It's not thermal throttling, according to Afterburner it's never even hit 80C, I have it set to max out at 85 C.
I'm personally thinking power issue, iirc I had to use an adapter of some sort to hook it up. I only have an hx650w.
I don't care about staying on the bleeding edge personally. I just want something to run what I want to play decently on the res I am using. Last time I upgraded was buying a lightly used 980ti (the one I have now) when Titanfall 2 came out to replace my 780.
"only 700 USD"
I cry
I just did that actually, hol up.
I've tried turning settings down already, I run GTA V on a mix of medium and high settings to get close as I can to a constant 60 with dips here and there (mainly in dense areas like the city etc).
Posted above.
1. don't worry I'm not using early access games as a benchmark for my performance :^)
2. I'm running old drivers because for whatever reason (even to this day) Nvidia's newer drivers continue to decrease my performance. Right now I'm running the Titanfall 2 release drivers because that was the last big game I cared about and I don't really play anything newer then that.
3. Check above.
4. I always do, only thing I ever leave open is discord/steam/foobar 2k
Interesting, yeah don't worry I'll definitely be testing it on my new monitor before buying a new gpu.
Thanks for the tip about the clean driver install though, I'll defo try that.
Check above for info about the thermals.
Alright, mega reply done.
Also it might be worth mentioning I'm running a 1280*1024 monitor on my igpu.
Edit: CPU is a 4770k running at 4 GHz.