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Use GPUZ and run the Bus Interface test. (It is the little question mark next to Bus Interface)
I️ will tell you if you are running in PCI- 3.0 or 2.0 or 1.0 with the added bonus of giving you all the other information.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Great program to monitor GPU.
According to your messages in other subreddits, you playing GTA V, which is a very CPU-intensive game. But even like that, it's hard to say if you're CPU or GPU bottlenecked. So, you should try a simple thing to check it out using GTA V (it's viable for any game):
I. The experiment
- (1) Install and run GPUz (Some help here)
- (2) Install and run NVIDIA GeForce Experience to check out your FPS (Some help here)
- (3) Choose a repeatable sequence to run (Ex: any in-game cinematic introducing a job)
- (4) Max out your game settings (resolution included) and put it in windowed mode
- (5) Run the sequence and report your FPS. In the same time, check GPUz and report GPU + CPU loads.
- (6) Lower your resolution by one notch
- (7) Re-run steps (5) and (6) for like 3 or 4 times until you reached a very low resolution (Ex: 1366*768)
II. The results
How to read your results:
- GPU load decreases, CPU load and FPS don't change -> CPU bottlenecked / Thermal issue with your CPU
- GPU load + FPS don't change, CPU load decreases -> GPU bottlenecked
- GPU + CPU load decreases, FPS don't change or increases -> Normal behaviour
III. The "what should i do"
- Use your results and find the best settings to play without lowered FPS or terrible quality
BTW, you don't seems to give a single f**k about your post, so i'm loosing my time, but it's still a good advice for people here :)
Yeah... now you know why we don't like SLI, it isn't a well made technology (for most applications). PUBG is particularly infamous for losing performance with an SLI configuration.
We can walk through a couple of things if you like, but I recommend just not using SLI and returning the second card.
First have a look at your PCIe lanes with GPU-Z, what does it show for each card in the "Bus Interface" field?
What does it show in GPU-Z? To be honest though, I strongly suspect you're simply mistaken and you have a GTX 650 TI. Every instance I can remember of people coming on here (/r/techsupport) with a problem like this, and it has happened many times, it was a mistake by the poster.
The detection for the Resizable BAR BIOS and CSM options are incorrect:
http://jedi95.com/ss/cfa5f02d5fc00eae.png
Resizable BAR is enabled, and CSM is disabled.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/gkuab
NCVP reports "enabled" for Resizable BAR. GPU-Z's Graphics Card page also correctly reports Resizable BAR is enabled.
The other fields are reported correctly.
Specs:
Ryzen 9 5950X
Asus Crosshair VIII Hero Wifi BIOS 3501 (AGESA 1.2.0.2)
EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 (w/Resize BAR BIOS)
Mostly everything. The processor is very old and weak, there's only 4GB of RAM (but don't buy any more blindly just yet), the GPU is quite old as well, etc....
What is your budget ?
What are your performance expectations ? What kind of games do you want to play, at what settings ?
Do you know which GPU of the HD 6900 series that is ? If you don't, please run GPU-Z and take a screenshot. Or look directly at the sticker on the back of the graphics card and tell us the model number written there.
Well, it's all in the sidebar, but here you go: GPU-Z will show you your GPU and VRAM clock speeds, CPU-Z will tell you your processor clock speed, memory clock and timings.
Edit: I understand that you probably won't know what to do with all that information. If you just post a bunch of screenshots, we will figure it out together from there.
Ask him to download GPU-Z and send you a screenshot of all the info it displays. Should look like THIS. It can say it is an RX 480, but still check if it has the correct number of compute units and shaders like shown HERE. That he cannot fake. If you can meet with him and test it in a computer you could check it by yourself. The application is very lightweight.
If don't have a chance of doing any of that. Just pray. A 470 wouldn't be so bad.
One alternative would be to download and run GPU-Z. It doesn't require installation but IIRC, requires administrative rights. It should give you the details.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Just to add here as well, I had a problem like this on a build in the past where I definitely had the gpu in the right slot but it was being throttled to x2 - never did figure out what was causing it but downloading gpu z from here https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ showed the problem as it shows the bus interface speed on the main screen, check that it's showing pci 3.0 x16 @ 16
You can use CPUID HWmonitor to monitor all the tempurature sensors in your computer. The Classic version is the free one.
Also GPU-Z will be able to show you more detailed information and monitoring of your GPU.
Not sure what you can use for the RGB control.
GPU-Z will show you the card name, subvender (EVGA, ASUS, etc), and the device ID - you can google everything in the device ID and one of the first links will be the TechPowerUp page for the exact card. For example, 10DE 1B06 3842 6390 in the Device ID can be googled and it turns out to be an EVGA Founder's Edition 1080 Ti. You can get the exact model with that.
The guy you're replying to is wrong. Your system isn't junk (it isn't high-end, but it isn't junk), and it shouldn't be dropping frames in Hearthstone.
