Is my 1080ti hitting a bottleneck?

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Dan Bilawchuk

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I just recently purchased a new Aorus 1080ti graphics card for two reasons. One, to hit better FPS in games and two, to mine crypto currency. When I plugged in the card and downloaded all the latest drivers I then tested it out in games like world of warcraft and overwatch and found that my frame rate really didn't increase much if at all running just shy of 60fps. When I put it to the mining challenge it fared pretty good compared the the gtx760 but no where near what others with the same card reported finding myself at only around 7-800 h/s while mining Bytecoin when others report almost 1500. I then began to think that something in my system is slowing it down.

The system specs are as follows:
AMD 8150x processor overclocked to 4846mhz
16gb DDR3 1600 MHz
1 500gb HDD
1 1tb HDD
Asus M5A99X EVO Motherboard
Th entire system is watercooled including RAM with no temps reaching over 42 degrees
 
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Weak obsolete cpu paired with the top of the range current gpu. At least for gaming that is a bad combination, not so sure about mining. At 4K the bottleneck won’t be as big but at 1080p/1440p you have a huge cpu bottleneck.
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Update the bios of your motherboard within bios.
Don't use windows to update

Use DDU uninstaller to remove all graphics drivers and reinstall the latest from NVIDIA.com

Reinstall the mining app

Restart windows

Is the oc of the CPU stable? While running a game, does the frequency drop?

Run 3dmark basic edition, click on compare result online and post the address of your browser.
 
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bigpinkdragon286

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The first thing that strikes me as out of place is seeing an 8150 CPU that clocks stably over 4.8 GHz, much less at 42 degrees.

Any way you slice it though, first gen Zambezi cores have terrible performance. The only real desktop replacement from AMD for the same platform, Vishera, found in the 8350 CPUs, while better, is still going to bottleneck that graphics card.
 
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Overwatch and world of warcraft are quite cpu intensive, which is why you won't have noticed much of a difference.
 
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Dan Bilawchuk

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it sounds like I need a new cpu which means new everything else other than HDD if i go to ryzen 7 1700x.
I'll just order that since everything is so out of date. I'll update when it arrives

 
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Dan Bilawchuk

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This is what I have planned.
Motherboard: MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370
Ram: G.SKILL F4-3200C16D-16GTZR Trident Z RGB Series 32GB, 288-Pin SDRAM DDR4-3200MHz (PC4 25600)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Processor
CPU waterblock: EKWB EK-Supremacy EVO AMD (Nickel)
SSD: SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 1TB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6E1T0BW
 
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madmatt30

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For mining the gpu makes NO difference at all.
For gpu ?? For gaming just go with a ryzen 1600 or an i5 8400.

For anything apart from heavily threaded productivity the ryzen 7 is a waste of money.

A decent b350 board is also fine.

If you're not running 4k btw you wasted an awful lot of money on a 1080ti.

A 1070ti would have performed virtually identically for both gaming & mining.
 
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Dan Bilawchuk

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my display is 3440 x 1440, 100 Hz. also I mine with the cpu as well. Those processors will perform about half as good. also ive been playing in 2560x1080 because of the lack of a good graphics card
 
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^ my phone auto corrected
The top line ahould have read

'For mining the 'cpu' makes NO difference at all'

The rest stands , for gaming the 1700x is no better than an i5 8400 or a ryzen 1600.

& Thats coming from a ryzen 7@4.1 ghz owner.

But yes at 1440p wide-screen the 1080ti was a good choice.

A 1700x is a waste of your money though plain & simple
 
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Nobody mines on their CPU and your CPU has no impact on your mining. The last mining system I built had three Vega 64 cards and a cheap Skylake Celeron processor. It has a huge impact on your games though as FX is a very poor processor to pair with a GTX 1080 Ti. FX will bottleneck that card badly in games. If this is a gaming/mining PC, I would rebuild on either Ryzen or Core i5.

Don't buy Ryzen 7 for gaming unless you are doing things like content creation. The 8th gen Core i5 chips cost less and outperform Ryzen 7 in games. The best gaming processors right now are the i5 8600k and the i5 8400k. Ryzen 5 is about 10% slower but cheaper to build.
 
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