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new GPU = high ping?

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Mattnum

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Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded to an EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC, and new 700W PSU. Since then however I can't seem to play many online games because I get terrible lag spikes, and am inevitably kicked from a server. I can't test with me old GPU because I sent it to a buddy.

I tried doing some ping -t tests, and without gaming I have a solid 12-15 ms ping. When gaming (was testing with single player witcher2) I would get 12-15ms, rare 3000ms, and one long stretch of 1000+ ms I haven't been able to repeat.

I am wondering if my card is drawing too much power and sucking juice away from the network? This sounds totally crazy to me...but I don't know how else to explain it.

I do get rare system restarts after playing arma3. Only AFTER!! If it happens, I will be playing fine for however long, but when I go to quit, the system might restart then if at all. Not during intense moments.

My temps even in arma 3 are around 60-75 on GPU, 50-60 CPU. Which seems nice and low.

I was thinking of somehow testing voltages going to onboard network adapter (no idea how)...something I dunno.

Anyway my specs are:

SIlverstone 700W Strider PSU
SIlverstone SG08B case
Asus P8z77-I W/D itx mobo
i5 35070K (no O/C for the last week trying to solve this)
8 gb ram
1 SSD
1 HDD
Corsair H60 cooler
About 5 USB peripherals including M+KB, Xbox controller, TrackIR

ANy help would be greatly appreciated.

Mattnum
 
Your network issues are probably not related to your GPU or PSU upgrade. It's most likely just a coincidence. If you want to further test that though you can try playing online games that are a lot less demanding on your 780 Ti with settings turned all the way down. If the problem persists with other games that are less demanding then remove the 780 Ti and use the onboard graphics in those less demanding games and test network latency. If it persists then you know it's not the 780 Ti.

Drivers are more likely to interfere with network latency. Try downgrading to an older drivers to rule that out. Something from a few months ago, not the "latest" as it's not always the best.
 
Make sure if you test by using less demanding games/games with the graphics turned all the way down that you have vsync or some sort of frame limiting in place, otherwise you still might get quite a load (ie. huge framerates) on your 780 Ti.

A lot of the people I play with regularly have been having intermittent connection issues lately, mostly Time Warner customers though.
 
Yeah I'm a time warner customer and I've noticed latency issues lately. Throughput isn't hugely effected, but my ping to some places have been over 200 when normally it's 10% of that.
 
Sorry, I started running longer ping tests with system at idle. Latency does show up then. I will be fine for several minutes, and then 10-20 seconds of 1k-3k ping.

I guess I need to start the dance with tech support.
 
Done a ton of tracert and ping tests in normal and safe mode. I feel like when all Nvidia drivers and software are uninstalled (there a bunch that constantly run in the background) my ping is much much more consistent.But still has lag spikes..just farther a part.

Talked with ISP today and hopefully something will come of it.

Have read a bit about others experiencing increased ping with new Nvid softwares that are now mandatory installs.
 
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I was just going to say, nowadays the nVidia drivers install a bunch of crap by default so it may have affected your network settings or installed a different driver for your LAN/wifi I would check on that.
 
Thinking it could be power issue where GPU under load is taxing the PS and causing the CPU to throttle. Perhaps test monitoring your CPU clock and utilization while gaming.

Other possibility is GPU and NIC share PCI-E bus and for some reason GPU is taxing the PCI-E bus impacting NIC.

Now that I think about it I have two systems that are mostly identical with major difference being the GPU. On the system with Nvidia using certain driver versions, usually newer, frame rate sometimes drop down into single digit ~6 fps and the sound through PCI-E sound card is distorted. Didn't pay much attention to it but maybe the NIC which shares the PCI-E bus was affected too. Have to look into this further.
 
Not sure if your situation is the exact same, but I had a similar thing happen to me recently when I replaced my Radeon 6870 with a 7870. My internet would be doing fine then get lag spikes and I would get kicked from any online game/Citrix application. It was sometimes random, may get kicked every 4-5 min, may not happen for an hour but either way it always came back within 5-10 seconds.
I started running command prompt and using "ping -t 8.8.8.8" which pings a google server. You could see where it would hit the spikes and get "request time out". I called Brighthouse and told them and they sent out a technician that said "when I test your line all the numbers come back fine." I showed him the command window with strings of timeouts together and he said ok and replaced my modem while saying after a while the older modems will tend to drop more packets....4 modem changes later (seriously...4 to get one that would work) everything was fine.

It was just odd to happen right after a GPU exchange. Good luck man, I remember how frustrating it was!
 
Try resetting the TCP/IP stack and then reboot and see if it helps.

Run the command prompt as administrator, and then type this in and hit enter.

netsh int ip reset
 
my porn has been downloading slower the past couple of weeks. same gpu, but my area has had the winter freeze problems. just saying you might be looking at the wrong cause.
 
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