What you need to do is isolate the simplest case of the problem that you can. Close all unnecessary background programs, disconnect from the internet and run a benchmark. That can be an actual benchmarking utility like Unigine Heaven (free here), or just a game that you think typifies the problem (again, it should be offline though).
Open up GPU Z (free here), go under the sensors tab, and check on it while the benchmark/game is running. Let it go for a while and keep on eye on temperatures and GPU load. If temps are getting higher than about 80C, it's probably a GPU thermal issue (ie your graphics card is getting too hot). Alternately, if you're getting framerate drops while your GPU load is less than 100%, that means your graphics card is being bottlenecked, possibly because your CPU is maxed out with background programs/antivirus, etc.
Your system memory utilization could be another culprit. Check task manager to see how much memory is in use while you're benchmarking. Make sure all 8GB isn't being used. Whatever the case, there's going to be more steps to take from there.
Go ahead and message me if you need help.
This leads me to think that your GPU might be overheating, causing itself to underclock to keep itself safe from high heat temperatures or another component, like the CPU if the CPU gets too hot then it will also underclock or stay at a base clock to keep the temperature from rising and this could then lead to the GPU being "bottlenecked" while it is over heating because it cannot keep up.
Please post your computer specs along with temperature reports along with it so we can help you out a little bit better please.
A simple tool to do monitoring would be HWINFO and you can also grab GPUZ, GPUZ actually tells you why the graphics card is throttling or limiting itself, If you install GPUZ run overwatch and scroll down to the bottom and check PerfCap Reason, hover over the moving chart and that might give you a heads up as to why it's throttling down.
Hope this helps.
I only have a Vega but I guess it works the same for Navi. Download GPU-Z and it shows which memory (Hynix or Samsung) your card is using.
That is inaccurate. I can guarantee 100% load is on the cards when mining. Use GPU-z to get accurate numbers. It will also tell you what brand of memory your cards have.
Which driver version are you running? What resolution are you aiming to play at?
Meanwhile, which GT555m do you have? There are two revisions based on the GF106 and GF108 GPUs, from the GeForce 400-series. While each are not up to par - slower than a GTX 260 which is minimum - they should as you correctly state play the game, and also support DX11 so Horizons is a go too.
You can find out your exact GT555m by running GPU-Z.
Also of note is on some configurations ED states it's using the integrated graphics (Intel in your case) when it's actually using the dedicated card. The way to test this is by selecting the integrated using the control panel and re-benchmarking FPS in-game.
in my experience, artefacting has been because of something physically wrong with my graphics card, like running at high temp/overheating. but also i've had issues with certain games and radeon cards...i don't use radeon anymore. what kind of card is it and does it happen in other games? i'll assume your drivers are correct and up to date.
edit: also attempting to make the card run outside its capability can do this, so as long as you haven't tried to overclock or force certain settings then that rules a lot out
i use gpu-z to monitor my card when i feel like it might be necessary: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ that'll show you the temperature to see if it's because of overheating.
92c definitely seems a bit high, and might cause the card to thermal throttle (i.e reduce performance to reduce temp and avoid damage to the card). If you're worried, I'd download GPU-Z - go to the sensors tab - and check PerfCap Reason while gaming.
For the graphics card if I were to guess maybe a GTX 1650 or 1660, although it’s near impossible to tell because some manufacturers use the same cooling design amongst gpu generations.
For the ram stick it’s impossible to know for sure just by looking at it.
For the record, you can find the exact model and chipset of both if you put them in a pc and check task manager (under the performance tab). That’s the basics, but GPU-Z will give you an exact description on your graphics card. Sometimes third party sellers will try to bamboozle you by changing some code on the graphics card to make it appear like it’s a higher model in task manager, but GPU-Z reads directly from the chip so that will give you the most accurate/true information if that’s a worry.
When you get a chance I would check for BIOS updates but be careful and dont do it at a time where it is more likely for you to loose power unless you are on UPS. Make sure ram stick placement is correct, 0100 for one stick, 0101 for two and 1111 for 4.
Use GPU-Z to check PCIE Link speed for graphics card. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
> Do you maybe know if there is a way to know for sure?
This [list] at Overclock.net seems pretty authoritative.
Also, if you've got the card in hand I've read that if the "Device ID" in GPU-Z has "1E87" in it that it's the 400A, while the non-A variant uses "1E82".
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Screenshot of first Tab & 2nd Tab after having only GW2 and GPU-Z open for a couple minutes - nothing
(includes browsers and discord!) else.
Do screenshots with printscreen or GPU-Z camera icon.
If you don't know how to physically tell the difference by looking at the GPU's:
Run GPU-Z to see what GPU you have.
If it's not showing what you expect, in order to make absolutely certain they have (or haven't) swapped your GPU, run DDU to completely remove all traces of your current drivers.
Once all drives are removed, run GPU-Z again to confirm the first results.
Side note: Do you also know what motherboard / CPU / Ram you're meant to have?
