[Solved] 50% framerate drop after reinstalling GPU

Hi folks

I just bought a new case (CM ACTS 840) today and took my old rig apart to stuff it all in there nicely. Everything booted up fine and dandy. However when i fired up some games (WoW, Eq2) i noticed a 50% framerate hit in both.

I'm running a E8400 stock, 4870 512MB, MSI p-45 Platinum, 8GB of ram.

Ive been running both the above mentioned games at 1900 x 1080 for a while now and I typically see 40 -50 fps in EQ2 at high quality and 60fps in WoW on ultra settings.

Clearly something got buggered up in the transition to the new case, but I don't even know where to look. Mainly on account that by all other indicators (device manager, catalyst control centre) everything is working fine. I've even updated to the newest version of catalyst.

Suggestions?

Sure did. Card has 2 6 pin connectors. Further as the board has no onboard graphics i dont think I would even get the fps im getting in these games if it wasnt turned on.

I'm going to check this again. I'm curious as to why power would be suspect. If the card is running does that not mean it has enough power? To put it another way, can it run on partial power?

It's possible it to run partial power. Many cards will power down instead of shutting down the system if it doesn't get enough power.

Check your memory timings. Why aren't you overclocked?

I'm not overclocked because i'm a relative newbie to this hardware game and haven't mustered up the courage.

New revelation though. I just ran cpu-z and in the mainboard tab it says my link width is x8 (max supported x 16). Could this mean there is something wrong in my bios?

temps are the same. I dont know how else to measure/address the power issue

Then let me help you. Should boot right up at 4Ghz

Clock Chip Control
Standard Clock Control
CPU Host Clock Control..................: [Enabled]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ............: 450Mhz
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) .........:100

C.I.A.2 .................................:[Disabled]


Advanced Clock Control [Press Enter]
CPU Clock Drive...........................: 800mv
PCI Express Clock Drive.................: 900mv
CPU Clock Skew (ps)....................: ops
MCH Clock Skew (ps)...................: 0ps


DRAM Performance Control
Performance Enhance...................: Standard
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.).....: Disabled
(G)MCH Frequency Latch...............: [Auto]
System Memory Multiplier ..............: 2.00D or yours may like 2.0B, one will let you set lower PL(static tRead)
Memory Frequency (Mhz) ..............: 800
DRAM Timing Selectable ................: [Manual]

Standard Timing Control
CAS Latency Time........................5
tRCD .........................................5
tRP'...........................................5
tRAS..........................................15

Advanced Timing Control
tRRD...........................................Auto
tWTR..........................................Auto
tWR............................................Auto
tRFC...........................................52
tRTP...........................................Auto
Command Rate (CMD) ....................:2

Driving Strength Profiles
Driving Strength ............................Auto

Channel A
Static tRead Value.........................:Auto, note what this is and try lower later
tRD Phase0 Adjustment...................:Auto
tRD Phase1 Adjustment...................:Auto
tRD Phase2 Adjustment .................:Auto
tRD Phase3 Adjustment..................:Auto
Trd2rd(Different Rank)....................:Auto
Twr2wr(Different Rank)...................:Auto
Twr2rd(Different Rank)...................:Auto
Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..................:Auto
Dimm1 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps
Dimm2 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps

Channel B
Static tRead Value.........................:Auto, note what this is and try lower later
tRD Phase0 Adjustment...................:Auto
tRD Phase1 Adjustment...................:Auto
tRD Phase2 Adjustment .................:Auto
tRD Phase3 Adjustment..................:Auto
Trd2rd(Different Rank)....................:Auto
Twr2wr(Different Rank)...................:Auto
Twr2rd(Different Rank)...................:Auto
Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..................:Auto
Dimm1 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps
Dimm2 Clock Skew Control...............:Auto ps

Motherboard Voltage Control
.....LLC=Enabled
CPU Vcore….……….........................:1.400v not more than 1.4v especially if you have E0 steppping
CPU Termination…..... 1.200V*.......: 1.22v
CPU PLL…………………....1.500V*.......: Normal
CPU Referen.…………....0.760V*.......: Normal

MCH/ICH
MCH Core…………….....1.100V...........: 1.26
MCH Reference….…….0.760V...........; .74 or more likely .70 or .68, set this when VTT is 1.2v, then change VTT
MCH/DRAM Ref.…......0.900V...........: Auto
ICH I/O……………….....1.500V............: Normal
ICH Core…………...……1.100V............: Normal

DRAM
DRAM Voltage ……....1.800V............: 1.9v
DRAM Termination .…0.900V............: Auto
Channel A Reference 0.900V............: Auto
Channel B Reference 0.900V............: Auto

Advanced Settings
Limit CPUID Max. to 3.....................: [Disabled]
No-Execute Memory Protect............: [Enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)................: [Disabled]
C2/C2E State Support....................: [Disabled]
x C4/C4E State Support..................: [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) ...........: [Enabled]
CPU EIST Function.........................: [Disabled]
Virtualization Technology................: [Disabled]

Integrated Peripherals
Legacy USB Storage Detect ..............[Disabled]

Post with any issues overclocking. You'll be a lot happier at 4Ghz

He already fixed his GPU issue. It had something to do with BIOS.

darn me and my inability to read! >_< lol