Degraded Performance=Faulty Components?

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Mr Lol

Mr Lol

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Hi, I've been having this issue for quite awhile now, I've made some threads on LTT, bought a new PSU, and even tested my GPU in another friend's system. The issue is that on many games, performance would be unbearable low. I have a Radeon R9 290 and I have reinstalled the drivers and removed them completely over 4 times. I also updated the motherboard drivers to no avail. Any sort of games, even not as demanding ones such as ROBLOX get extremely bad frame rates. Like, 10-20 low. I notice that my GPU is around 400-800mhz in core speed and about 1100 in memory. The core clock fluctuates very often, going from 400 to 700 to 500 to 800 and so on. I have already ruled out my GPU as I have tested it in my friends system, and also I have bought a completely new power supply(EVGA 750w 80+ Platinum). I bought it anyway as I am soon going to upgrade, however, the matter at hand is pretty serious for me as I cannot play any of my desired games at reasonable settings. GPU temps are pretty average, 50-60 while under load, usually the fans would start to gain speed, but after a single night, everything just started going downhill. I have absolutely no clue how one night could affect my components. What I do remember that night is that I woke up to my computer turning on from sleep mode(idk why) and I turned it off by flipping the PSU power switch off.

I'm starting to think that they are one of my other components. I'm starting to wonder if it's my RAM, Mobo, CPU, or maybe even drivers.. Do you guys have any tips on what I can do and how to verify if any of these components are faulty? I will have a list of components down below. The bold components are those that I have ruled out as not faulty. I have had this computer since May of this year, everything has worked fine up until now.

Intel i5-4460
Asrock h97m Anniversary
8gb G.Skill Ripjaws 2133 mhz (2x4)
Powercolor R9 290
EVGA Supernova G2 750w
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1tb
A-Data Premier Pro SP6900
Corsair 350d
 
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Nope, there is your problem. First, go into your control panel, power options, and change the plan to balanced or full performance. This will see if windows is throttling or not. If not, then the BIOS is the next step but think we nailed it down. Now it's just getting your CPU to run faster than 800mhz. l ol.
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First thing would be to install something like openhardwaremonitor and see and make sure that your CPU speed is going up, and see what % it runs at during a game. Same with GPU usage. You need to see if something is maxxing out when it shouldn't be or not being used when it should.
 
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Okay, so I tried the openhardwaremonitor with Mortal Kombat X. Load percents were all over the place for the GPU. The GPU would be fluctuating the most, going from 1 to 100 then 70 then 40 etc. The CPU is staying towards 96 percent and above. Temps however didn't go above 35 for my CPU.
 
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What speed is the CPU running at? Is it upclocking to the speed it should be. They downclock the speed when idle but should jump up when needed.

GPU running at 100% and going up and down is fine. It should be the one maxxed. The CPU shouldn't, especially with your CPU.

Also, the GPU can throttle it's speed down. what is it's clock speed.
 
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Nope, there is your problem. First, go into your control panel, power options, and change the plan to balanced or full performance. This will see if windows is throttling or not. If not, then the BIOS is the next step but think we nailed it down. Now it's just getting your CPU to run faster than 800mhz. l ol.
 
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My God, thank you so much for telling me this. I have had this problem for over a week, and it has been low settings for me );. I even bought a 120 dollar power supply thinking that was the problem. Boy I thought wrong. It ended up being the power saving... I will now go express my rage using Shinnok now. THANK YOU!!!!!
 
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I wish more people were like you! They would deviate into a complete different thing or just argue about 1 point when really not solving the problem. You stayed and helped me figure out what was wrong. Thank you again.

 
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The best answer to your question is to think about when the system started to slow down or give a poor frame rate in any games you play or run.

Have a think when it all started to happen, and if you installed any software or programs the day before the system started to play games much worse.

One of the easy ways to do this is to look at your windows system restore points, along with the date you remember things started to go wrong.
It will list what day and what time the backup or system restore was made and what program was installed, or a change to the system was made, including any Microsoft downloads that were installed or applied as updates,that may be causing you the problem.
Simply choose a restore point before the changes were made and see if the system reverts back to the way it was in respect to how games are currently playing to see if there is a change in the frame rate they run at.

Don`t forget that the motherboard also has the ability to use it`s own on board Intel graphics solution.

And double check in your bios it is disabled, and your primary graphics card interface is set to Pci-e mode or Peg.

Some boards have the ability to run the on board graphics solution at the same time as the Pci-e card or the R9 290 card you have placed in the pci-e slot of the board. It should always be disabled in favor of the card in the Pci-e slot of the motherboard.

Make sure this mode is turned off in the bios because some times, the result of the low frame rates can be down to this mode enabled in the bios.

And also a clash with the Intel graphics driver and the AMD graphics driver running in tandem.
Sometimes when you think you are running a game through the R9 290 card it can in fact be using the Intel graphics solution, games default to it, and the reason why you are getting such low frame rates, because the Intel on board solution is less powerful than your R9 290 card.

You should set the mode to only use your pci-e based card.
And once done remove any display driver relating to the Intel on board graphics solution.

Use this program to completely remove any trace of any graphics drivers on your system.
This will also clean out any registry entries made in the windows os, as well as removing all the video card driver files.
http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html


Restart the system and go to the AMD support site for the latest version of CCC for your R9 290 based graphics card.
Turn of any power saving features in the bios also if you can.
And also the Intel speed Stepping options within your bios.

Check the temps of the graphics card when playing a game.
And also use a program as said to monitor the cpu and it`s speed.

There are the main things you want to look at if games have a poor frame rate at the moment.

The problem is dual graphics cards running at the same time.
Two video drivers in windows running at the same time.
Or your cpu is working at a very low Mhz range and is not boosting it`s clock speed the cpu can or should run at the the model of cpu is rated to run at in speed.



 
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Sorry man, made you type all of that for nothing. However, your advice is pretty good for truly defective units.
 
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