GPU-Z is a handy, standalone, utility to list the actual bandwidth used by your GPU: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Might be easier than looking for your manual, motherboard etc. I recently build a new system and the CPU-cooler blocked the first PCI-e slot so I thought about putting the GPU in the second. However I noticed in the manual that the second is limited to x8 and only the first is capable of running at x16..
I did a little testing from what I suspected it could be, so I opened GPU-Z and had a look at what was happening. On YouTube I ran a video and right clicked> "Stats for nerds" and took a look at the "Codecs" line.
I notice that the sharpening filter in the nVidia control panel works on Windows 7 Firefox Nightly only if the "Video Engine Load" graph shows any load, i.e. from a video with (for my card) h264 codecs. If it runs a webm/opus codec it stops working and GPU-Z fills the "GPU Load" graph instead.
My suspicion was that Firefox is trying to repeat what Chrome and Edge does but it can't when YouTube serves it a codec that the card doesn't support. I would say that try an extension like h264ify and see if that fixes the problem. For all videos, you need to type about:config?filter=webm into the url bar and then disable media.webm.enabled
You can download CPU-Z and GPU-Z to see the CPU and GPU information. Once you do that, let me know what the specs are and I can give you some pointers! :)
CPUZ = http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html (Download the .exe version)
Hi /u/SW_User,
As /u/AZN193684 said, a warning citing memory generally does not refer to GDI Objects but it does not hurt to raise that limit. Run this file on your system to go ahead and raise the GDI Object limit within your Windows Registry then reboot the computer to allow the setting change to take effect:
If the GDI Object limit has been raised and the warning persists then it is most likely due to the VRAM (the memory on your video card) usage. Errors with memory don’t generally differentiate between RAM and VRAM. Windows also does not have a built in way to measure how much of your VRAM is in use at any given time. There is a tool that you can download and use to observe this though called GPU-Z (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/). Try downloading this and see how much of the VRAM is in use when these warnings come up.
The GDI Objects limit has been around for a while and could be your low resource but recently low VRAM is much more common. So, this error could be referring to VRAM. Windows also does not have a built in way to measure how much of your VRAM is in use at any given time. There is a tool that you can download and use to observe this though called GPU-Z (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/). Try downloading this and see how much of the VRAM is in use when these warnings come up. If the VRAM memory used is approaching the physical limit of your card then you found your culprit.
assuming that everything is set to "performance"
I'm thinking it may be a thermal throttling issue.
Download gpuz, click the "sensors" tab (set the sensor update rate to around 3-5seconds) and recreate the lag in LoL. As soon as it's lagging, use alt-tab to return to gpuz (probably in system tray). See if there is a drop in the core clock.
which R7 200 do you have
use https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ to find out
if you are on a budget, a RX 470 is a better bang for buck card ( and even better if you got freesync monitor or are you planing of getting a new monitor anytime soon?)
here is the worst case senario aka 240 vs 470
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-R7-240-vs-AMD-RX-470/m8608vs3640
While I'm not sure why it's not detecting it properly, more VRAM =/= more performance unless you're running out of VRAM in the first place (unlikely unless you're playing at higher resolutions than you really should be with a 1050 Ti). Running out of VRAM also has different kind of performance degradation, leading to a more stuttery feel, rather than just plain frame-rate loss.
That's not exactly a fool-proof site anyways. Download and open GPU-Z - if it says you have the right amount of VRAM, don't worry about what CanYouRunIt says.
For those unsure or wondering what their current system supports, download GPU-Z.
It will tell you everything you need to know about your GPU(s). It's freeware, and no installation is necessary. Just run it.
Check that Windows power settings are set to high performance. Can you run this? http://www.userbenchmark.com/ and link the results
And also would be interesting if you'd monitor for example the CPU core clock speeds with: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Check the CPU Core temperatures too with that same program. and GPU core clock speeds with: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Check that Windows power settings are set to high performance.
Can you run this? http://www.userbenchmark.com/ and link the results
And also would be interesting if you'd monitor for example the CPU core clock speeds with: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Check the CPU Core temperatures too with that same program.
and GPU core clock speeds with: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
What GPU do you have specifically? The R7 200 series includes cards like the R7 240 and 250, both of which are shit.
Use a program called GPU-Z to identify the card based on transistor count and memory size.
Is your computer in a power mode other than high performance?
Are all the fans functioning correctly to avoid overheating?
I think your CPU should be fine to be honest. It is extremely close to the recommended 4590 in performance, and better than the 6400 found in some Oculus ready rigs: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=828&cmp%5B%5D=2234&cmp%5B%5D=2578
But your GPU looks like its scoring a bit below normal, though not by too much. What specific 970 is it? Run the benchmark again but make sure everything else is closed (web browsers included). Check your task manager and make sure there's no stray processes or programs using up CPU cycles.
Also get this program and run it when you do the benchmark: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Click the "sensors" tab and see what the temperatures and core clock go up to during the benchmark. You'll be able to see if it's overheating or not reaching its max speed.
Lastly try setting your PC's power options to "Maximum Performance" if it isn't already.
