[SOLVED] Why is my GTX 1080 performing so terribly?

[Baconation]

I'm getting less than half of the frames I would usually get in any game and my Unigine Heaven score was terrible
1460 on 1080p with 57.3 frames, can anyone help me?

 

[itsdigger]

The troubles being the plugged in drive doesn't work, or the m.2 doesn't work, depending on boot priority and windows temperament.

so, when I see the userbenchmark readings that Baconaton has,I suspect this situation and suggest what I suggested...

 

[Karadjgne]

Normally I'd agree, but for 1 thing. If the port is disabled, it wouldn't read the drive in the first place, the Sabrent would not show or the Seagate wouldn't show, the port being disabled makes it functionally dead to any data transfer, including hardware id's.

The Sabrent is at 54%, so it's doing something. Just not nearly what it's capable of. Almost as if it was stuck at Gen3 mode, not Gen4 mode.

 

[itsdigger]

Normally I'd agree, but for 1 thing. If the port is disabled, it wouldn't read the drive in the first place, the Sabrent would not show or the Seagate wouldn't show, the port being disabled makes it functionally dead to any data transfer, including hardware id's.

The Sabrent is at 54%, so it's doing something. Just not nearly what it's capable of. Almost as if it was stuck at Gen3 mode, not Gen4 mode.

I'll use This Example of sharing ports , scroll down to post 14 and 15

 

[DeckZPC]

Well, I kinda had 2 8GB Ram sticks by default but my brother gave me his extra ram sticks which were another 8 and a 16, I don't think this affected it as I was getting the same speeds anyway even when I removed the extra ram

sometimes if they are different sizes, brands etc it can make it weird sometimes not even work.

 

[Karadjgne]

If you put an nvme on m.2.2 it disables Sata port 5/6. The reason for that is both those ports use a single dedicated set of pcie lanes. You either get one or the other and if the motherboard detects one, you don't get the other at all, there is no partial or swapping. The Lane is shared, not the port, so you'll not get 1/2 performance in the m.2 if there's a hdd in Sata 6,and it'll not flip-flop.

The Sabrent shows 54%. That means it's recognised and working. Any secondary ports will be dead. Period. They won't recognise any storage there, literally the Sata ports no longer exist for all intents and purposes. If you had Sata port 4 used, that's not a shared lane, that's a different lane altogether, so storage would work there, but that wouldn't affect the nvme.