Low performance 980 sli in 3DMark Firestrike

[Aughrox]

Cant see that. You have to show the score after it is over, take a screenshot of when it's finished. Also run it at custom settings: DirectX 11, Ultra, Extreme, Disabled, Disabled, x8, 1920 x 1080. 

 

 

Looks Fine but it doesn't explain my low FPS in games and low score in Firestrike.

[BiG StroOnZ]

Looks Fine but it doesn't explain my low FPS in games and low score in Firestrike.

 

 

Try reverting your CPU overclock back to stock. See what that does.

[Aughrox]

Try reverting your CPU overclock back to stock. See what that does.

 

 

Have reverted everything back to stock. Got 9800 FS Score and same results in heaven so stats is still unchanged 

[BiG StroOnZ]

Have reverted everything back to stock. Got 9800 FS Score and same results in heaven so stats is still unchanged 

 

What version drivers are you using? 

[clementk]

Do you maybe have a other PSU you can test ? is it maybe not that 2x 980's( overclocked ) + the  5930k @ 4.5Ghz might be to much for a 850w ? so they cards are being throttled because not enough power ?

[Aughrox]

Do you maybe have a other PSU you can test ? is it maybe not that 2x 980's( overclocked ) + the  5930k @ 4.5Ghz might be to much for a 850w ? so they cards are being throttled because not enough power ?

 

 

I have another psu but it's also 850w.

I don't think that's the problem. Everything overclocked my system is drawing 500-600watt att most.

[Aughrox]

Try Heaven Benchmark 4.0 or Valley 1.0. That would give you a good indication of scaling. 

 

Also just realized you are on X99, @JayzTwoCents had an issue with his X99 board not giving him proper scaling but he didn't dive into the details about it in the video. All he said is something to the extent that it had to do with the Overclock on his CPU and memory, and the order in which he did it that caused awful scaling. Might be worth a shot looking into.

 

I downloaded valley 1.0.

 

Preset:

DX11

1080p

Ultra

AAx8

Full screen 

 

Score normal, Everything base clocked:  4634

 

Processor and graphic overclocked: 5636.

[BiG StroOnZ]

I downloaded valley 1.0.

 

Preset:

DX11

1080p

Ultra

AAx8

Full screen 

 

Score normal, Everything base clocked:  4634

 

Processor and graphic overclocked: 5636.

 

Pretty sure those scores are normal for both stock and overclocked. What driver version are you using?

[Aughrox]

Pretty sure those scores are normal for both stock and overclocked. What driver version are you using?

 

 

Looks like it's something wrong with 3DMark.

 

Nvidia Driver 344.16

[BiG StroOnZ]

Looks like it's something wrong with 3DMark.

 

Nvidia Driver 344.16

 

Try 3DMark11 instead of Firestrike, see if you have issues with scaling there too. 

[Aughrox]

I have finally fixed the problem and resolved the reason for it!

I have spent countless days with my new computer without figuring this out because of misleading.

 

So the actual fix:

 

Start-Control Panel -Energy Setting- Change "Balanced" to high performance!

 

I have Asus Suit 3 that should have taken care of that but apparently it didn't (Changing in Asus Suit 3 aren't sufficient you have to change the settings in Windows) 

 

I get my full results in my benchmarks now.

 

Hope this helps all with familiar problems.

 

 

Good Luck.

 

Special thanks to:

 

BiG StroOnZ

[Samfisher]

Yeah I was just gonna suggest turning it into Performance mode cos somehow SLI goes nuts with Balanced.

[clementk]

try to go to your bios and setting the PCI-e lanes to Gen 3. maybe just heard it on a Livestream where he was using 3x 980's