I'd check with something like GPU-Z, and see if it still reports as 2gb, it seems EXTREMELY unlikely that your card would be working so well if 4gb of it had somehow failed.
Seems like you should have much better performance on that rig and I'd like to help out. Hopefully, if we can figure out what's happening, it may help other people with perfectly good machines.
If you're willing to spend some time on this, I would just need the following:
1) A player log. You can find it in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\rust\RustClient_Data\output_log.txt
2) Screenshots from GPU-Z Graphics card and Sensor tabs (while playing the game; window mode is fine). Here's an example: Graphics Card tab shot, Sensors tab shot
3) Screenshots of Rust's Options menu showing the Graphics and Performance tabs
4) The server you're playing on
Something is overheating or your ram is going bad.
Highly suspect it's the video card since those patterns are created when a poly is attempted to be drawn but just never stops since one of the points is drawn incorrectly leading to triangles drawing up to the sky.
*Fans - check them that they are spinning. I hear a high buzzing in the video. If it's something like a window fan pointing into your PC, that is not a proper solution.
*Overheating - turn off all OC's now. You need to narrow down what is breaking and OC just messes everything up.
*Underpowered - PSU's, especially cheap ones, CAN get worse over time. Is this some no name 400watt PSU trying to power a current gen nvidia 970 or something?
Some tests
Track your GPU heat temps while playing. Your GPU should not ever hit above 100c. Even 90 is really pushing it. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Track your CPU heat temps. 60c max. AMDs sometimes run a bit warmer, but 70 is right out. Bad things happen to your CPU when it hits 80c. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
Theres an application called CPU-Z that gives you a lot of info on your mainboard (CPU/RAM/Mainboard/GPU):
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
Another application called GPU-Z which does the same for your GPU board:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
They can run as non-install exe files to get you the info you want (and then some)
He admitted to being an amateur and I'm an intermediate at best and I never use those programs. Not knocking them - just saying - it's a solid tip for a power user but for him and me? gpu-z, that cpu one and that's pretty much sufficient. Not to mention - checking the actual ingame settings or using the diax site someone else posted.
But whatever, night folks!
You can check the GPU utilization(LOAD %) with something like GPU-Z
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
So, you should try loading up Witcher 3 at 1080p. Or some other games. Then play a while. Then check if the load ever hit 96-100% mark or not, like it should.
Vsync or vertical sync needs to be turned off so you have unlocked max fps.
If the load then never hits 96-100% you are being held back by the CPU and not graphics card.
Ey hi again, I think you're the same one who had computer troubles a couple of months back :O Anyway since you said it's a laptop, then it's only natural for the monitor to be built into it.
The first thing we can try is to check the temperature of your laptop. Are you running tons of programs or doing lots of stuff at once before it restarts, or does it just happen randomly whether or not you're doing anything? High temperatures can cause certain hardware to shutdown in order to protect itself from overheating.
You can try a program called GPU-Z to check your laptop's temperature, just be sure to pick the one that corresponds to the operating system you have :D
If it's not very hot (80c and above is what I consider very hot), then it's time to check for little ugly viruses or malware. Use Malwarebytes for this purpose. Download it if you haven't already, update it to the latest version, disconnect your laptop from your internet connection temporarily (so that whatever crappy virus or malware won't be able to re-download itself after being cleaned) and then run a FULL SCAN (leave it like that for an hour or so depending on your laptop's speed).
If you find the viruses/malware stuff, then be sure to let Malwarebytes kill them and make sure to restart your PC. Run another Full Scan just to be safe and if nothing's been found, try to play around with your laptop and see if it still shuts down.
If it still shuts down even after cleaning the nasty viruses/malware (or if it didn't find any), then it might be a hardware issue... specifically RAM :O Use MEMTEST to check your laptop's RAM for problems (again, be sure to download the one for your operating system) and see what kind of problem it finds.
If it doesn't find anything wrong with your RAM... oh wow, better bring the problem to a more technical subreddit hahaha :D
Good luck :)
>My GPU is an AMD Radeon 200 Series. (I don't have the box anymore and cannot find out which model in the 200 series it is.)
Run GPU-z.. You'll find a "shaders" number. What is that number?
UE4 dev here :)
This can be fixed by increasing the texture streaming pool, the default is pretty tame at 1Gb VRAM.
The console command is as follows:
| r.Streaming.PoolSize xxxx |where xxxx is the amount of VRAM you want ark (or any UE4 game) to use for texture streaming.
(copy and paste, capital sensitive.)
you can typically set this number to 70-80% of your VRAM, which can be found by running GPUZ from TechPowerUp
Very possible there’s something else going on as well. You could have some thermal throttling causing that. How’s your case airflow? I’d recommend taking a look at gpuz or another tool to understand what’s going on a bit further:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
GPU-Z, I'd prefer to measure the power draw straight from the wall because software isnt that great at reading it but its still a good idea of what its using really. I think HWInfo64 and HWmonitor can also see wattage reported being pulled.
There is just so much to go over in those pictures, I didn't really see anything that stood out except the X on the Chipset readings.
