Upgraded to GTX 560... my performance is worse?!

[Klopford]

So I built a PC six years ago with an i7 920 (2.67Ghz, never oc'd it) and a GTX 260. I just replaced my GTX 260 with a GTX 560 and I have had nothing but trouble. The render test on GPU-Z is fine, NovaBench gives me 71fps, 3DMark11 not so much. I think my performance is equal or worse in Second Life, hardly a change in WoW, War Thunder used to be unplayable until I tweaked a ton of settings and then put the card itself in my OTHER PCIe 2.0 slot, and I'm getting weird stuttering in MLB 2k12, even on menus it freezes briefly like every two seconds and the benchmark in that game won't go above 22fps. But I used to run all those games fine on my other card!

I have uninstalled/clean reinstalled the drivers soooo many times, moved the card to a different slot, cleaned my CPU heatsink (I needed it anyway, my temps were 95-100C when under load for long periods of time and now with new thermal paste I don't pass 70C), troubleshooted some of my startup issues (super high CPU usage at start) by disabling all but Microsoft services in msconfig and have started the process of readding the ones I actually want... I'm running out of ideas here!

And just in case it's relevant my motherboard is a MSI x58 Platinum SLI (MS-7522), also six years old.

 

[TechyInAZ]

strange, try a bios update

 

[Klopford]

strange, try a bios update

I am having a hell of a time finding which BIOS is the right one. MSI Live Update 6 doesn't even identify which version my current BIOS is nor will it show any updates available. And the main reason this bugs me is because I want to be DAMN sure I'm doing it right, since if I do it wrong I'll have just bricked my whole system.

 

[kunthakenthe]

maybe be the slot you put it in put it in a pci-e 3.0/ pci 2.0 x16 slot. try updating drivers sound like that the problem.

 

[Klopford]

maybe be the slot you put it in put it in a pci-e 3.0/ pci 2.0 x16 slot. try updating drivers sound like that the problem.

The slot is PCIe 2.0, I don't have any PCIe 3.0 on that board. GPU-Z verifies I'm in a 2.0 slot. And I am using the latest Nvidia drivers (340.25), clean installed (I even used Display Driver Uninstaller!)

 

[kunthakenthe]

this is weird try returning the card sound like its a defect.

 

[kunthakenthe]

u can try overclocking to but that doesnt sound like the issue

 

[GmanBOSS]

If you were running 100 C ( 212 F )for long periods of time you may have caused serious damage to the cpu and mobo. That's so high I am not sure how it didn't catch fire lol.

 

[solkeher]

strange, try a bios update

I am having a hell of a time finding which BIOS is the right one. MSI Live Update 6 doesn't even identify which version my current BIOS is nor will it show any updates available. And the main reason this bugs me is because I want to be DAMN sure I'm doing it right, since if I do it wrong I'll have just bricked my whole system.

I have an MSI Motherboard and used MSI Live Update 6... I recommend you stay away from it. It's buggy and won't even update your BIOS (well if you're lucky, maybe it will). I advice you go to MSI's website and look for your product and look at downloads. I think they have archived downloads for older devices. Flash your motherboard if possible.

MSI Live Update is buggy.

 

[Klopford]

strange, try a bios update

I am having a hell of a time finding which BIOS is the right one. MSI Live Update 6 doesn't even identify which version my current BIOS is nor will it show any updates available. And the main reason this bugs me is because I want to be DAMN sure I'm doing it right, since if I do it wrong I'll have just bricked my whole system.

I have an MSI Motherboard and used MSI Live Update 6... I recommend you stay away from it. It's buggy and won't even update your BIOS (well if you're lucky, maybe it will). I advice you go to MSI's website and look for your product and look at downloads. I think they have archived downloads for older devices. Flash your motherboard if possible.

MSI Live Update is buggy.

I did find a BIOS from the product page, but the manual is confusing. First it says don't use a floppy, then it says make a floppy! I can't do a floppy anyway, I don't have a floppy drive!