My Upgraded PC Seems Slower?

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I recently upgraded by GTX 960 (4GB) to a GTX 1060 (3GB) but my PC performance seems to have dropped and I am getting less FPS in games and lower benchmark scores, this shouldn't be happening so is there anything I have missed?
 
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What are cpu temps? If you did not install the cooler properly and its causing the cpu to overheat yes that could make a difference.

Did you reinstall your gpu drivers? I would use DDU to get rid of your old drivers for the 960, then reinstall the drivers with the 1060.
My Specs Are:

AMD FX-8320
MSI GTX 1060 3GB
8GB DDR3 HyperX
Gigabyte 990x mobo
500w CiT Active 85

I also upgraded by CPU heat-sink recently, could this have made a difference?
 
Less VRAM and the performance is being bottlenecked from your CPU, fx 8320 can't handle a 1060 3gb it can't even handle a 1050 Ti, Sources: Experience on an old PC. I put in my 1070 into my fx 8350 build a while back to see if it would improve my frames and nothing changed in any games so yeah you are getting bottlenecked from your CPU.
 
What are cpu temps? If you did not install the cooler properly and its causing the cpu to overheat yes that could make a difference.

Did you reinstall your gpu drivers? I would use DDU to get rid of your old drivers for the 960, then reinstall the drivers with the 1060.
 
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I know but surely my PC wouldn't get worse?
 
Like I said, It could be because the 1060 3gb is giving the same exact performance as the 960 but just with less VRAM which can cause it if the games you are playing are capping out on VRAM usage.

And the reason it isn't out preforming the 960 is because your CPU isn't allowing it to give better performance.
 


A CPU bottleneck would not cause a 1060 to perform worse than a 960, worst case it would perfom the same. Nor will an 8320 bottleneck that bad in the vast majority of games. The 1060 3gb will eat a 960 4gb, regardless of the fact the 960 has another gig of vram.
 


My CPU temps are about 25 degrees on idle and about 50 during gaming so I don't think that is the problem. I uninstalled my old GPU drivers on device manager aswell :/ l'll check out DDU though :)
 


Agreed, But the CPU he has won't allow the 1060 to eat the 960 lol I've had a 8350 for years and I know how bad the FX series bottlenecks.
 


That depends on the game, saying the fx series bottlenecks is a blanket statement that is not correct in all situations. I had an fx 6350 with a 1060 6gb before I upgraded and only experienced bottlenecks in cpu heavy titles like bf1 or gta v. The 8320 is enough to fully utilize a 1060 in a lot of games and absolutely should not result in lower scores in any benchmark vs an 8320 and 960. That is not a cpu bottleneck, my guess would be a driver or some other software issue.