GTX 1080 runs differently after SSD

[Iceman96051]

So I recently got a SSD drive and after a massive PITA installation of a new copy of Windows 10 on it, my 1080 actually runs worse. Nothing else really seems effected but I have two benchmarks to show you.

(For the links, just click on the before SSD test and after SSD, the links directly to them ended up as broken links for some reason).

Userbenchmark: Now not a great benchmark per say but I like to see how my things compare to others. Anyways, this was the benchmark I ran before the SSD
This is after: . A gain in pretty much everything but a massive loss in my graphics card. Looking at it's stats, it seems to be struggling with DX9. Also the test I ran right before that one I got 17 FPS on one of the DX9 tests so that really makes me wonder.

Heaven 4.0: I don't have a screenshot of my first run before the SSD but it was 120.1 FPS with a lowest FPS of 33.2 (1080p res, AA 8, Tesselation extreme, and on Ultra)
Here's a screenshot of my latest run now: http://imgur.com/BPpIqnh. Now I don't mind the FPS difference there, I did do my first run overclocked, my issue is the minimum of 9.2 FPS, not even my GTX 970 hit that at those same settings.

In games it seems to do the same, it can keep a high FPS but it has very strange stuttering that happens (pretty rare but often enough to be quite noticeable) where it will drastically drop in FPS but then instantly go back up. Not a massive deal but for the money I paid for this card that isn't something I want to deal with ya know? (PS: It used to not do that before my SSD update).

I am now running off a completely fresh install (I even deleted my old drivers) so is there a chance I may have forgotten an important update somewhere along the way or did I install the drives in the wrong place? Is it also possible I damaged my graphics card in some while messing around with everything? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[hiyabusared]

A quick thought is try resetting your BIOS for just extra measures. Have you also made sure to reinstall your GPU drivers as well. Sorry if you said this just didn't see it. Also depending on your brand of 1080 have you looked at the manufacturer forum website to see if there's an issue with anyone else getting this? Also have you monitored your voltage and Mem usage while playing the games?

 

[Iceman96051]

A quick thought is try resetting your BIOS for just extra measures. Have you also made sure to reinstall your GPU drivers as well. Sorry if you said this just didn't see it. Also depending on your brand of 1080 have you looked at the manufacturer forum website to see if there's an issue with anyone else getting this? Also have you monitored your voltage and Mem usage while playing the games?

Resetting the BIOS seemed to fix it for the most part. The card itself doesn't overclock as high as it did before but that's not a huge deal to me. On an unrelated note, what would happen if my system was pulling more wattage than my power supply could supply? Because my overclock of 135 on core clock and 525 memory increases speed by a fair amount but it will always crash my 4k monitor after a while but that's all it does, my other 2 monitors are fine and I can even still open games in them. In fact I can open and play games on them with the overclock still on, it seems like it's bottlenecking with the 3rd monitor for some reason and was just wondering if maybe that could be related to it pulling too much power?

 

[hiyabusared]

The way your wording this I understand but in the way your asking this is that, no your 4k monitor SHOULDN'T be pulling more power because monitors have their own power supply. What 1080 do you have by chance? Also what wattage is your psu and brand, is it 80bronze or above? So its specifically the 4k that crashes. Have to tried setting the 4k monitor to 1080p and see if it crashes? Your psu CAN output more wattage than it's supposed to but depends how much lol. My other question is have you moved the GTX 1080 to a different PCI-E slot and ran the benchmarks and to see if the 4k monitor still crashes?

 

[Iceman96051]

The way your wording this I understand but in the way your asking this is that, no your 4k monitor SHOULDN'T be pulling more power because monitors have their own power supply. What 1080 do you have by chance? Also what wattage is your psu and brand, is it 80bronze or above? So its specifically the 4k that crashes. Have to tried setting the 4k monitor to 1080p and see if it crashes? Your psu CAN output more wattage than it's supposed to but depends how much lol. My other question is have you moved the GTX 1080 to a different PCI-E slot and ran the benchmarks and to see if the 4k monitor still crashes?

Hmm ok. Well to be fully clear it's only when I overclock the card, otherwise it runs just fine. I've had a few times where I overclocked it too high and it shut down all 3 monitors as I think my PC killed it before it got damaged or something (was at about +175-180 on core clock). My point is I expected that happen, the part that's confusing me on the monitor is that it will sometimes stop the game momentarily, crash the port for my 4k monitor and move the game over to either my TV or my other monitor. If the video card was pulling too much power, wouldn't it just crash all 3 monitors since they are all plugged into it? Which again, this only happens on an overclock. Anyways It's an EVGA ACX 3.0 SC (or something like that) for $649.99. PSU is EVGA Bronze 600 watt. I bought a kill a watt on Newegg a couple days ago (It's still shipping) because I was beginning to think I'm just pulling too much with the overclock on that card for my PSU to handle it. Not sure if it's worth upgrading the PSU if that is the case as the extra performance for the overclock might not be worth about another $80 or so.