New rig massively underperforming

[liamknox]

New rig:

Asus STRIX 1080
I7-7700k
8GB Corsair DDR4 3000MHz RAM
Asus Z270F Motherboard

Struggling to get 60 fps on CSGO on medium settings 1080p.

Scored 111 on OpenGL and 924 on Cinebench. Also got 109 on Heaven Benchmark.

Can't seem to make the RAM run at full speed, runs at 1460MHz atm even though I've enabled XMP and manually changed it to 3000MHz.

EDIT: RAM IS OPERATING AT CORRECT SPEED, ALWAYS WAS, MY MISTAKE.

Processor gets full load very easily, a web browser and discord is enough to get the load to 65%.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN FIXED.

Look at all the things the people below have recommended to do, they help a little bit then proceed with the following if you had the same problem as me with my components:

In the advanced section of the BIOS on the ASUS STRIX Z270 Motherboard check that the cores of the processor are synchronized because mine was not set up like that out of the box (makes no sense why you wouldn't want them synchronized). This should have a massive effect on the performance of the machine.

PS - DO NOT use the "EZ" overclock function on this board, it's terrible.

 

[PI3L0V3R]

Might seem like a dumb thing, but do you have your monitor plugged into the graphics card?

 

[liamknox]

Might seem like a dumb thing, but do you have your monitor plugged into the graphics card?

Lmao, yeah I'm sure

 

[photonboy]

Might seem like a dumb thing, but do you have your monitor plugged into the graphics card?

That's my guess too. (update: never mind)

And FYI, running 1460MHz wouldn't affect things that much. Also, 3000MHz implies you have two sticks of memory in Dual Channel. If you have ONE STICK only I'd consider getting another identical kit (or identical 2x4GB kit if that's what you have) because more than 8GB is starting to be a thing for high-end gaming.

Other: I'll run Heaven Benchmark as my system is almost identical.

Fire Strike (basic, not ultra etc) score for the posted system should be almost 17,000 (depending on overclock on GPU and CPU).

*OTHER:
Please confirm you have the NVidia drivers installed?

I'm still going to post my Heaven results

 

[PI3L0V3R]

It may be that your PC isnt picking up the GPU. An easy way to check is to simply open the nvidia control panel. You can do this by going to your actual control panel and selecting it from there, or right click on the nvida geforce experience icon and select the control panel option. If its being picked up, then it will open. If not it wont open.

Once open, the first thing in front of you is a quality slider. Select the us my preference emphasizing (blank). Slide it all the way on the quality side.

 

[photonboy]

It may be that your PC isnt picking up the GPU. An easy way to check is to simply open the nvidia control panel. You can do this by going to your actual control panel and selecting it from there, or right click on the nvida geforce experience icon and select the control panel option. If its being picked up, then it will open. If not it wont open.

Once open, the first thing in front of you is a quality slider. Select the us my preference emphasizing (blank). Slide it all the way on the quality side.

He wouldn't have anything on the screen if the computer couldn't detect the GPU that the monitor is plugged into.

 

[photonboy]

Here's some BENCHMARK results I made after getting a GTX1080. I'll just post what I have and you can see if anything is useful so ignore the GTX680 and whatever else you don't need (if using Unigine Valley make sure to use the EXACT same settings)->

System:
W10 64-bit
i7-3770K (4.4GHz under load)
16GB (4x4GB) 2133MHz DDR3
GTX680 2GB, or GTX1080 8GB

1. Unigine Valley
-DX11, Ultra, x8AA, full screen, 2560x1440

GTX680
- 27.5FPS avg
- 1152
- 16.3FPS low
- 51.9FPS high

GTX1080
- 68.4FPS avg
- 2863
- 32.7fps low
- 140.3fps high

2. Unigine Heaven
- DX11, Ultra, Extreme tessellation, x8, FS, 2560x1440

GTX680
- 22.9FPS
- 577
- 14.6FPS low
- 52.7FPS high

3. Fire Strike Ultra (v1.1)

GTX680
760 (?)
graphics 634
physics 11,610
combined 846

4. 3DMARK Time Spy

GTX680
2276
graphics 2093
CPU 4525

GTX1080
6813
graphics 7451
CPU 4590

5. Metro 2033 REDUX
- 2560x1440, max settings (vsync off)

GTX680
15.44fps avg
5.7fps min

6. Metro LL Redux

GTX680
15.87fps avg
5.15 min

GTX1080
49.24fps avg
13fps min

7. Sleeping Dogs

GTX680
31.2fps avg
18.6fps min

GTX1080
97fps avg
55.9fps min

8. Bioshock Ultimate
- ULTRA, 2560x1440

GTX680
70.05avg ("overall")

