After running the Batman Arkham Asylum game and getting dissapointing frame rates I decided to benchmark my GPU again to see if it was just the game or my GPU. As it turns out it seems to be my card (or software issues?).
I benchmarked my computer about a week or two ago and got a score of 20k in 3DMark06 and when I just did the benchmark again I got 10k....I noticed the GPU scores and they were half of what they were with the first benchmark. The clocks on the card all seem to be fine (CPU-Z reports 400mhz core clock on the program but then online it reports what my EVGA Precision reports).
Anyone have any idea what would be causing this? I have the latest drivers from Nvidia (might re-install now actually)
Update:Full Synopsis below
- Graphics card is performing at about half the level it should be. A benchmark test in 3DMark06 proves this, it should be running at 120fps in one scene but for some reason it is running at 60fps during some tests.
- Here's what happens: Initially it performs fine, I'm able to run the benchmark and get the correct FPS (meaning my clocks are correct). However after playing a game or even some idle time (maybe, haven't tested), the GPU lowers the clocks to about half of their stock level bringing the same area in the benchmark test down to 60fps.
- A temporary fix for this seems to be to fully shut down the computer and making sure all the connections are good inside the case.
My guess's to what it might be: Bad Motherboard (utilizing the slot as only x8 instead of the full x16), Bad GPU (this is obvious) and maybe even a bad PSU? I'm going to try switching the power cables to another set of PCIE ones soon <--- just tried that and it might've worked, now I just need to wait for it to happen, or hopefully not happen again
I don't want to spend too much of my time troubleshooting this and I don't actually have any other capable computer that can run this card without needing to upgrade that machines PSU
I benchmarked my computer about a week or two ago and got a score of 20k in 3DMark06 and when I just did the benchmark again I got 10k....I noticed the GPU scores and they were half of what they were with the first benchmark. The clocks on the card all seem to be fine (CPU-Z reports 400mhz core clock on the program but then online it reports what my EVGA Precision reports).
Anyone have any idea what would be causing this? I have the latest drivers from Nvidia (might re-install now actually)
Update:Full Synopsis below
- Graphics card is performing at about half the level it should be. A benchmark test in 3DMark06 proves this, it should be running at 120fps in one scene but for some reason it is running at 60fps during some tests.
- Here's what happens: Initially it performs fine, I'm able to run the benchmark and get the correct FPS (meaning my clocks are correct). However after playing a game or even some idle time (maybe, haven't tested), the GPU lowers the clocks to about half of their stock level bringing the same area in the benchmark test down to 60fps.
- A temporary fix for this seems to be to fully shut down the computer and making sure all the connections are good inside the case.
My guess's to what it might be: Bad Motherboard (utilizing the slot as only x8 instead of the full x16), Bad GPU (this is obvious) and maybe even a bad PSU? I'm going to try switching the power cables to another set of PCIE ones soon <--- just tried that and it might've worked, now I just need to wait for it to happen, or hopefully not happen again
I don't want to spend too much of my time troubleshooting this and I don't actually have any other capable computer that can run this card without needing to upgrade that machines PSU