Temps look fine, clock speeds fine, although there should be a lower speed in min, which means your probably running on a high performance power profile (in the control panel) rather than balanced, so your computer is using more power than it needs to at idle times.
Drive smart status looks fine, but it looks like there is only 1 drive that has it listed, but I doubt this is an issue anyway.
So, personally, I'd start with updating drives for the Motherboard and Graphics card and see if that changes anything.
You can find the Motherboard drives if you google your motherboard model. It will be on the manufacturers page for it under Support. Download each driver for each component and install. Install the latest for your graphics card too.
CPUID HWmonitor, download the one under 'classic version', it's the free one. Use it and play a game, see if anything is reaching a high temperature. GPU/CPU, Idle tempuratures (not doing anything) don't mean much, it's when the computer is under load that counts.
Also try GPU-Z, play a game with it running and look in the sensors tab, this will show you what your Graphics Card is doing, if the clock speed is changing because your playing a game, the load on your GPU (although this can be low depending on game).
Download and install GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
First tab "Graphics Card" you'll see "Subvendor" (EVGA, etc.) and then a "Device ID" number. Type that Device ID number into Google and you should get your exact model.
EDIT: You can also check the Device ID in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Bottom left corner, "System Information".
Your post doesn't identify what application you're using to mine. That would be helpful. Mining with NiceHash QuickMiner and under/overclocking the dGPU with OCTune is much easier and better for some.
Who's your maker of GPU VRAM? Use GPU-Z to identify. This would help the laptop mining community to identify if it's your VRAM that's the bottleneck or something else.
Look it up on the internet. For most cards they only use one generation of ddr, there are exceptions like the gt 1030 which can have ddr4 or ddr5. If your card could have different memory GPUz can tell you which, or you can look at the memory chips themselves under the cooler. Unless you suspect it's being faked looking in software is good enough.
I'm curious who is the VRAM supplier of your GPU. Use GPU-Z to find out. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ I'm thinking that your VRAM is the reason why your GPU is crippled at mining.
As for ETH 2.0 doomsday for miners, there are other coins to mine, just not as profitable. NiceHash QuickMiner mines ETH via DaggerHashimoto.
The processors boot command is for debugging and messing with it won't give you more processing capability. PCI lock can cause your system to BSOD if an IRQ conflict occurs and should only be used if you have done some reading and know what you are trying to do.
Your CPU usage is low because your GPU is at 100% and thus the CPU can't push more frames to the GPU for rendering so the CPU backs off.
You need to figure out why the GPU is pegging at 100% and once you fix that then your CPU usage will either fix itself or you can then troubleshoot that issue.
GPUZ is a well respected app to do GPU troubleshooting with https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
2 things that I can think of, your hardware is fine.
1, there is a crypto currency minor running on your computer, using up CPU and/or GPU usage, so your frames are dropping because of it.
Run a scan with Malwarebytes and see if it picks anything up.
2nd thing it could be, overheating, CPU or GPU overheating and then thermal throttling to prevent damage.
CPUID HWmonitor you can see what your CPU and GPU temperatures are reaching with this program. Run it, then run the game.
Might be a good idea to also run GPU-Z so you can see what your GPU is doing in the sensor tab, open the game with GPU-Z running and see if your GPU clock speed changes to max.
What exact motherboard did you buy? Are you sure you're looking at the right manual? I can faintly see ROG Strix Z490-E in one of the pictures, but I'm not 100% sure.
Because that motherboard has three x16 sized slots, if you look at the picture. An x1, a grey x16, probably an m.2 slot, another x1, another grey x16, a third x1, (with cmos and another m.2 next to it), and a third x16 but grey this time. If this is your motherboard, you're plugged into that middle slot, which means you're good. And the third x16 is hidden behind graphics card.
Above, I wasn't referring to the electrical properties of the slots, but the physical sizes. There are only x16 and x1 of slots, typically. However, electrically, they can be whatever multiple of two. Ergo, maybe being x8 (x16 bifurcated into two slots), or maybe being x4 (chipset lanes).
Not all PCIe slots are the same, unfortunately. And you can quite probably still use them. But gaming performance can be severely impacted by using one with too little speed (so either too few lanes or too old of a generation).
If you can send the product page, or send a pic of the product box, or otherwise give any info, that would be great. Or download and look at GPUz, which should show the speed under Bus Interface. E.g. mine is "PCIe x16 4.0 @ x16 4.0". Hopefully yours is "PCIe x16 4.0 @ x8 3.0", since yours is an Intel motherboard with only Gen 3 speeds (which should give a slight but not huge speed decrease). Rather than "PCIe x16 4.0 @ x4 3.0" which would hurt a lot.
Found some other things to try. I forgot to ask which Nvidia driver version are you using, and have you tried older versions?
You might try this as well:
>Is your Windows power plan and Nvidia Control Panel settings set to High Performance and prefer high performance respectively?
