Decrease in performance after GPU & PSU upgrade??? pls help

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

So, I've been playing games with a shitty prebuilt for 1 year now, So I decided to upgrade the gpu to get better pefromance.
I bought the Zotac Gtx 1060 3Gb Mini and a crosair 550VS. Then I shoved both in there than Tried out some games...

And I noticed that I get lags in Gta5 If I go fast with a car, or when I'm flying in a plane and that my PC hovers around 40-50 fps no matter what.
I even tried Highest settings, Lowest settings and the Fps kept being around 40-50fps. Like even on my old card I was getting around 80fps. I've tried this in Watch Dogs 2 and Also Ass Ass asin's creed syndicate. It was the same thing for all of these games. 40-50fps on all of em.

So, I contacted Nvidia support to see what's going on and they gave some ">Tips and tried troubleshooting" Stuff Like changing the 3D settings in the Nvidia Control Panel and Creating a new Windows user...

For some Reason When I play The cpu is on 100% usage and graphics card is around 50%-60%, But Temps are all fine though

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

Sounds like your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU.

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

I've googled it multiple times and many people said That it Shouldn't bottleneck. I also watched a video with both of these components and it didn't bottleneck :/

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

IF the CPU is at 100%, and the GPU is at like 50%, the CPU is preventing the GPU from working as hard as it can.
It could be other background software also working on the CPU using up it's processing power possibly.

rgd1101 · Jun 19, 2017

What is your full system spec?

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

Yes, But I literally closed everything in system tray and double checked the task manager (Inside a new user) to see if anything was wrong :C .
I saw no applications running in the background though, and I was confused myself.

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

rgd1101 :

Updated it, check above

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

Zotac Gtx 1060 3gb Mini
crosair 550vs
1*8Gb Of ram 1600-ddr3
i5 4460 3.2GHz
1TB hdd 7200rpm
more info here
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04625128

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

xdlol696969 :

Yeah, GTA5 will be bottlenecked (somewhat) by that CPU, possibly only have 8gbs of ram isn't helping either.

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

So, should I get a new Cpu? will it even fit in that motherboard? and how much more ram do i need? ://////

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

I don't get what a socket type would is? Socket type: LGA 1150 (Socket-H3) <
can I still choose other cpus than the ones that were listed, because I got a new psu?
I've never done this, please note that you're talking to a beginner.

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

Update the BIOS to the latest version, should be easy with an HP.
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#k=24&sort=-clock&s=13&X=992,341046
From that list it certainly seems like any Haswell lga 1150 CPU will work.
Don't get the K CPUs though, because they don't come with a cooler, and you'll need a new/better CPU cooler than what you're using currently.

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

well cheers mate!

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

Can you actually still explain to me why I was used to getting 80fps in the older setup and 40-50fps now?

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

I don't know what your older setup was.

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

oh woops, by older setup I meant a much worse psu and an r7 240 2gb which was shit, yet I had more fps in gta5.

James Mason · Jun 19, 2017

Did reinstall windows or remove the old AMD drivers?

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

xdlol696969 · Jun 19, 2017

James Mason :

Did reinstall windows or remove the old AMD drivers?

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

I've tried that 3 times I uninstalled both amd and nvidia drivers, and did make a new Windows user to try it.
it was the same.

Decrease in performance after GPU & PSU upgrade??? pls help

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