- Jul 10, 2017
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To start my system specs are:
Motherboard ASUS Z170a
CPU intel core i7 6700k running at stock 4.0ghz with 4.2 boost
GPU Evga Gtx 1070 SC Gaming Black Edition
RAM 2 x 8 sticks of HyperX Fury 2100 16gigs Total
PSU Corsair 450watt (i think cx)
1 512gb samsung ssd
1 1tb WB blue HHD
Recently I decided to Water cool both my GPU and CPU with the EK a240 G kit. Its a custom water cooling loop that EK sells. I am very confident that it was installed correctly and had no leaks. After the install I tried to play battlegrounds and was getting very low frames like 20-30. Thinking it was just the recent update and would get better with the next, I moved to Overwatch and again got very low FPS, 30-40.
After looking at temps and different graphs on the GPU and CPU together and running some CPU and GPU benchmarks, I've found that whenever my CPU needs more resources my fps drops. When running unigine valley on ultra it was pushing upwards of 180fps, but when I started to run Prime95 at the same time the frames in Valley dropped to 30. Benchmarking my system with Passmark I noticed that my cpu was a little low but I think that it is enough to be causing my issue. (8000 ish compared to 11,000)
Initially I thought the extra fans and pump pushed my PSU over the limit, but after borrowing a second psu to hook the pump and fans too the low fps persisted. I have also reseated the Gpu, Cpu (with new thermal paste), and ram (one stick at a time in different slots) Also reinstalled the nvidia drivers, with no luck.
I'm really lost here and don't know where to start to fix this issue. I would like to avoid buying lots of parts and returning what doesn't fix it but I understand that might be the option. Right now i'm thinking it could still be the psu, or my motherboard isn't supplying enough power or the lanes to the gpu are fried. Really hoping its not the cpu....
Any Ideas would be Greatly appreciated, as I don't like having a $1800 paper weight laying around.
EDIT: I updated my Motherboard Bios and still got low FPS. Both CPU and GPU were hovering around 60-70 percent.
Motherboard ASUS Z170a
CPU intel core i7 6700k running at stock 4.0ghz with 4.2 boost
GPU Evga Gtx 1070 SC Gaming Black Edition
RAM 2 x 8 sticks of HyperX Fury 2100 16gigs Total
PSU Corsair 450watt (i think cx)
1 512gb samsung ssd
1 1tb WB blue HHD
Recently I decided to Water cool both my GPU and CPU with the EK a240 G kit. Its a custom water cooling loop that EK sells. I am very confident that it was installed correctly and had no leaks. After the install I tried to play battlegrounds and was getting very low frames like 20-30. Thinking it was just the recent update and would get better with the next, I moved to Overwatch and again got very low FPS, 30-40.
After looking at temps and different graphs on the GPU and CPU together and running some CPU and GPU benchmarks, I've found that whenever my CPU needs more resources my fps drops. When running unigine valley on ultra it was pushing upwards of 180fps, but when I started to run Prime95 at the same time the frames in Valley dropped to 30. Benchmarking my system with Passmark I noticed that my cpu was a little low but I think that it is enough to be causing my issue. (8000 ish compared to 11,000)
Initially I thought the extra fans and pump pushed my PSU over the limit, but after borrowing a second psu to hook the pump and fans too the low fps persisted. I have also reseated the Gpu, Cpu (with new thermal paste), and ram (one stick at a time in different slots) Also reinstalled the nvidia drivers, with no luck.
I'm really lost here and don't know where to start to fix this issue. I would like to avoid buying lots of parts and returning what doesn't fix it but I understand that might be the option. Right now i'm thinking it could still be the psu, or my motherboard isn't supplying enough power or the lanes to the gpu are fried. Really hoping its not the cpu....
Any Ideas would be Greatly appreciated, as I don't like having a $1800 paper weight laying around.
EDIT: I updated my Motherboard Bios and still got low FPS. Both CPU and GPU were hovering around 60-70 percent.
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