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>Download GPU-Z if you haven't already and when playing a game, open up GPU-Z and go into the Sensors tab and go down to PerfCap Reason. Does it state any reason for the performance limit? They can be either one of the following:
- Reliability. Indicating perf is limited by reliability voltage.
- Operating. Indicating perf is limited by max operating voltage.
- Power. Indicating perf is limited by total power limit.
- Thermal. Indicating perf is limited by temperature limit.
- Idle. Indicating perf is limited by GPU utilization.
check your game settings. if you have them on low (like you said in another comment) it expectable as the game tries to optimize.
If you have a RTX3090 (and a matching system) it should run 60fps+ easily on 1440p, Raytracing and Ultra everything (DLSS on quality)
If not check your system, and dont use task manager as it doesnt monitor your system very well.
use something like this (cpuZ and gpuZ) https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
The second hand market has usually good price/performance, but you need to be carefull. Sometimes people either sell faulty cards or cards that have their BIOS modified to claim the card is better/more expensive model than it really is.
Check what GPU-Z says about the card.
See the SLOTS section. Both slots are x16. When both are in use, the top one is x16 and the bottom one is x4. If there is only one in use, it functions in x16 mode.
Also, using GPU-Z you can determine what the PCI-e is running at
Typically its a balancing act, you want to undervolt enough to lower Temps but at the same time keep performance.
A good place to start is would be to max out your power +50%. Then put state 6 and 7 at the same voltage as state 5 (usually around 1000 or 1050). Change your fan curve and run your bench and see if its stable while keeping an eye on your Temps and hotspot* (I use GPU-Z to monitor my temps https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ )
If everything is good and it is stable and your temps are lower you can start increasing your state 6 and state 7 by increments of 50 until you either have artifacts or you don't see any difference in performance.
As a side note the more volts you put into the card the more heat it will generate.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Try running that and see what it shows up as.
Did you buy it new or used? even new, sometimes people return fake cards where they take the casing off the new card, put it on their old one and send it back.
See what GPU-Z shows, it should be able to read the card's specifications off of the graphics card.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
You have a pcie slot, probably version 2.0,but the standard is forward compatible so you can use any modern pcie 3.0 card.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-hd/ati-radeon-hd-5000-series/ati-radeon-hd-5750
Installing the most recent drivers for your OS is probably the simplest way to get your display resolution recognized.
Yeah something is very wrong with your PC, and it seems system-wide. From the screenshot there's no issue with thermal throttling, all the frequencies (CPU core, GPU core, VRAM) are where they should be, etc...
Last thing I can think of is that there's an issue with the PCIe connection between your GPU and motherboard.
Download GPU-Z and follow this to check the speed of the connection. You have to run the render test to put load on the GPU, and the connection should read "PCI-Express x16 v3.0", given your motherboard.
If that's not it, maybe try a clean install of Windows before sending the machine back because there's probably something wrong with it.
I'd check with GPU-Z. There has been cases of old GPU's being flashed with modified bios that claims that it's a newer GPU. GPU-Z should be able to tell if it is. And might give other good info, like temperatures etc.
It’s only about 10-15% better than the HD 4600. The advantage is that the GPU load isn’t on the system memory or CPU, so there’s more resources for non-GPU computing. It’s mostly to meet ISV standards, not for gaming performance. There’s no point in getting a new motherboard, the T440p is more than capable of cooling a 47W cpu and the dGPU.
GPU-Z will show you the load on the iGPU and dGPU for you to determine which one is being used.
If you just installed the GPU, I'm assuming it was an upgrade. Make sure you uninstall previous drivers first via DDU, then install graphics card, then install new drivers.
^ What are your PC specifications, where are you based out of, how long do you game on the card?
I have an RX 480, will share the Wattman settings for the same. Highly recommended that you check your GPU's ASIC quality as well via GPU-Z.
Yes the VRAM. The graphics card’s memory. This sounds like one of the bad early issued RTX cards. Does it have Micron or Samsung memory? GPUz utility will show it.
Usually, most of the cases, the bottleneck is always the GPU in VR-games. To make sure this is the case you can simply lower some of the more heavier video settings and see if it has any effect, if it does, great, you found your bottleneck.
However, if it doesn't seem to matter whether you lower your rendering resolution or disable your AA, then it is most likely your CPU being the limiting factor. When a CPU is the bottleneck it is often caused by things like in-game physics or large amount of moving entities (multiplayer players for example). You obviously can't disable those and that is why when you are limited by the CPU your options too become limited. Basically you can then either overclock your CPU or reduce the view distance (of the drawn in-game objects), if the game allows and not many do. Fortunately being bound by the CPU is more rare as the devs are well aware of the consequences.
Beyond GPU & CPU the bottlenecks become super rare. To be bound by the system memory or hard drives you are going to need really old and super low-end stuff installed in your setup — and even then the problems are mostly isolated to loading times.
GPU-Z is a robust tool for monitoring your GPU. The sensors' tab holds many useful metrics for determining bottlenecks, like GPU load and GPU Temperature. Too high temperatures can throttle your GPU, meaning that the GPU artificially slows itself down. Same goes for the CPU. I use Real Temp for the CPU.
