Kevin11

new since i switched to a new cpu and mobo, a better cpu and mobo

So I'm using a GTX 660 with an i7 6700k, I don't do a lot of gaming and I'm poor right now so it works for the time being, might grab a gpu on black video if there are any good deals on 960/970/1060/1070's but anyways I start dropping FPS at around 65% GPU load with 50fps and the sound quality starts to get worse when the FPS starts to drop, getting worse as the FPS gets lower. By 75% gpu load the sound quality is pretty bad and inaudible and the fps drops to 30. The GPU temperature never passes 64c and the gpu fan holds at about 34c even when the gpu load is at 80%. Any idea what's going on here? I could really use some help, mainly fixing the audio distortion. I am using an hdmi plugged into the GTX 660, I know for a fact it's not the display or the cord that's the problem because I've already done extensive troubleshooting, many hours of it at this point.

If you scroll down to the end of this post he seemed to fix his problem by switching to fast boot. But when I try to use fast boot my keyboard and mouse do not register so idk if this is an option for me http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2564587/worse-performance-cpu-mobo-upgrade.html

I've tried this a few times, lol. I've even tried running my HDD as primary with new drivers installed and it's still the same problem, I've tried reinstalling OS already too as-well as using an OS on two different storage drives. The fact that the game that has never lagged on my before is lagging on me now is really suspicious, it's as if the GPU just isn't trying as hard as it used to

Yeah I realized I could do that if I had to, but I'd rather diagnose the actual problem so I don't upgrade my gpu later and have the same problem lol, if it's a cpu or motherboard problem I want to find out as fast as possible to make the return as easy as possible, reading through other forums of people with similar problems one thing that stood out to me is taking out a ram stick, then taking out the other ram stick, then swapping the ram sticks in their slots to try to determine if its a ram slot issue or a ram issue, so I may try that tomorrow or something. someone else suggested cleaning the gpu where it connects into the mobo as small amounts of dust can have a dramatic effect on performance, so I'll probably try that tomorrow, too. Thank you for all your time in trying to help me it is highly appreciated

but the performance I'm getting back is waaaaaaaaaaaaay lower? For example, starting a new game with relatively few units on sc2 in ultra would start at around 60-120 fps before and fluctuate in-between those numbers, now it starts at 15-60 and quickly drops as more units are loaded into the game, the CPU temp is running a lot lower but only because the performance is way lower, in my opinion

lol oops no I mean the gpu, both monitors plugged into the GTX 660 same as before, and I had been using the 2 monitor set up for some time before upgrading with absolutely no issues, so I doubt the dual monitor display has any relevance to the problem

well when playing sc2 in ultra on the old cpu and mobo my GPU temp would climb to about 80c at some points, now it never even gets close to 70c even though it shows that the gpu loads are hitting 90% so I'm wondering if somehow having the fan speed permanently set lower somehow limits the actual gpu load that the gpu will do? what else could be causing the problem?

both monitors are plugged into mobo as they were with my old setup, running at the same settings and everything. I set my bios profile to optimized yesterday and it then overclocked my cpu to 7% in response which I'm hoping won't void the warranty lol, it may have slightly helped but any increase in performance from the switch was very negligible

Alright so I upgraded my cpu and motherboard from amd fx 6350 and cheap $50 motherboard but I am still using the same GTX 660 and the same monitor setup I used to play sc2 is ultra settings just fine, and I wouldn't drop below 30fps until there were some big armies which was fine. My other game, Osu! would never, ever lag. Since switching to the new cpu and mobo, an i7 6700k and asus sabertooth z170 s, I am getting ridiculous fps lag and whenever the fps drops below 60, the sound becomes distorted, getting worse as the fps drops, which never used to happen. I have troubleshooted from approximately 10 hours total now on this single problem, I've definitely isolated it to two things, the GPU or the mobo, I'll explain why. The distorted sound goes away if the sound is coming out of the motherboard, and is only distorted when coming out of my monitor through the hdmi cord plugged into the GPU. I have already tried other cords and my other monitor with built in speakers, no difference anywhere. So to try and summarize, my GPU is distorting my sound in video games ONLY when the fps drops but my FPS is about 50% lower than it used to be. I've noticed that even when GPU loads hit 90% the fan speed will never pass 44%, could this somehow be the issue? What else could it be? I really need some help here I have no idea what to try at this point.

idk how to check that lol, something I've noticed is my gpu fan speed doesn't go above 50% even if the load hits 90%, could this be the cause?

