Looking for a little assistance and help :)

Nagual

Nagual
Hi there everyone,

I thought I had gotten rid of my Vive issues. But it seems not so. I was getting a lot of missed frames, so much that it was like a Saturday night dance party. I disabled anything relating to onboard graphics, and that seemed to help. However it's still there. Not only that but I recently ran VRMark and was shocked at how badly my system is showing up as.

http://www.3dmark.com/vrm/21275291

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The most obvious thing is the RAM, but it shouldn't be throttling me back this much.
 

TorTorden_VR

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Really shouldn't be that low.

I have a 4790k, 1080ti gaming x, and 16GB of 2400MHZ RAM. And score 10990 on the same test.
I did notice a significant drop in performance when I forgot to apply the xmp profile to my RAM and they where clocked to 1333mhz.
 

dutchy2000

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Plus it looks like he has 3 sticks, which would disable the DD part of the DDR memory right, so the memory rate is lower. I don't know if that is still an issue or not.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Nagual said:
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. F8 08/12/2014
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OK - that's the latest release for your board, as far as I can tell.

I don't see Corsair 8Gb modules listed as supported at 1330, just the 4Gb ones, but plenty 8Gb at 1600 and up. Find the exact module type you have, look them up on the memory support doc

http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-Z87-HD3-rev-1x#support-doc

and set your BIOS to those settings and test again.

As mentioned above - are there only three modules plugged in? Is the fourth non-functional? You'll be dropping down to single-channel if so, and some boards go very funny with modules in the "wrong" banks if they are expecting certain configurations.

Try populating just one bank - on your board the primary is both black slots - leave the greys empty. If that doesn't work, do it the other way.
 
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Nagual

Nagual
I had a sneaky feeling my CPU was getting thermo-blocked. Seems I was right. Opened my case and positioned a cold air fan at the CPU fan and re-ran the test a couple of times. A slightly more respectable 5K but with HWMonitor running I could see the core clock getting throttled back with the temps were high, and they were at 99c - stock fan cooler running at 100%. So have ordered a new cooler, a couple of case fans and a new PSU for the hell of it.
 

TorTorden_VR

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99 celsius on a cpu would certainly do it.
I'm surprised your bios didn't throw alarms and shutdown.
thought Intel cpus had a shutoff set by default to 80c or something.

I'm running a h75 all in one liquid cooler on my CPU and usually hold at around 65 C full load.
And yes those stock Intel coolers are really the absolute minimum.
 

Dibiase

Dibiase
Nagual said:
I had a sneaky feeling my CPU was getting thermo-blocked. Seems I was right. Opened my case and positioned a cold air fan at the CPU fan and re-ran the test a couple of times. A slightly more respectable 5K but with HWMonitor running I could see the core clock getting throttled back with the temps were high, and they were at 99c - stock fan cooler running at 100%. So have ordered a new cooler, a couple of case fans and a new PSU for the hell of it.
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Even with the stock cooler it shouldn't run anywhere near that hot. You might try removing and reinstalling the stock cooler until your new one arrives.
 

TorTorden_VR

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Dibiase said:
Even with the stock cooler it shouldn't run anywhere near that hot. You might try removing and reinstalling the stock cooler until your new one arrives.
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That's my main gripe with the stock cooler.
I have never been able to re-install one satisfactory.
I bought the h75 after I had to swap motherboards and noticed my CPU was running at about 75 c.
I blame those plastic hook things I they deform as soon as you try to remove the cooler.

But yeah when running this hot I suspect something to really be amiss.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
TorTorden said:
I blame those plastic hook things I they deform as soon as you try to remove the cooler.
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They are marked rather counter-intuitively. I've seen more than one person damage either the push-pulls, the barbs or even the motherboard itself by not realizing it's a push-pull, or that the curved arrows point to the removal position.
 

Dibiase

Dibiase
TorTorden said:
That's my main gripe with the stock cooler.
I have never been able to re-install one satisfactory.
I bought the h75 after I had to swap motherboards and noticed my CPU was running at about 75 c.
I blame those plastic hook things I they deform as soon as you try to remove the cooler.

But yeah when running this hot I suspect something to really be amiss.
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I haven't done a stock cooler in a little while but I remember they were a little tricky to get right. They do a pretty good job of showing it in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qczGR4KMnY might be worth a shot while your waiting for the new cooler.
 

TorTorden_VR

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I'm not the one with the problem.
I'm just saying the stock cooler leaves a lot of room for there to be a problem.

If you do make a mistake with the plastic push-pull it might well enough be impossible to get a good fit again.

A non-stock cooler is often a really good idea for any system.
And they are often much hardier for when you need to reseat or upgrade.
 

Nagual

Nagual
Dust. Dust is evil. So yeah I went further into my case, exploring. Had my hard hat on and goggles 'n' everything. Cleaned out the stock cooler. It wasn't too bad, but there was some dust.

And now I give you:



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Nagual

Nagual
And with a little further adjusting settings...

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Compared to what a horrid score I was getting.... I'm pretty happy.
 

TorTorden_VR

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And here's my counter.

XMP ON: 10722 (honestly it fluctuates a couple hundred points between boots)
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XMP OFF: 9400
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Just during the test itself, I was getting a stable 30fps more with the XMP profile activated.
 
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TorTorden_VR

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dape said:
sometimes the automatic XMP profiles do not seem to work well. Have you tried setting the timings manually in the BIOS? You can get a XMP readout with CPU-Z to find out about the correct timings of your Ram.
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Indeed.
So again the mantra becomes to test for yourself.
The xmp profiles are really just rubber stamp overclocking profiles.

If they work for you brilliant. If not well bummer.

@CMDR ATIMO
What speed does your RAM run at when not in XMP profile ?
 

CMDR ATIMO

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2.934 ram that's with CPU clock 4.6 Ram stock settings no XMP 1071x2=2142
Mhave had some trouble setting at 3000Mhz manually in bios need more stress testing and fine tuning
specs
CPU:Intel Core i7 6700K-4.6 overclock
Ek Waterblocks CPU-GPU acrylic Custom loop
Ek Ekoolant Pastel RED
RAM:Corsair DDR4 32GB 3000MHz
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (os installed)
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB (Games)
WD Black 1TB (Games)
OS:Windows 10 Home
MB:MAXIMUS VIII GENE
PSU:HX850i Corsair
GPU1:1080GTX Ti (mild overclock)
Core Clock +150 Memory Clock +400
Display HL BDM4065 40" 4K
VRoculus Rift
H.O.T.A.S X55
 
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