Question EVGA 970 to RTX 3060 - Screen-tearing, stuttering, and terrible FPS ?

[zakrauto]

Edit: A tremendous thank you to everyone that has responded. I am truly grateful for all the advice and support. Looks like the most cost efficient option is to buy a used desktop with the i7-7700 cpu in it. Swap the cpu's and give the second machine away.


***Original Post***
Went from EVGA 970 4gb SSC to a RTX 3060 12gb. The new GPU doesn't perform any better than the 970 did. In some way it actually performs worse. Games have terrible screen tearing, stuttering / lagging, and crashes. Typically I am seeing FPS in the 30's and 40's when not moving anything on screen. As soon as I try to take an action FPS drops to the teen's and single digits.

I have followed Youtube videos of how to adjust settings in the Nvidia Control Panel, lowering game settings, and reducing the screen resolution from 4k down to 1080p (The monitor was so blurry on 16:9 - 1920 x 1080 that I switched back to 356:192 - 4096 x 2160) for the sharp image on the rest of the machine. As best as I can tell in the 4 or so hours I got to tinker with my machine last night, it's just games that run sub par. YouTube plays fine. Text on webpages is sharp and easy to read. I did reduce the scale option in windows from 300% down to 150% or 175% for the size I liked best.

Below is my system information. Any ideas on what the fix is for this why this gpu is performing so badly are greatly appreciated.


System Information

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home

Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name COMPUTER

System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

System Model H170-Gaming 3

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU To be filled by O.E.M.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F4, 11/2/2015

SMBIOS Version 2.8

Embedded Controller Version 255.255

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

BaseBoard Product H170-Gaming 3

BaseBoard Version x.x

Platform Role Mobile

Secure Boot State Off

PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.2728"

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 62.1 GB

Available Physical Memory 56.4 GB

Total Virtual Memory 71.1 GB

Available Virtual Memory 62.4 GB

Page File Space 9.00 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Kernel DMA Protection Off

Virtualization-based security Not enabled

Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/device(s) detected, TPM is not usable

Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes

Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

 

[Eximo]

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That CPU is not compatible with his system.

i7-6700k and i7-7700k were the top CPUs for LGA1151 v1.

I7-6800k is an LGA2011 v3 chip for the High End Desktop X99 platform, not Z170/Z270.

Z370 and Z390 further used LGA1151 v2 which only worked with 8th and 9th gen CPUs and not older 6th and 7th gen CPUs to add to the pile of confusion.

 

[zakrauto]

That CPU is not compatible with his system.

i7-6700k and i7-7700k were the top CPUs for LGA1151 v1.

I7-6800k is an LGA2011 v3 chip for the High End Desktop X99 platform, not Z170/Z270.

Z370 and Z390 further used LGA1151 v2 which only worked with 8th and 9th gen CPUs and not older 6th and 7th gen CPUs to add to the pile of confusion.

Thank you for the heads up. I am learning a ton through this forum. Y'all are awesome people. I hope you have a fantastic day

 

[stonecarver]

That CPU is not compatible with his system.

Thank you for the correction. You get tired and slip up. Again thanks for quickly point out my mistake.

 

[Eximo]

You can blame Intel for not making much distinction between model names during that time.

Pretty easy to make the mistake through most of the HEDT line up until they switched to using X exclusively.

This goes back to 1st gen i series chips. 800 series was desktop and 900 series was HEDT.

i7-870 was consumer, i7-920 and up were HEDT.
Then they skipped 2000 for HEDT so there was no issue there.
i7-3820/i7-3930k vs i7-3770k
i7-4820k/i7-4930k vs i7-4770k/i7-4790k

Also here was the first time they used the same LGA socket number for multiple incompatible lines. LGA-2011 and LGA-2011 V3.

i7-5930k gets a pass because there were only two 5th generation S class CPUs, both with C suffixes
i7-6800k vs i7-6700k

Only with X299 did they exclusively use the X suffix for HEDT consumer CPUs.
i7-7800X and so on.

New Intel HEDT (Sapphire Rapids) will stick to the Xeon naming this time.

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

You can blame Intel for not making much distinction between model names during that time.

Pretty easy to make the mistake through most of the HEDT line up until they switched to using X exclusively.

This goes back to 1st gen i series chips. 800 series was desktop and 900 series was HEDT.

i7-870 was consumer, i7-920 and up were HEDT.
Then they skipped 2000 for HEDT so there was no issue there.
i7-3820/i7-3930k vs i7-3770k
i7-4820k/i7-4930k vs i7-4770k/i7-4790k

Also here was the first time they used the same LGA socket number for multiple incompatible lines. LGA-2011 and LGA-2011 V3.

i7-5930k gets a pass because there were only two 5th generation S class CPUs, both with C suffixes
i7-6800k vs i7-6700k

Only with X299 did they exclusively use the X suffix for HEDT consumer CPUs.
i7-7800X and so on.

New Intel HEDT (Sapphire Rapids) will stick to the Xeon naming this time.

Intel is planning renaming again in future why cant we just have simple easy names

 

[Eximo]

Intel is planning renaming again in future why cant we just have simple easy names

The upcoming change is minor on the desktop, more or less dropping the i but retaining the rest of the model names. It is confusing for mobile.

Designating high end chips as Ultra when traditionally that had been reserved for low power Ultrabook processors.

Core 9 instead of i9. Remains to be seen if Ultra will follow the K suffix on desktop (which they are keeping, for now) But since they are skipping Meteor Lake on the desktop, the new branding will appear on mobile first. 14th gen should be the last of the i series for desktop.

 

[kizo]

What model monitor are you using?

RTX 3060 is not 4k gaming capable and never will be.
But it should not be worse than GTX 970.
It should give ~2x more fps with same settings (resolution/image quality).

For 4k gaming you'd need at least RTX 3080, 4070 or better.

That is not true.
Not everyone needs to play at Ultra settings at 100fps.
And not every game is equally demanding.
And there was gaming before 2023 when many games were decently optimised.
If not straight out of the gate , then quite quickly apparently.

Many,many fewe years older games are still worth playing.
Without DLSS it is mostly 1440p card.
With DLSS it becomes 4K card.
Not 3080 or better,but it can provide solid 4K experience to most players.

Many settings do very little to siginificantly improve graphics unless you exactly know what to look for.
Playing ultra for ultra sake is stupid unless you can clearly point out the differences.
And pointing out differences while standing still and actually playing is very different.
So carefully mixing medium,high,very high and Ultra can often breed similar visual experience as everything on Ultra if you have some patience to customise.
The whole point of PC gaming is customisation is it not?
What separates PC and console gaming?