GTX 780 Underperforming

[giostagnaro]

Hey guys, i'm getting very low fps on most games on my new GTX 780. In some games like Batman Arkham City where my fps should be flying by the 100's im getting between 30 - 60 fps and in Skyrim i'm getting between 25 - 62 even though the game is not modded, I've looked almost everywhere and can't find a solution, in every other forum people just tell the OP to turn V-Sync off or to unpark their cores, I've also checked GPU-Z but kinda clueless lol.
This is my current build running on Windows 8.1
- Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz
-Motherboard
- GPU EVGA GTX 780
- 8GB Ram Kingston Blu
- Samsung 250gb ssd
- PSU Corsair CX750


I have the latest Nvidia drivers and no idea what is causing my build to underperform. Please help me pros of tomshardware and masters of the internets.

 

[giostagnaro]

It's a sandybridge. The op doesn't have a haswell
4440 as stated according to hw monitor and the motherboard is also from the previous generation.

Dips in Bat man makes sense with physx on high and aa at max but Skyrim shouldn't have any problems unless the op installed mods.

I have no mods installed, and i get heavy frame drops. I don't understand why this is happening with the 780 because with my previous card, which was the 650ti I could even play with an ENB and texture mods and still have 50 - 60 fps

 

[rolli59]

Confirmed looked at the links in OP it is an LGA 1155 system B75 board and I5 2400! If the card was really running at X1 speed you would hardly get 60fps in those games.

Sorry the processor is really 2400, my bad. Does that mean that my GTX 780 is bottlenecked? Should i get a new processor and a new mobo? Cause i'm already considering it.

Your CPU should keep up so really do not know what is going on if it is running at X16 when gaming.

 

[CondemnedShadow]

It's a sandybridge. The op doesn't have a haswell
4440 as stated according to hw monitor and the motherboard is also from the previous generation.

Dips in Bat man makes sense with physx on high and aa at max but Skyrim shouldn't have any problems unless the op installed mods.

I have no mods installed, and i get heavy frame drops. I don't understand why this is happening with the 780 because with my previous card, which was the 650ti I could even play with an ENB and texture mods and still have 50 - 60 fps

The 780 on skyrim even fully modded with max ENBs should be able to run 60+ FPS at 1080p. Try a fresh OS install. It may also be something hardware related just saying. I have no idea what might be the problem if this does not fix the problem.

 

[Vic 40]

I looked at the system summary again ad noticed that your ram isn't working dualchannel.Put it in either the blue or the black slots to make it run in dualchannel.
Maybe there's one that should be populated so look in the manual which are the best to use.

It might and probably doesn't have to do with your problems,but it should be better anyway.

You're not using the linked ram also according to the system summary.According to the info in the next topic should it be 2x8gb's and there's also confusion about it,
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1752649/xmp-profile-missing.html
it seems that someone has messed things up somewhere.

 

[giostagnaro]

I looked at the system summary again ad noticed that your ram isn't working dualchannel.Put it in either the blue or the black slots to make it run in dualchannel.
Maybe there's one that should be populated so look in the manual which are the best to use.

It might and probably doesn't have to do with your problems,but it should be better anyway.

You're not using the linked ram also according to the system summary.According to the info in the next topic should it be 2x8gb's and there's also confusion about it,
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1752649/xmp-profile-missing.html
it seems that someone has messed things up somewhere.

I can't make it work dual channel since i only have 1 8gb RAM stick.

 

[Vic 40]

Ah,didn't see that one coming.

 

[giostagnaro]

Oh yeah, installing chipset drivers, reseating my graphics card and updating its drivers and also updating the BIOS fixed it. Now i am getting 160 FPS in skyrim with ultra settings, thanks!!!

 

[rolli59]

That is more like it!