[SOLVED] How To Fix Low Utilization ?

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sburgess1278

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I have been having an issue recently where my FPS drops very substantially in all the games I play. I made sure all my drivers are updated, and windows updates are done but it still occurs. I used DDU to remove all graphics drivers and reinstall them but still nothing. I downloaded HWMonitor and I am currently running Dying Light 2 and its showing my Utilization Limit to be 1, which from what I've read means it isn't being used fully. I've included the full HWMonitor screen in the screenshot below and my current PC specs.

Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU @ 3.80GHz, 3792 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: MPG B560I GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7D19)
GPU: NVIDIA 3060TI Founders Edition
RAM: 32GB of 3200GHz
PSU: 650W SFF Gold, cant find make and model without opening it up.
Disk Drive: WDC WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 (thats what it says in task manager, its an M2 NVME SSD).

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View: https://imgur.com/a/q0pURFX
 
Solution
kerberos_20
that voltage limit means that GPU is limited by voltage limiter....not much to render, high fps, maxed out gpu clocks
you could rise voltages, gpu would clock higher


hmm your bus interface has pretty high load, thats unusual since direct storage is not yet available
possible reason:
you dont have enough VRAM, so GPU runs from system RAM (thus high pcie load)
your PCIE runs at low version, check that with GPU-Z while gaming
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kerberos_20 said:
your bios is up to date? last bios has some pcie settings change, if youre already on latest, try older bios version
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Just updated it a few days ago. I tried an older version a few hours ago thinking the same thing, I've loaded optimized defaults and even looked up YT tutorials for configuring BIOS. Nothing
 
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you could send your mainboard for RMA, but between x4 and x16 isnt bigg diff on 3060...maybe 10-20fps diff in some games, but it shouldnt be such drop from 300 to 100 fps diff like you mentioned
x1 is slowpoke for sure as cpu cant feed GPU fast enough so its spends most of time waiting for that single lane to finish sending data, tho 8 lanes would be preffered
you could redo benchmarks to see how it runs now, as before it was performing really poorly
 
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I recently downloaded GPU-Z and found out that my graphics card is only running at x4 instead of x16. I have tried removing it and replacing it but it stays at x4. I have updated drivers, windows updates, and my BIOS is fully up to date. My GPU is connected through a riser since my build is a ITX inside the NZXT H1 case.


Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU @ 3.80GHz, 3792 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: MPG B560I GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7D19)
GPU: NVIDIA 3060TI Founders Edition
RAM: 32GB of 3200GHz
PSU: 650W SFF Gold, cant find make and model without opening it up.
Disk Drive: WDC WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 (thats what it says in task manager, its an M2 NVME SSD).
 
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