Frame Stutter's/FPS Drops

[swifty_morgan]

breadboard it. what happens?

 

[melonsarecool]

Okay, like I've mentioned before, drivers are NOT the issue, AMD have confirmed this for me as well as me confirming it for myself after formatting my hard drive multiple times whilst trying to solve this problem. I have no idea what you mean by breadboard unfortunately. Also I'm not replacing my case, the NZXT Phantom which I'm running my computer in is one of the best gaming cases around and if you are saying that my motherboard not standing off the case far enough then it's more simply a case of buying a new motherboard as the majority are cheaper than my current case

 

[swifty_morgan]

take the parts out of the case and hook power up and run it........ out of the case. you may be having intermittent grounding problems.

and seeing how you mentioned something about a card not fitting right......... you missed something somewhere.

 

[melonsarecool]

take the parts out of the case and hook power up and run it........ out of the case. you may be having intermittent grounding problems.

and seeing how you mentioned something about a card not fitting right......... you missed something somewhere.

Yeah I think it needs some spacer's but im not sure where to get them from, I say this because I upgraded from a very basic Mid-Tower to a full scale beast of a case. I don't think it needed spacers in that case and given the fact it was not built by me (www.cougar-extreme.co.uk built it) and now given the fact I have only just noticed that the motherboard model that is in my computer is actually around £20 less than the one that I have the box for I think if spacer's do come with the motherboard they may have been lost or thrown out somehwere along the lines. I am certainly tempted to get a new motherboard anyway because I'm takking it a £30 one is pretty ?

 

[swifty_morgan]

go to a local computer shop and get a dozen motherboard stand-offs. ( small brass hexagonal "spacers" ) that should screw into the motherboard ( in the areas below the 9 (give or take ) holes in the motherboard. then you set the motherboard on top of them and hold the motherboard down with properly threaded screws ( small ones ) guess you should buy those also.

pull the stuff from the case and run the machine. that will show whether or not anything has been damaged. no time to get lazy.

 

[wolfram23]

The standoffs usually come with the case not the motherboard.

It's possible that grounding is the issue but I don't think so... however, a GPU not properly seated can definitely have that. Basically if some PCIe pins lose contact it drops down your bandwidth, less bandwidth means less GPU power, and then less FPS.

Also, you can never rule out graphics drivers... you have no idea how many times a clean install has fixed problems.