GTX1080
166.53avg

9. Hitman Absolution
- 2560x1440, 8xMSAA, max quality

GTX680
9fps min
21.2fps avg

GTX1080
54fps min
65fps avg

10. Batman Arkham Origins
- 2560x1440, max settings

GTX680
28fps low
37fps avg

GTX1080
67fps low
135fps avg

11. Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor
- 100% (2560x1440), max settings (except ultra VRAM off)

GTX680
33.5fps low
44.6fps avg

12. Dragon Age Inquisition
- 2560x1440, ULTRA, 4xMSAA (manually ensure all are on Ultra)

GTX680:
12.6fps min
17.5fps avg

13. Thief
- 2560x1440, highest (manually make sure. also disable auto textures)

GTX680
35fps avg

14. Dirt Showdown
2560x1440, max

GTX680
42fps min
53fps avg

15. JC2
- concrete jungle only
- 2560x1440, 32xCSAA, max..

GTX680
37fps avg

16. DMC4 Special Ed
- 2560x1440, max

GTX680
S1 93.5fps
S2 83.3fps
S3 111.9fps
S4 73.4fps

GTX1080
S1 183fps
S2 169.3fps
S3 206.4fps
S4 140.6fps

17. Far Cry 2
- 2560x1440, max
- ranch small demo

GTX680
64.8fps min
97.3fps avg

18. Skyrim SE
- 2560x1440, max

GTX680
- 32FPS low in wagon (first minute) so probably drops to 20FPS or lower worst-case in game

19. Batman Arkham City
- 2560x1440, 32xCSAA, MV55&HBAO, High tessellation
- detail EXTREME, PhysX HIGH

GTX680
45fps avg
20fps low
*in-game with lower tessellation and AA still STUTTERS even at good frame rate if PhysX and/or DX11 features are enabled

20. Lost Planet 2
- 2560x1440, max etc
- TEST 1, Scene 1

GTX680
66.7fps

GTX1080
231.1fps

21. Mafia II
- 2560x1440, max

GTX680
49.7fps avg

GTX1080
76.5fps avg (huh? CPU bottleneck or PhysX bottleneck?)

 

[liamknox]

Might seem like a dumb thing, but do you have your monitor plugged into the graphics card?

That's my guess too. (update: never mind)

And FYI, running 1460MHz wouldn't affect things that much. Also, 3000MHz implies you have two sticks of memory in Dual Channel. If you have ONE STICK only I'd consider getting another identical kit (or identical 2x4GB kit if that's what you have) because more than 8GB is starting to be a thing for high-end gaming.

Other: I'll run Heaven Benchmark as my system is almost identical.

Fire Strike (basic, not ultra etc) score for the posted system should be almost 17,000 (depending on overclock on GPU and CPU).

*OTHER:
Please confirm you have the NVidia drivers installed?

I'm still going to post my Heaven results

Yes I have, used GeForce Experience to install them. I've never had an issue with it before.

 

[vrumor]

Did you carry over an old HDD with an OS that you are reusing without reformatting and reinstalling Windows?

 

[PI3L0V3R]

It may be that your PC isnt picking up the GPU. An easy way to check is to simply open the nvidia control panel. You can do this by going to your actual control panel and selecting it from there, or right click on the nvida geforce experience icon and select the control panel option. If its being picked up, then it will open. If not it wont open.

Once open, the first thing in front of you is a quality slider. Select the us my preference emphasizing (blank). Slide it all the way on the quality side.

He wouldn't have anything on the screen if the computer couldn't detect the GPU that the monitor is plugged into.

The first set of instructions is to see if the GPU is being picked up. Second set is possible solution.

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from liamknox : "New build poor performance?"

Just made a new rig.

7700K
Asus 1080
8GB 3000MHz Corsair RAM

Haven't overclocked it yet, the CPU load maxes out very easily, it was on 52% just with corsair link and a web browser open. Any ideas what is causing this?

did you install fresh windows ?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

It might work a bit slower but should not affect the CPU as long as its legitimate version of windows.
did you try a bios update ?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

It might work a bit slower but should not affect the CPU as long as its legitimate version of windows.
did you try a bios update ?

no I haven't, can you point me in the direction of a tutorial?

You have something else going on...you sure it's not updating windows in the background ? I can't think of any website that could use 52% of a i7 7700 for more than a sec or two.

