Whats up with this garbage 660 ti?

[iroxxar1]

I purchased a 660 ti to play guild wars 2. Upgraded from a 550 ti and I am seriously getting less fps with the 660 than the 550! temps are great - 60c under full load with air cooling. anyone know whats going on?

 

[Deemo13]

What power supply are you running?

 

[Deemo13]

Which 530W do you have? Brand is important. And your dual-core is probably the source of the bottleneck.

 

[drums101]

what cpu and ram do you have?

 

[iroxxar1]

530 watt psu, 3.33 ghz dual core

 

[drums101]

can you tell us the brand and model of the psu? and be more specific with the cpu...what brand as well....did you uninstall the old drivers before you installed the new drives?

 

[iroxxar1]

i have an overclocked one and its running at max - 1006 clock. my 550 ti was overclocked to 1000 base clock and with the exact same settings i had a constant 30 fps with the 550 and am now getting 15-22 fps with this 660

 

[iroxxar1]

RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-530SS 530W
intel core 2 duo 3.33ghz

 

[Deemo13]

You didn't answer any of our questions.

Which EXACT processor do you have?
Which EXACT power supply do you have?

 

[drums101]

look at my and demo's posts...can you be more specific when describing the rest of your rig...brand of psu and tell us exactly what cpu you have

 

[drums101]

Well, the Core2Duo is probably the bottleneck of your computer, and that is an absolutely awful power supply.

Either or both of those is most likely the source of the problem.

+1 both of those are rough lol

 

[Deemo13]

Well, the Core2Duo is probably the bottleneck of your computer, and that is an absolutely awful power supply.

Either or both of those is most likely the source of the problem.

 

[iroxxar1]

its not the psu. i have my gpu running soley on the 530 watt psu and hooked my cpu, fans, harddrive, mobo up to my 400 watt psu. still getting crap fps.

 

[blazorthon]

Wattage is not the only thing that makes a PSU good. There are more factors that regard the quality of a PSU.

 

[rdc85]

Maybe the driver not mature enough....

 

[manofchalk]

That may be the issue. Im fairly sure that a PSU will only turn on because of a signal from the 24pin cable. If youv only hooked up the GPU to it, might not even be supplying power. I suspect its only running off the 75W through the PCI-e slot.

 

[swifty_morgan]

if you don't know what you have.............. go into the device manager ( google it ) and look for the processor. hit the ( + ) sign. you will see it listed.

for the power supply, read the label...... you probably have to remove the case side. amperage under the 12v is what's more important.

 

[bigcyco1]

OMG stop everything RIGHT NOW raidmax psu =

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[manofchalk]

Well aware of that Cyco, I believe Deemo mentioned the quality of the PSU.
We would have got around to it eventually... But trying to solve the problem at hand, which is bad GPU performance.

 

[bigcyco1]

I see he did now didn't read the whole thread only part of it carry on then

 

[jacknhut]

Guild wars 2 is pretty new and the game is not fully optimized yet for video cards. My 2 GTX 670 SLI got around 30-90 fps, fps vary widely in different areas.

 

[ojas]

Hmmm. Unlikely to be a CPU bottleneck, if that were the case he'd get the same fps as before.

Unless of course he's turned up CPU based effects.

Are you running the latest nvidia driver for your card?

 

[jacknhut]

Best way to tell if your video card is having problem is to run 3d mark 11 and compare it to similar systems. Your card should score within 1000k points of similar systems, if not then something is wrong. Guild wars 2 is not a good game to test since even the GTX 680 can struggle a lot depend on what area of the map you are in.

 

[swifty_morgan]

what about game update ?

 

[iroxxar1]

ok update guys. btw i have an e8600 dual core 3.33ghz cpu. i have the 306.02 nvidia driver. interestingly i was just playing dark souls and it ran perfectly with the 660 ti.

there is an increase in performance on the heaven benchmark - on the 550 ti I would run dx11, moderate tessellation, 4x anisotropy, 2x AA and would average about 35 fps. With the 660 ti: dx11, extreme tess, 16x anisotropy, 8x AA and get 45 fps. Both of these are running the 26 stages as part of the "benchmark" option.

monitoring the 660 performance in guild wars i noticed gpu usage is only about 40-60% while I am getting the 20 fps. it is still playable like this bit i have to grit my teeth.

I ran my 550 ti with the 530 watt psu as it came a day earlier than the 660, (my old 400 watt psu was the minimum for the 550). I did not look at the numbers but i noticed my fans were much louder on the gpu - my guess from the increased power. I know my 550 ti did NOT run at 100% gpu load when I would max guild wars when it was getting less than 60 fps. Perhaps its the same case with the 660 where it just isnt getting enough power? My guess is the 530 watt psu is running much lower than that.