Used ASUS AI Suite to overclock, my performance went down severely, nothing seems to fix it

[mrfe333]

While playing around with AI suite from ASUS, I saw the option to auto tune overclocking. I decided to do it, and my performance really went down. I don't even game that much anymore, but even outside of games I saw a noticeable change in performance and snappiness. However, I really noticed the change a few days later when I opened up a few games, there was a ton of lag and a massive drop in frame-rates.

I thought that the problem was the 'power saving mode' in the software, so I disabled it, and nothing changed. Then I started reading up on AI suite and found on some forums talk about how most of the time overclocking software does more harm than good and conflicts with BIOS settings, I saw that someone's solution was deleting AI suite and then resetting the bios settings to 'Optimized Defaults'. I did that, and at first things seemed fixed, normal OS use is more responsive now. However, game performance is still really really bad. I get 10 FPS in ESO (in pretty normal and not crowded, not really graphical intensive areas). All of that while GPU is at 50% and CPU is at 10%.

I read somewhere that this type of overclocking software might mess with nvidia drivers, so I used Display Driver Uninstaller and downloaded all the video card drivers from scratch, but still nothing. I even tried overclocking from the BIOS this time around and the performance change was minimal.

This is my rig (built about a year ago): https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LvKPzM. This was able to handle Witcher 3 at 60fps on ultra settings, so it's really wierd to see that now I even get bad framerates on Sims 4 when my sister plays it.

PLS help I'm desperate, also take my story as a cautionary tale: overclocking software sucks, do everything on the BIOS

 

[4Ryan6]

Your parts list only shows 1 500G 850EVO SSD HDD is that correct that's the only HDD you're running?

Reason for asking is if you're approaching filling up that 500G drive which is never a full 500G but probably about 450G and some change the closer you get to maxing it out, or filling it up, the more you'll see performance fall off.

Auto software overclocking sucks which you now know, because it can push voltages higher than you would ever run them manually.

There could be numerous reasons as to why this is happening but first go into my computer and see just how much free space you have on your HDD?

 

[mrfe333]

Your parts list only shows 1 500G 850EVO SSD HDD is that correct that's the only HDD you're running?

Reason for asking is if you're approaching filling up that 500G drive which is never a full 500G but probably about 450G and some change the closer you get to maxing it out, or filling it up, the more you'll see performance fall off.

Auto software overclocking sucks which you now know, because it can push voltages higher than you would ever run them manually.

There could be numerous reasons as to why this is happening but first go into my computer and see just how much free space you have on your HDD?

Yeah actually. I only have 19.4 gigs left. Would storage make such a drastic change though? Also, I've been thinking about expanding my storage with an HDD, would that affect framerates too?

Thanks for the reply!

 

[4Ryan6]

Yeah actually. I only have 19.4 gigs left. Would storage make such a drastic change though? Also, I've been thinking about expanding my storage with an HDD, would that affect framerates too?

Thanks for the reply!

If you don't have enough free space it will be forced to create a page file, unless that's been disabled?

It may help to see if you have any apps like games you've past played that you could remove and get some free space some of the games I play have a massive amount of stored data.

That would help IF?, that is your problem, I have a 1T Samsung M.2 as my C drive, and a 1T Samsung SSD for backup, and a 2T WD 7200rpm mechanical HDD for storage.

Usually using auto overclock software doesn't create these problems unless you had a hardware weakness somewhere in the setup. Usually disabling the auto overclock straightens everything back out, but to be sure you may need to do a hard clear of the CMOS settings, look in your M/B manual to see how to do it. Make sure your wall power is pulled when you do the procedure.