[SOLVED] Seasonic Core GM any good?

[Cardinawl]

Going to upgrade from a be quiet! pure power 11 500w gold to this. Wanna hear from experts if it's all good and verified.
Is there any better options at 70-80€ price point?

 

[ChumP]

That a pretty good choice, but won't be necessarily better compared to what you have now.

What's your current system configuration?
Why are you trying to change the PSU?
Where do you live/ from where are you buying?

 

[Cardinawl]

That a pretty good choice, but won't be necessarily better compared to what you have now.

What's your current system configuration?
Why are you trying to change the PSU?
Where do you live/ from where are you buying?

MSI RX5600xt mech 6gb
R3 3300x cooled with Hyper TX3 evo
G.Skill Aegis 2*8Gb 3200Mhz
Asrock B450m Pro4
Crucial P1 500Gb SSD + 1Tb Seagate 7200+ 500Gb Seagate 5600
be quiet! pure power 11 500w gold

Components all bought through Mindfactory.de at Germany

Long story short my system is underperforming (low gpu usage and consequent low framerates specially on low graphics) . Temps are fine ( 60-70ish), but GPU doesn't even get close to it's maximum core clock (1780), while benchmarking it goes up to 1600 when power limit is set to 30+, in which it can pull 150 watts easily. If not set to 30+, it'll goes up to 1500. That tells me the GPU needs more juice. However, what confuses me is the gpu usage at games. It looks exactly like a bottleneck case, But i doubt a 3300x has any problems handling a 5600xt. fps is the same doesn't matter which graphic quality i set the game on. "Squad" is literally unplayable at some maps, because of the many drops and freezes, MW 2019 shows much lower fps compared to benchmarks i've seen, specially on low graphics, "Hunt: Showdown" is embarrassing for me to play with this frame rate. It annoys me to have this 150€ish performance out of this card while i payed 280€ for it. I've been digging for the last couple months what the reason could be and how to fix it. I tried literally everything i could think of; from updating/reinstalling drivers and windows to buying and testing other components ( specifically 1660 super) , I even RMAed my ram, cpu, gpu and mobo that i got just one month ago and looks like all of them were functioning up to standards (just not in my house lol), so the only option remaining is testing a new PSU and see how that goes.

Ps; I actually posted my actual problem a while ago, but it didn't get that much of attention. All i got was someone asking about the temps and that was it.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

 

[ChumP]

Clearly not a PSU problem. Your system draws way under 500W and the pure power 11 is decent.

If it indeed was the PSU you'd encounter a sudden power loss (OCP or OPP tripped on the unit)... components slowing down is not a thing when this happens.

I don't really think it's the GPU frequency either. Look here's an example:

View: https://youtu.be/oqrBiBRMM9Y


With the old VBIOS(the one at the time of launch) the 5600XT was boosting to around 1600 MHz... it was a bit slower, but not like you've described.

I can't really think of anything that'd help... you've literally tried everything. You said your temps are fine, have you checked utilization and clock speeds for the CPU during your gaming sessions? Utilization of the GPU and CPU should be analyzed together, especially when it stutters.

 

[Cardinawl]

Clearly not a PSU problem. Your system draws way under 500W and the pure power 11 is decent.

If it indeed was the PSU you'd encounter a sudden power loss (OCP or OPP tripped on the unit)... components slowing down is not a thing when this happens.

I don't really think it's the GPU frequency either. Look here's an example:

View: https://youtu.be/oqrBiBRMM9Y


With the old VBIOS(the one at the time of launch) the 5600XT was boosting to around 1600 MHz... it was a bit slower, but not like you've described.

I can't really think of anything that'd help... you've literally tried everything. You said your temps are fine, have you checked utilization and clock speeds for the CPU during your gaming sessions? Utilization of the GPU and CPU should be analyzed together, especially when it stutters.

The CPU usage seems to be fine. I benchmarked it a few times with the Cinebench r20 and it performs up to standards. The PSU swap is my last solution. If it doesn't work, ill try a priest, cuz this is most likely a curse

 

[Cardinawl]

Clearly not a PSU problem. Your system draws way under 500W and the pure power 11 is decent.

If it indeed was the PSU you'd encounter a sudden power loss (OCP or OPP tripped on the unit)... components slowing down is not a thing when this happens.

I don't really think it's the GPU frequency either. Look here's an example:

View: https://youtu.be/oqrBiBRMM9Y


With the old VBIOS(the one at the time of launch) the 5600XT was boosting to around 1600 MHz... it was a bit slower, but not like you've described.

I can't really think of anything that'd help... you've literally tried everything. You said your temps are fine, have you checked utilization and clock speeds for the CPU during your gaming sessions? Utilization of the GPU and CPU should be analyzed together, especially when it stutters.

Thanks for the assist though, i just looked it up and the new Vbios is already on there. The thing is, the card is not using more than 130 watts most of the times even when playing something like the shadow of the tomb raider on ultra. Shouldn't it be somewhere around 150? I mean i'm not complaining that it's using less power, but if it's costing this much of performance then i am mad. I tested the 1660 super a while ago and i was getting more decent results, the fps on hunt was literally higher than 5600xt (low graphics) , I wonder how it would've looked like if i still had the 1660 super to test on Squad. I remember, it didn't even got close down to 100 fps in Hunt on low graphics, but with 5600xt, it's pretty normal to fall down to 75, literally a 1060ish fps that my friend is getting, i'm dissappointed really.
Do you think anyone would buy the 5600xt for somewhat around 220€ on ebay? i might as well sell it there and wait for the new cards

 

[Cardinawl]

Clearly not a PSU problem. Your system draws way under 500W and the pure power 11 is decent.

If it indeed was the PSU you'd encounter a sudden power loss (OCP or OPP tripped on the unit)... components slowing down is not a thing when this happens.

I don't really think it's the GPU frequency either. Look here's an example:

View: https://youtu.be/oqrBiBRMM9Y


With the old VBIOS(the one at the time of launch) the 5600XT was boosting to around 1600 MHz... it was a bit slower, but not like you've described.

I can't really think of anything that'd help... you've literally tried everything. You said your temps are fine, have you checked utilization and clock speeds for the CPU during your gaming sessions? Utilization of the GPU and CPU should be analyzed together, especially when it stutters.

The stutters only happen in squad, which make the game completely unplayable at times, they're consistent throughout the whole round. I would've believed that it's because of the bad optimization of the game, but since my friends are experiencing more stable framerates with their relatively lower end PCs and considering that it's not the only place that i have performance issues, it's hard to say that it's because of the game. Gpu usage on Squad is literally at 60% at times that i have stutters, in shadow of the tomb raider benchmark i see that the cpu usage maxes at 100% and the gpu drops to 50-60% usage in open environments (last scene of the benchmark), Something is holding this dude back and i cannot figure out what. It'll surprise me if it's the CPU.