Hi, I’ve recently posted on linustechtips forums regarding an issue with my pc after upgrading my GPU from a 1080 ti to an msi rtx 3080 gaming z and my psu from an old 850w Corsair psu to hx1200 Corsair psu. Unfortunately, the folks on the Linus forums were unable to help me so I’m trying my luck here (will post it the forum link below for more context). In summery, I’ve been getting performance problems along with occasional stuttering and crashing in games. Someone on my forum post suggested for me to use GPUz and post a screenshot of the sensor readings while playing a demanding game. They found that the card was running a clock speed higher than the manufacturer boost clocks while using a lower than expected voltage for that clock speed (I’ll post a screenshot of the sensor readings below). I’ve tried using 3 separate 8 pin PCIe cables for the card and it made no difference. I’m assuming that the reason why the GPU is running higher boost speed is because of GPU boost 3.0 and maybe the voltage is off because it might have something. to do with msi afterburner settings or Evga precision x app I uninstalled after installing the GPU (pic of the afterburner voltage curve below). Please let me know what you think I should do. Someone suggested that I should flash the bios but I’m really not a tech savvy guy and I’m afraid of creating a new and even bigger problem than the one I currently have by flashing the bios ( something I’ve done only once many years ago on a cheap laptop). I need to exhaust every other option first and leave a bios flash as a dead last resort. Please let me know if you have any idea how I can solve this issue. Thank you.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Temps are all fine (GPU and CPU typically stay at around 60-65c at load). In order to try to get this stuttering to go away, I've tried to use that OC button on my motherboard because I know nothing about overclocking and afraid to ruin something if I do it manually myself (I'm really good at breaking stuff unintentionally) but to my sadness that OC button doesn't light up when i press it while the pc is turned off and it doesn't work. Am i suppose to press it while the pc is turned on? can i enable it from the bios? please let me know if you can figure out the reason why it isn't working.
Anyway, I've also tried:
1- enabling/disabling hardware accelerated gpu scheduling on windows
2- turning game mode in windows on and off
3- set the power management mode in Nvidia control panel to set maximum performance and normal along with windows power management setting to “max performance”
5- Turning ray tracing/ DLSS settings on and off
And yes, before upgrading my GPU i went into safe mode and used DDU to remove my old driver then I installed the GPU and installed the new driver.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Temps are all fine (GPU and CPU typically stay at around 60-65c at load). In order to try to get this stuttering to go away, I've tried to use that OC button on my motherboard because I know nothing about overclocking and afraid to ruin something if I do it manually myself (I'm really good at breaking stuff unintentionally) but to my sadness that OC button doesn't light up when i press it while the pc is turned off and it doesn't work. Am i suppose to press it while the pc is turned on? can i enable it from the bios? please let me know if you can figure out the reason why it isn't working.
Anyway, I've also tried:
1- enabling/disabling hardware accelerated gpu scheduling on windows
2- turning game mode in windows on and off
3- set the power management mode in Nvidia control panel to set maximum performance and normal along with windows power management setting to “max performance”
5- Turning ray tracing/ DLSS settings on and off
And yes, before upgrading my GPU i went into safe mode and used DDU to remove my old driver then I installed the GPU and installed the new driver.