See what temps your getting during gaming.
CPUID HWmonitor (click under download for the free version) is also good, it will show you your CPU, GPU and various other temps and stats with Min/Max.
see what's going on when your gaming and getting that stuttering/lag ingame.
Try running GPU-Z when your gaming and see what tempuratures your getting.
If the fans are revving to 100%, it means your set tempurature or the one the drivers want to keep the card at are being exceeded, or it's reaching a dangerous tempurature so the fans are going to 100% to cool.
This might be due to dust buildup in the cards fans/heatsink preventing the card from cooling.
Use GPU-Z to find the exact model of GPU: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Then you can check the Sapphire site or the TechPowerUp GPU database. If there are multiple different models of Sapphire R9 280X (for instance), crack open the side of the case and have a butcher's.
Once you know that, you can check compatibility with the Accelero, or if it's even worth it (an R9 270 is less worth it than a R9 290, for instance)
Fans on computers, especially small ones wear out. Did you hear them blowing full speed? Also the heatsink fins could be full of dust. If the laptop were mine, I'd youtube/google how to take it apart. Good laptops come apart easily, while cheaper ones are a serious pain.
Cracking the cases would allow you to check the condition of the inside, clean the remote heatsinks and even clean then add good quality heatsink compound on the chips. It would also let you confirm the condition of the fan leads (power wires).
But before doing any of that, you need to check services and processes to see what is running while you're playing a game. If updates are being downloaded and installed at the same time, it will influence gameplay specs.
If you're getting a picture on the screen, then at least one gpu is running. Many good laptops have more than 1 gpu chipset onboard. A gpu checker like below will monitor temperatures and loads. If the values still don't make sense then there is an issue with drivers or the sensor has gone bad.
Check you have CUDA and OpenCL support on the driver/GPU.
Just install the free GPU-Z as this shows you per card if these are enabled; this software is also rebranded and bundled by a few GPU producers, just so you know its safe and good.
id say something is improperly cofigured with your fan, and when the gpu is under high load during the game and without the fan functioning properly it shuts down either to save itself from damage or because its just so hot it fails and crashes.
well, one way to for sure know is to test this theory by installing GPU-Z ( https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ ) then going to the Sensors tab, and checking the box that says 'Log to file'.
Let GPU-Z log while you play your game and it recreates the crash OR play for awhile and check the log to see if the temps go above normal operating range.
I would install GPU-Z and run it during the game to see what is exactly going on. I found out that I had a crypto miner on my PC because I would get horrible FPS during games randomly and with GPUZ running it was more obvious.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
You can paste a screenshot of it while game is running here.
https://tpucdn.com/gpuz/screen2-v1527779080443.gif
Will look like this
So, I got my RAM module yesterday and the system is running 2x8GB DDR4 2133 in dual channel mode now.
I must say - yeah! I'm not dropping below 120fps anymore although any values between 120 and 175 are being shown. I will never believe that this is the end of story, that the game is just too big and my system is now at its limit!
I downloaded GPU-Z in order to monitor the key parameters on my second screen - well that is what I discovered:
The GPU Core Clock is pending between something like 1600MHz and 800MHz all the time! The GPU Temperature is high as hell - 88°-91°C! This means, the GPU is throttling itself all the time down because it's Temperature Limit is set to 91°C... There's also the PerfCap Reason Value - Thermal!
Ingame there is the Resolution Scale setting and it was set to 200. Changed to 50 which means, that internal rendering resolution is the same like my screen's resolution (1920*1080) and - the GPU temperature did fall down!
Still, i believe Paladins has a super shitty optimization.
First thing to do is update your graphics drivers. It could be caused by your graphics drivers crashing.
Download and run GPU-Z whilst gaming, keep an eye on your graphics card tempurature. It could be caused by overheating, possibly dust buildup.
You should check if the card is running in x16 mode or at least in x8 mode. There is a chance it's running in x4 mode. The manual isn't very clear about that. Which will degrade performance. Either check the bios or use GPU-Z
Don't panic. It's probably an easy fix.
Download https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Check your temperatures.. if anything is in 80C-90C range than something is overheating and as a result throttling.
Download GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Do the same for your GPU.
What resolution do you game at? 1060 is a good GPU for 1080p but it will struggle with higher resolutions particularity in demanding games like Witcher 3.
In Witcher 3 disable hairworks and tune some graphics settings (like lower shadows, disable blur.. ) and see if that helps.
Probably reaching a really high temp. Most likely cause, dust buildup.
Monitor your temps for the Graphics card GPU-Z and CPU CPUID-HWmonitor (this should be able to read GPU temps as well)
first start by using DUU and update your GPU driver,
be sure you are using max perf in power management.
test another game or use benchmark and let it run for some time to check temps and if there is trotting with GPU-Z
use MSI afterburner to check also temps and gpu/cpu frequencies
BCZ your config is Overkill for Wows i have 4710hq and 970m and i run the game full with vsync 60fps all time
Use GPU-Z. It should show you the exact model and its specs.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Compare the specs to this table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series#GeForce_10_(10xx)_series
Oh, I thought you meant that you had two 6850 cards. I didn't realize that you were talking about a dual GPU.