There's nothing a BIOS update would do that would have anything to do with your CPU usage...a BIOS update would add additional CPU support or maybe add additional memory support. It certainly wont have anything to do with your CPU sitting at 52%.

Have you run a virus and trojan scan ?

You have something else going on...you sure it's not updating windows in the background ? I can't think of any website that could use 52% of a i7 7700 for more than a sec or two.

There's nothing a BIOS update would do that would have anything to do with your CPU usage...a BIOS update would add additional CPU support or maybe add additional memory support. It certainly wont have anything to do with your CPU sitting at 52%.

Have you run a virus and trojan scan ?

you would be surprised.....

cpu temps?

cpu temps?

39 degrees celsius while playing csgo. The PC struggles to hit 60fps on csgo too which is ridiculous.

max out and only running at 39 degress? something is not right. What is the motherboard model? bios up to date?

 

[rgd1101]

Did you reinstall windows 10 or not?

 

[liamknox]

Did you carry over an old HDD with an OS that you are reusing without reformatting and reinstalling Windows?

No, I am using the same storage I had in my old PC but I formatted and reinstalled everything.

 

[liamknox]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from liamknox : "New build poor performance?"

Just made a new rig.

7700K
Asus 1080
8GB 3000MHz Corsair RAM

Haven't overclocked it yet, the CPU load maxes out very easily, it was on 52% just with corsair link and a web browser open. Any ideas what is causing this?

did you install fresh windows ?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

It might work a bit slower but should not affect the CPU as long as its legitimate version of windows.
did you try a bios update ?

did you install fresh windows ?

yes, I accidentally installed it on an SSD in RAID mode instead of AHCI if that is the problem?

It might work a bit slower but should not affect the CPU as long as its legitimate version of windows.
did you try a bios update ?

no I haven't, can you point me in the direction of a tutorial?

You have something else going on...you sure it's not updating windows in the background ? I can't think of any website that could use 52% of a i7 7700 for more than a sec or two.

There's nothing a BIOS update would do that would have anything to do with your CPU usage...a BIOS update would add additional CPU support or maybe add additional memory support. It certainly wont have anything to do with your CPU sitting at 52%.

Have you run a virus and trojan scan ?

You have something else going on...you sure it's not updating windows in the background ? I can't think of any website that could use 52% of a i7 7700 for more than a sec or two.

There's nothing a BIOS update would do that would have anything to do with your CPU usage...a BIOS update would add additional CPU support or maybe add additional memory support. It certainly wont have anything to do with your CPU sitting at 52%.

Have you run a virus and trojan scan ?

you would be surprised.....

cpu temps?

cpu temps?

39 degrees celsius while playing csgo. The PC struggles to hit 60fps on csgo too which is ridiculous.

max out and only running at 39 degress? something is not right. What is the motherboard model? bios up to date?

Did you reinstall windows 10 or not?

Z270F ASUS, updated the bios last night, didn't fix the problem.

 

[aquielisunari]

New rig:

Asus STRIX 1080
I7-7700k
8GB Corsair DDR4 3000MHz RAM
Asus Z270F Motherboard

Struggling to get 60 fps on CSGO on medium settings 1080p.

Scored 111 on OpenGL and 924 on Cinebench. Also got 109 on Heaven Benchmark.

Can't seem to make the RAM run at full speed, runs at 1460MHz atm even though I've enabled XMP and manually changed it to 3000MHz.

Processor gets full load very easily, a web browser and discord is enough to get the load to 65%.

Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried a clean install? Make sure it's using the AHCI mode this time and try again?

You should have expected... Wait 1. You have a 7700K, a 1080 and 1 single 8GB RAM module? That offends reason sir. But seriously I have troubles wrapping my head round that one. You should have expected the RAM speed. You are running a single RAM module when the board's manufacturer recommends modules be installed in multiples of 2. 3000 / 2? 1500. You're at 1460. Add a second stick(as suggested above) and it will run in dual channel model.

 

[liamknox]

New rig:

Asus STRIX 1080
I7-7700k
8GB Corsair DDR4 3000MHz RAM
Asus Z270F Motherboard

Struggling to get 60 fps on CSGO on medium settings 1080p.

Scored 111 on OpenGL and 924 on Cinebench. Also got 109 on Heaven Benchmark.

Can't seem to make the RAM run at full speed, runs at 1460MHz atm even though I've enabled XMP and manually changed it to 3000MHz.

Processor gets full load very easily, a web browser and discord is enough to get the load to 65%.

Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried a clean install? Make sure it's using the AHCI mode this time and try again?

You should have expected... Wait 1. You have a 7700K, a 1080 and 1 single 8GB RAM module? That offends reason sir. But seriously I have troubles wrapping my head round that one. You should have expected the RAM speed. You are running a single RAM module when the board's manufacturer recommends modules be installed in multiples of 2. 3000 / 2? 1500. You're at 1460. Add a second stick(as suggested above) and it will run in dual channel model.

Done a clean install, it's a little better on AHCI mode. Doesn;t say above but I am running dual channel, 2x4GB 3000Mhz. The speed is also correct, I never knew you had to double what CPU-Z tells you for the actual speed it's running at.

 

[aquielisunari]

New rig:

Asus STRIX 1080
I7-7700k
8GB Corsair DDR4 3000MHz RAM
Asus Z270F Motherboard

Struggling to get 60 fps on CSGO on medium settings 1080p.

Scored 111 on OpenGL and 924 on Cinebench. Also got 109 on Heaven Benchmark.

Can't seem to make the RAM run at full speed, runs at 1460MHz atm even though I've enabled XMP and manually changed it to 3000MHz.

Processor gets full load very easily, a web browser and discord is enough to get the load to 65%.

Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried a clean install? Make sure it's using the AHCI mode this time and try again?

You should have expected... Wait 1. You have a 7700K, a 1080 and 1 single 8GB RAM module? That offends reason sir. But seriously I have troubles wrapping my head round that one. You should have expected the RAM speed. You are running a single RAM module when the board's manufacturer recommends modules be installed in multiples of 2. 3000 / 2? 1500. You're at 1460. Add a second stick(as suggested above) and it will run in dual channel model.

Done a clean install, it's a little better on AHCI mode. Doesn;t say above but I am running dual channel, 2x4GB 3000Mhz. The speed is also correct, I never knew you had to double what CPU-Z tells you for the actual speed it's running at.

What about power modes?

Windows power options - High Performance

Nvidia Control Panel - 3d Settings Power Management - Prefer maximum performance.

What are your core and memory clocks during gaming?

What are your CPU and GPU loads during gaming?

What is your RAM usage during gaming? (not system memory. MSI AB has system memory for VRAM and RAM usage for RAM )

What does a little better mean?

 

[liamknox]

New rig:

Asus STRIX 1080
I7-7700k
8GB Corsair DDR4 3000MHz RAM
Asus Z270F Motherboard

Struggling to get 60 fps on CSGO on medium settings 1080p.

Scored 111 on OpenGL and 924 on Cinebench. Also got 109 on Heaven Benchmark.

Can't seem to make the RAM run at full speed, runs at 1460MHz atm even though I've enabled XMP and manually changed it to 3000MHz.

Processor gets full load very easily, a web browser and discord is enough to get the load to 65%.

Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried a clean install? Make sure it's using the AHCI mode this time and try again?

You should have expected... Wait 1. You have a 7700K, a 1080 and 1 single 8GB RAM module? That offends reason sir. But seriously I have troubles wrapping my head round that one. You should have expected the RAM speed. You are running a single RAM module when the board's manufacturer recommends modules be installed in multiples of 2. 3000 / 2? 1500. You're at 1460. Add a second stick(as suggested above) and it will run in dual channel model.

Done a clean install, it's a little better on AHCI mode. Doesn;t say above but I am running dual channel, 2x4GB 3000Mhz. The speed is also correct, I never knew you had to double what CPU-Z tells you for the actual speed it's running at.

What about power modes?

Windows power options - High Performance

Nvidia Control Panel - 3d Settings Power Management - Prefer maximum performance.

What are your core and memory clocks during gaming?

What are your CPU and GPU loads during gaming?

What is your RAM usage during gaming? (not system memory. MSI AB has system memory for VRAM and RAM usage for RAM )

What does a little better mean?

I mentioned before that the CPU gets full load very easily, now it's not happening as much since I reinstalled windows.

Core and memory are totally correct CPU occasionally boosts to 4.5 and that's its.

Only games I've been testing on are Battlegrounds and CSGO, both max load on CPU (haven't tried since reinstalling OS) and GPU load is about 50%, both games are apparently CPU intensive (which I'm not 100% sold on) so that seems to check out.

 

[photonboy]

UPDATE: I forget this isn't free. I got it on sale but it's $25USD I think. There is a DEMO though but I'm not sure what you can run with that. I'll still post the info below though.

