Hi, about a year ago I broke my motherboard from an electronics project where I accidentally shot voltage backwards and had to switch it out. I put it off for a while, but eventually installed the Gigabyte B250m-DS3H as a replacement since it was cheap and was compatible with my processor.
Pre-accident, my build was capable of running smooth frames at medium to high settings for modern games. Now, after replacement (same components except motherboard is new and only 16 gig ram vs 32 before), I run the same in-game benchmarks and settings to see that I'm only getting 30-40 fps, which is borderline playable. There are absolutely no bottlenecks and I should not be getting this kind of performance, I just can't figure out why. I've made sure that my ram is configured dual-channel, virtualization enabled (if that matters?), bios at default settings, nvidia control panel defaults, drivers updated, all windows security and performance updates, checked integrity of all game files,
The only things left that I can think of are:
PRE-replacement build:
ASUS ROG STRIX B250F GAMING
Intel Core i7-7700
32 gig ram (2 different brand sets of 16 gig)
3 disk total: crucial m.2 SSD 1TB, 2x 1TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
EVGA 500W bronze power supply
Windows 10
AFTER:
GIGABYTE B250m-DS3H
Intel Core i7-7700
16 gig ram (gskill)
3 disk: crucial m.2 SSD 1TB, 2x 1TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition (but with extension cable)
EVGA 500W bronze power supply
Windows 10
Let me know if there are missing details and please ask clarifying questions, thank you
Pre-accident, my build was capable of running smooth frames at medium to high settings for modern games. Now, after replacement (same components except motherboard is new and only 16 gig ram vs 32 before), I run the same in-game benchmarks and settings to see that I'm only getting 30-40 fps, which is borderline playable. There are absolutely no bottlenecks and I should not be getting this kind of performance, I just can't figure out why. I've made sure that my ram is configured dual-channel, virtualization enabled (if that matters?), bios at default settings, nvidia control panel defaults, drivers updated, all windows security and performance updates, checked integrity of all game files,
The only things left that I can think of are:
- I was forced to run a pcie riser cable (extension) because my gpu, 1080 founders edition, wouldn't fit onto the motherboard (headers were blocking and slot didn't align with the cutouts on my case) so maybe this is affecting performance but I made sure to get a pcie 3.0 riser which should be the same bandwidth/fidelity as if the gpu were slotted directly, right?
- System fan headers on motherboard don't work, so no running case fans (only cpu/gpu but I monitored temps and they're ok at like 80C max cuz im running an open case rn)
- No CMOS battery, every time I've tried to boot with the battery installed then it wouldn't post for some reason
PRE-replacement build:
ASUS ROG STRIX B250F GAMING
Intel Core i7-7700
32 gig ram (2 different brand sets of 16 gig)
3 disk total: crucial m.2 SSD 1TB, 2x 1TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
EVGA 500W bronze power supply
Windows 10
AFTER:
GIGABYTE B250m-DS3H
Intel Core i7-7700
16 gig ram (gskill)
3 disk: crucial m.2 SSD 1TB, 2x 1TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition (but with extension cable)
EVGA 500W bronze power supply
Windows 10
Let me know if there are missing details and please ask clarifying questions, thank you