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My overclock, strange performance.

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deaNhaycH

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Basically, as you can see..The higher the CPU speed, the higher the CPU score and lower the SuperPI score.

But, its having a negative affect on gaming. The FPS lowers with higher speeds, in call of duty 2, which is the main game i play, the change is much more drastic. However it doesnt have a stress test so i can benchmark it.

At the moment, im settling for using ASUS O.C profile to switch between stock and 3.6GHz. 3.6GHz for general use, while folding 24/7. Then when i go to play games, i will reboot, go into BIOS and load the stock settings profile.

Judging from the CPU score and SuperPI score, i can assume 3.6GHz is faster for folding, however the gaming issue is baffling me.

Call of duty 2 runs at around 300-400fps running around the map on stock speeds, but at 3.6GHz its about 30-40fps. The CSS one isnt so bad, but at least it shows that it does have a negative affect, if there was a benchmark for COD2 I would of used that.

All of the overclocks are stable, btw. Theyre tested with 4 hours orthos and 30 minutes OCCT.

Is there anything wrong with this?

Is there anything I can actually do, or is this the only workaround for it?

Thanks for your time :)
 
There have been reports of the PCI-e lane for the video card dropping from its 16x lane to 1x lane in games for no apparent reason with that board.

You can check by alt tabbing out of the game and checking what cpu-z says about your motherboard . Look under the Motherboard tab, PCI Link Width. Its hard to catch keep trying.

As far as I know there is not a fix yet that works for everyone.
 
That is certainly very weird. What about dropping the OC a few notches and compromising? Maybe this will give you some stable video card performance while still giving you some decent CPU speed.
 
BillParrish said:
There have been reports of the PCI-e lane for the video card dropping from its 16x lane to 1x lane in games for no apparent reason with that board.

You can check by alt tabbing out of the game and checking what cpu-z says about your motherboard . Look under the Motherboard tab, PCI Link Width. Its hard to catch keep trying.

As far as I know there is not a fix yet that works for everyone.
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Beat me to it.

OP: Are you locking your PCIe frequency at 100mhz? Try 101 or 110mhz.
 
Im locking it at 100 yes.

Its actually seemed to fix itself for now, im getting my fps back in games, and its insane.

Its done this before, so no doubt eventually it will go back. I dont want to reboot now and try 101 or 110, so i'll try when the performance goes back down. Thanks.
 
deaNhaycH said:
Im locking it at 100 yes.

Its actually seemed to fix itself for now, im getting my fps back in games, and its insane.

Its done this before, so no doubt eventually it will go back. I dont want to reboot now and try 101 or 110, so i'll try when the performance goes back down. Thanks.
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Go to the motherboard tab in CPUz and see what it says for PCIe link width, next time it happens.
 
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