Get FIRE STRIKE (Steam) and run that. I confirmed that the following settings are correct and they apply to both the CPU and GPU so you should be within 5% or so of these results depending on overclock etc.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/19036157?

That is NOT the Ultra, but just Fire Strike 1.1.

The quick SCORE for your system should be just over 16,500.

(if that's NOT the case then we know to look further at the hardware setup. If it's TRUE then it may be some issue with your game setup. I'm baffled why CSGO would be so low though. weird.)

 

[liamknox]

UPDATE: I forget this isn't free. I got it on sale but it's $25USD I think. There is a DEMO though but I'm not sure what you can run with that. I'll still post the info below though.

Get FIRE STRIKE (Steam) and run that. I confirmed that the following settings are correct and they apply to both the CPU and GPU so you should be within 5% or so of these results depending on overclock etc.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/19036157?

That is NOT the Ultra, but just Fire Strike 1.1.

The quick SCORE for your system should be just over 16,500.

(if that's NOT the case then we know to look further at the hardware setup. If it's TRUE then it may be some issue with your game setup. I'm baffled why CSGO would be so low though. weird.)

Thanks for all your help, I've fixed it and it was something you would have probably never guessed.

Motherboard out of the box had all the cores and threads of my machine de-synchronized, when I changed that to synchronized the FPS in all my games went through the roof, it's hitting 300 on CSGO and 70-120 on Battlegrounds which is an early access game too.

 

[aquielisunari]

UPDATE: I forget this isn't free. I got it on sale but it's $25USD I think. There is a DEMO though but I'm not sure what you can run with that. I'll still post the info below though.

Get FIRE STRIKE (Steam) and run that. I confirmed that the following settings are correct and they apply to both the CPU and GPU so you should be within 5% or so of these results depending on overclock etc.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/19036157?

That is NOT the Ultra, but just Fire Strike 1.1.

The quick SCORE for your system should be just over 16,500.

(if that's NOT the case then we know to look further at the hardware setup. If it's TRUE then it may be some issue with your game setup. I'm baffled why CSGO would be so low though. weird.)

Thanks for all your help, I've fixed it and it was something you would have probably never guessed.

Motherboard out of the box had all the cores and threads of my machine de-synchronized, when I changed that to synchronized the FPS in all my games went through the roof, it's hitting 300 on CSGO and 70-120 on Battlegrounds which is an early access game too.

Where is that setting?

 

[liamknox]

UPDATE: I forget this isn't free. I got it on sale but it's $25USD I think. There is a DEMO though but I'm not sure what you can run with that. I'll still post the info below though.

Get FIRE STRIKE (Steam) and run that. I confirmed that the following settings are correct and they apply to both the CPU and GPU so you should be within 5% or so of these results depending on overclock etc.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/19036157?

That is NOT the Ultra, but just Fire Strike 1.1.

The quick SCORE for your system should be just over 16,500.

(if that's NOT the case then we know to look further at the hardware setup. If it's TRUE then it may be some issue with your game setup. I'm baffled why CSGO would be so low though. weird.)

Thanks for all your help, I've fixed it and it was something you would have probably never guessed.

Motherboard out of the box had all the cores and threads of my machine de-synchronized, when I changed that to synchronized the FPS in all my games went through the roof, it's hitting 300 on CSGO and 70-120 on Battlegrounds which is an early access game too.

Where is that setting?

Somewhere in the advanced section of the BIOS, can't remember exactly where though.

 

[aquielisunari]

UPDATE: I forget this isn't free. I got it on sale but it's $25USD I think. There is a DEMO though but I'm not sure what you can run with that. I'll still post the info below though.

Get FIRE STRIKE (Steam) and run that. I confirmed that the following settings are correct and they apply to both the CPU and GPU so you should be within 5% or so of these results depending on overclock etc.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/19036157?

That is NOT the Ultra, but just Fire Strike 1.1.

The quick SCORE for your system should be just over 16,500.

(if that's NOT the case then we know to look further at the hardware setup. If it's TRUE then it may be some issue with your game setup. I'm baffled why CSGO would be so low though. weird.)

Thanks for all your help, I've fixed it and it was something you would have probably never guessed.

Motherboard out of the box had all the cores and threads of my machine de-synchronized, when I changed that to synchronized the FPS in all my games went through the roof, it's hitting 300 on CSGO and 70-120 on Battlegrounds which is an early access game too.

Where is that setting?

Somewhere in the advanced section of the BIOS, can't remember exactly where though.

It may help someone else if you can find it. Least you narrowed it down. Thanks for that

All I can find is the lighting synchronization.