Issues with my GTX 1080, please help!

[MercinwithaMouth]

I'm consistently having fps drop spikes every couple of minutes across multiple titles. I recently bought the build from my brother who barely used it.

I updated the GPU drivers before I brought it to my place. I was having fps problems with WoW and Metro: Last Light, but then I remembered to update drivers. I thought it made things better but WoW is still pretty bad about the drops and has stutter. Overwatch also has drops. Paragon didn't have any before I updated the drivers but now they're apparent. These drops are heavy too, getting me down to frame-by-frame kind of gameplay for a few seconds and then it straightens out again.

I7-4790k @ 4.00GHz, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080, 8 GB RAM, Windows 10, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 MOBO

 

[BringerOfTea]

have you checked the gpu temps while this occurs? Is it a reference model or a 1080 with an aftermarket cooler.. 8 GB of ram is also a bit on the short sight. shouldnt give you any issues. just saying with a pretty decent cpu and gpu, ram should also reflect in your budget.

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

I put the other 8 GB into my other PC before I bought this one. Haven't gotten around to putting them in. I'll find out temps.

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

Highest temps it hit was 83c, seemed to hover at 79c. CPU cores ranged from 76c - 82c.

 

[BringerOfTea]

its the Nvidia one... with the referance cooler? CPU is also running a bit hot... hows the air flow in the case and the ambient temps?

 

[BringerOfTea]

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/29.html

maybe cus of the thermal throttling?

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

its the Nvidia one... with the referance cooler? CPU is also running a bit hot... hows the air flow in the case and the ambient temps?

Yes, the reference I believe. I'm not sure what I can do to help the CPU other than get something better than a stock-fan. I'm not sure how I would know ambient temps, really. Something like 60f I feel.

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

Maybe. I'm not sure.

 

[BringerOfTea]

how many case fans do you have? and what do they do... you could try to increase the fan speed of the gpu by using something like msi afterburner and get a more efficient cooler for the cpu in order to improve the environment inside the case.

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

how many case fans do you have? and what do they do... you could try to increase the fan speed of the gpu by using something like msi afterburner and get a more efficient cooler for the cpu in order to improve the environment inside the case.

2, I believe. One on the top that blows air in and one in the back that blows air out.

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

Used MSI Afterburner to find that when I was playing WoW, the physical RAM was hitting over 7700. I put in the other 8GB of RAM and the problems seem non-existent so far. Was it possible my games at such high settings were bottlenecking the GPU/CPU due to RAM?

 

[MercinwithaMouth]

Having to reinstall Paragon to test it out. I'll do Overwatch next.

 

[reedo_43]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from MercinwithaMouth : "RAM bottlenecking PC?"

Earlier I made a post about having issues with my GTX 1080. I was getting consistent fps drops a couple of minutes in between each one across multiple titles. It happened with WoW, OW, and Paragon. I ended up downloading MSI Afterburner to see what was up, and I found that during WoW I had 7700 MB of physical RAM being used. I put it another 8GB of RAM that I had put into my older PC that I gave to my gf (had the RAM before getting the new one and hadn't gotten around to putting it in) and now that I have 16GB of RAM in the new build all of the drops seem to have disappeared. Is it possible for RAM to bottleneck your GPU/CPU? Their temps are lower than before as well.

Sounds like you are just using a lot of ram for your programs so just add more for 16Gb total if RAM is full it starts swapping with the harddrive and can slow your pc down significantly.

You may have been running out of ram thus "paging to disk".