GTX 1060 6Gb Not Performing as should

[Tiress]

I upgraded my RAM to 2x8 GB Corsair, my GPU to MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB OCV1, and my CPU to i5-6500. I upgraded from 8GB RAM, an MSI 750 Ti and i3-6100. When I had my previous specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9GzKWZ I was easily getting 200-400 FPS on Minecraft with Ultra settings. Now, I only get around 90-130. I flew up and looked in the sky and easily got 1,600 FPS but then I looked down and only got 16 FPS. I'm just so confused. I saw that when I got around 1.6k FPS my CPU Usage went up to 90% if that means anything. Also, in ArmA 3 I still get around the same FPS as before, I haven't seen a performance increase in any games. Before I replaced my parts I forgot to uninstall the NVIDIA Drivers for my 750 Ti but after I installed my 1060 I did a clean boot and reinstalled all the drivers but it didn't work. I also experience some screen tearing and choppiness, like even above 60 FPS like 200 FPS still feels like 40 FPS. I paid $600 for these upgrades and I haven't seen any increase in performance - rather a decrease. This is bullshit!

 

[zahir1509]

Could be an issue of thermal throttling. Are you monitoring the temperatures on your system? Additionally, try reseating the GPU, the CPU(along with re-applying the thermal compound) and RAM modules and see if that helps.

 

[Tiress]

Could be an issue of thermal throttling. Are you monitoring the temperatures on your system? Additionally, try reseating the GPU, the CPU(along with re-applying the thermal compound) and RAM modules and see if that helps.

Yeah I am monitoring the temps and they seem fine. CPU Temps stay around 40-50 on Ultra Arma 3 and GPU stays around 50-60 Celsius. I opened up my PC and reseated the GPU and made sure it was firmly in. However, I cannot take the heatsink off because I don't have any thermal compound (It came on the OEM cooler) but I did make sure the fan was on tightly. I also made sure the RAM was seated too. Im gonna test it now and see how it does because I also did some cable management because some cables were resting on the GPU and stretching over it to the bottom of the MOBO. If this doesn't fix it then I think it might be faulty RAM or CPU. Or it could just be a problem with drivers, I have no idea! Thanks for your response. Got any more ideas?

 

[zahir1509]

In all honesty, it could be a problem with the drivers, but that generally doesn't affect the performance by a margin this large, so I didn't take that into consideration firsthand. Try using DDU (http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html) and perform a clean install of the drivers to see if that helps.

 

[Tiress]

Yeah man I already did that as stated in the question. Didn't work..

 

[danielthegreate]

First run a CPU benchmark to rule out the CPU, you can download CPUZ here :http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
You will be able to choose the base benchmark for your CPU and compare, Cinderbench is also good for checking your CPU.
Then you can run a GPU benchmark like Heaven, or 3DMark and compare your results with the data available for the GTX 1060 in online reviews, your GPU is fine if it is even by a little bit behind the online reviews(they tend to inflate their results more often than not). However, if it is too far off, then your should RMA the GPU.
Try another game benchmark and compare to the online results for the gtx 1060 to make sure it is not a weird bug in minecraft.

 

[Tiress]

First run a CPU benchmark to rule out the CPU, you can download CPUZ here :http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
You will be able to choose the base benchmark for your CPU and compare, Cinderbench is also good for checking your CPU.
Then you can run a GPU benchmark like Heaven, or 3DMark and compare your results with the data available for the GTX 1060 in online reviews, your GPU is fine if it is even by a little bit behind the online reviews(they tend to inflate their results more often than not). However, if it is too far off, then your should RMA the GPU.
Try another game benchmark and compare to the online results for the gtx 1060 to make sure it is not a weird bug in minecraft.

I ran a CPU Benchmark and while my single thread was 10 less than the "normal 6500" @390, my Multi thread was above the "normal 6500" I ran a stress test and it lasted for like 20 minutes then I stopped it. Still, does this all explain the 100% usage when playing games? Next I tested my GPU on unigine, which got around an average non-overclock score, and the same with 3DMark Firestrike. Then, I tested my RAM with ram.userbenchmark and it said it was performing above expectations. However, it said that my HDD was a problem or something. Could my HDD be causing this?

 

[danielthegreate]

First run a CPU benchmark to rule out the CPU, you can download CPUZ here :http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
You will be able to choose the base benchmark for your CPU and compare, Cinderbench is also good for checking your CPU.
Then you can run a GPU benchmark like Heaven, or 3DMark and compare your results with the data available for the GTX 1060 in online reviews, your GPU is fine if it is even by a little bit behind the online reviews(they tend to inflate their results more often than not). However, if it is too far off, then your should RMA the GPU.
Try another game benchmark and compare to the online results for the gtx 1060 to make sure it is not a weird bug in minecraft.

I ran a CPU Benchmark and while my single thread was 10 less than the "normal 6500" @390, my Multi thread was above the "normal 6500" I ran a stress test and it lasted for like 20 minutes then I stopped it. Still, does this all explain the 100% usage when playing games? Next I tested my GPU on unigine, which got around an average non-overclock score, and the same with 3DMark Firestrike. Then, I tested my RAM with ram.userbenchmark and it said it was performing above expectations. However, it said that my HDD was a problem or something. Could my HDD be causing this?

Your benchmarks show that your CPU, GPU and RAM are working as intended. The only case I can think of that your HDD can hinder performance is if some background process like windows indexing service or an antivirus is using the HDD while the HDD is degraded or faulty.
An SSD drive for boot would really make a difference even if the HDD isn't the cause of your problem. You can try disk checking software like passmark(http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm) or disk bench. If your storage has unreasonable latency or too many read errors that might be the problem. Also, it would be a good idea to check which processes are using your disk/processor utilisation in windows resource monitor. If you noticed a process is hugging resource in the background while gaming, that might be the problem.