The TechPowerUp article says that the specs are based on a ColorFire card. Is that the manufacturer of your card as well? If you have a different brand card, then it's possible it's a different variant with less VRAM.
You can also try using GPU-Z to see how much VRAM that says the card has.
Use this for GPU identification! https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
The GTX 1060 3GB would be a great option. Anything cheaper wouldn't be a worthwhile upgrade.
Mouse-wise, there are a lot of good ones. Depends on your price range. Budget would be the Logitech G102/G203, Nixeus Revel. More pricy ones would be the Logitech G403, G703, G603, and maybe the Roccat Kone Pure Owl-Eye.
You can also look into headphones, speakers, mechanical keyboards, xxl/desk mousepads, RGB lighting, etc. Tons of stuff.
I submitted the bios mod I did with the gpu-z unlocked nvflash combo from here. It should appear in the database for download in a day or so. I have a few of these older cards snatched up for cheap, might as well folding@home and mining the way it's mean to be. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/9sdh4
For minng xmr 49-60 C temps,
Hi ,
Ok firstly make sure the cards have correct and latest drivers installed , then you need to reflash the bios . On most card using Polaris Bios Editor master or 141 will do the trick . If using Samsung memory use SRB Polaris Bios Editor. You can check you cards using the following tool GPU-Z https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ Also Download ATI WinFlash https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-winflash/ and the correct version of Polaris Bios Editor. https://github.com/jaschaknack/PolarisBiosEditor
Ok open GPU-Z and it will tell you details regarding your system .There is a little square/arrow box . Click this to save the current Bios settings.Call it something like your card name .rom . So RX580original.rom . Save it . Open Polaris Bios Editor. It should bring your info up with the timings on the right. There is a line / lines that will have the 1750 strap details in it . so 0:1750 , 1:1750 or 2:1750 . Copy this and make sure you copy the whole strap . Paste this in to the 2000 strap . If you have dual os then you need to do this for both straps . Once done save as rx580mod.rom or something similar. Open ATIWinFlash as Administrator . Select your card and then there is a button to load your rom file . Load the new modded rom you have just made. Flash the card and reboot the pc. When it comes back on open your config or bat file for claymore Crypto miner . In here add the following parameter.
-h 900
Note you can add more as high as 1050 i think but you will get some errors the higher you go .
Try running your miner again and see what speed you are now on . You can further tweak it using msi afterburner
That still isn't quite specific enough... it's in the R9 200 series, but we need the model. It could be R9 270 or R9 290, etc. the dxdiag should've given that, but it didn't. A way I've never seen fail to get the model is to install gpu-z. That should tell you for sure.
Download GPU-Z onto your computer to find out what memory the card has. You have to have the card plugged into the computer which you have this software installed on to check which memory type it is.
You can use something like PassMark DiskCheckup, from their website:
> SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as 'Spin Up Time', the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the hard disk temperature.
You could check out CPU-Z and GPU-Z for info on the CPU and GPU, here's CPU-Z for example.
Others might have some other suggestions for an "all in one" type utility, but those are some that quickly come to mind...
Prebuilts assembler sometimes have access to some cards models that don't make it to the general public.
So I guess it could well be a RX 570 after all.
What does GPU-Z has to say about this ?
A program like GPU-Z will tell you which your primary enabled graphics card is. There's a portable version available so you don't have to install it just to check. You should be able to disable the onboard graphics through the BIOS. You can easily tell if your external GPU is being used if you hear its fans ramp up or it's warm directly behind the case where it's installed after gaming for a bit.
I can't really suggest anything except maybe run GPU-Z while it's running and seeing what happens in the charts?
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Also, 2.79 isn't officially released yet, is it? You might want to attach this to a bug report along with a thorough description of the system you're running it on if you can't figure out what's wrong.
For benchmarking? That is super easy and if they charge you for it they are being assholes.
Download the installer for GPU-Z and Unigine Heaven to a USB drive. Just ask to let it run for 5 minutes and watch the core temperature and frequency. Unless it is clocking really low (below boost clock) or getting really hot (mid 80's) then you are fine to buy it.
Grab GPU-Z, and check that your video card has a 16x PCI-e connection, and not a 1x connection. That's a common cause of this sort of pain for some-but-not-all games – because it happens if the game tries to move lots of data to and from the video card, and not all games do that.
Turn off ShadowPlay, the Microsoft game recorder thing, etc, and see if that improves things.
Check that you are not trying to load resources off a disk that is busy at the time. Terraria doesn't really try and work around that, so it may cause stuttering.
If you have mods, remove them all, and see if you can still reproduce it.
Run GPU-Z and grab a screenshot of both the Graphics tab and the sensors tab while playing and I can maybe offer some advice.
Would also be good to know your other computer hardware, though.