: OFF
-DSR - Smoothness (Grayed out): OFF
-Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
-Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single-display Performance mode
-Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
-Preferred refresh rate: Application-controlled
-SLI rendering mode: NVIDIA Recommended
-Shader Cache: ON
-Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: OFF
-Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias: ALLOW
-Texture Filtering - Quality: QUALITY
-Texture Filtering - Trilinear optimization: ON
-Thread optimization: OFF
-Tripple buffering: OFF
-Vertical sync: ADAPTIVE
-Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1

I monitored all of my PC temperatures whilst running the Rainbow Six Siege benchmark and found nothing beyond normal operating temps. (picture below).
I have done a fresh install of all of the NVIDIA drivers (excluding the NVIDIA sound drivers). Did not correct the issue.
I have tried playing with VSync on and off.
Ensured Chipset is up to date.
Defaulted my MOBO settings.
The case is not dusty nor are the GPU's clogged with dust.
Tried playing with SLI off and had good performance initially on one card and then performance dropped again.
I've been looking through forums for the past three days trying to find a resolution to this issue with no solution.

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Any help is much appreciated. Hope this format is correct as it is my first post to the forum. I will respond to any questions and responses as soon as possible. Thank you anybody that at least takes the time to read this.

~Smitty

 

Smitty417

Commendable
Sep 27, 2016
2
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1,510
Well it would seem that installing the wifi driver provided by ASUS for the x79 DELUXE caused all of these issues. I had installed the driver about a week ago and had not played any games so I did not notice the issue until recent. I simply disabled the driver and everything was working just fine. No IDEA how this caused the issue, but I'll take it.