GPU-Z tells me it is using bus interface PCI-E 3.0x16 @ x16 1.1 so this is good right? shouldn't be causing an issue?

idk how to check this, but yes it is in the top pcie slot an a sabertooth z170 mobo which is a high quality $200 motherboard after doing some more testing, I deleted the nvidia sound drivers, lost sound from my monitor so I plugged in headphones into the motherboard in the back, and this fixed the sound problem but not the gpu problem. So what I've learned is that the garbled sound is coming from the GPU when frame rates start to drop, but the thing is this never used to happen with the old motherboard and I am getting way less FPS than I used to, how do I check if it's the pcie speeds?

so after some more observation, it's only fps dependent when I'm playing SC2 but if I'm playing osu the sound distortions seem to happen randomly, even when I'm just sitting in a lobby doing nothing the sound distortions will manifest, all my loads are low and temps are low so it's due to the cpu or gpu being overworked

just watched my loads and temps while it just happened on osu, and nothing is close to maxed, makes no sense

yeah i upgraded to a supernova 750w psu, all of the cables are very nicely sleeved. I have a dual monitor setup (had the exact same setup before upgrading) and the sound effects appear on both monitors so it's definitely not the HDMI cord. On a smaller note, with osu! which is a game based on music and clicking circles to the beat, I would never, ever experience fps drops enough to be noticeable. But when I play now, whenever the sound garbles, which is rare because it's not an intensive game, the fps seems to drop with the drop in sound quality, but this might just be because the game relies on the music and responds when the music is distorted, as I don't notice this effect with sc2

i have no friends and no other gpus

yeah reducing helps only because my fps is higher, but even in lower settings if i manage to drop the fps even to 50 instead of 60 the sound instantly starts to distort. the thing is that with an amd fx 6350 and $50 mobo with the same gpu and monitor setup, I could get equal if not higher fps on sc2 with no sound garble. it really makes no sense to me, it just seems like the gpu is only running at like 70% strength and idk what would cause the sound distortion

So I have a unique problem here. My sound is coming out of my GTX 660 (shut up) through a hdmi cord and coming through my monitor's speakers. I just upgraded my mobo and cpu, same gpu and same monitor set up. Everything used to work perfectly with the GTX 660, I could game in low FPS and the sound would be unaffected. Since upgrading to an i7 6700k and sabertooth z170 s, whenever I game and the FPS drops the sounds become garbled, and the lower the FPS gets the lower the sound quality gets. In 60 fps the sound is perfect, completely perfect. Once I drop to 50 fps the sound starts to garble, once I hit 30fps it just sounds like random noise. I play games that can drop fps to 30 or lower for short periods of time pretty frequently so this is a real problem. Is there any way to fix this?

yup a few times actually as i had to deal with secureboot and was troubleshooting didn't work I seem to be making progress, switched my profile from normal to optimal in bios and now it's ocing at 7% and I lowered the settings down to medium, seems to have almost entirely taken away the garbled sound and it's given me more fps. It seems like the gpu is only at half strength or something? but idk why that would cause the garbled noise other people seem to have been having the same problem since 2008 http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/249604-28-strange-problem-distorted-sound-playing-games So after doing some research it appears to be a somewhat common problem with no real solution that I could find. The sound distortion seems to be related to the fps I am getting, if I drop setting to medium and have full 60 fps then the garbled sound almost completely goes away, but it seems to lower my fps just by happening which makes higher settings completely impossible to play, any way around this? confirmed. even in medium settings, i played a very long game and as the armies started to get very large and the fps started to drop, instantly the sound started getting garbled, and got worse as the fps dropped lower

you may yet be my savior, didn't have xperience installing now, we'll see. oh and it's two fresh hard drives, ssd boot and hdd back, both fresh windows and everything

It comes from my monitor through an HDMI cord plugged into the gtx 660 my monitor and hdmi set up is the same from before, as-well so nothing has changed there, the gtx 660 has no problem with 2 monitors and sc2 in max settings

it happens for the other much less intensive game too, but it happens rarely so it's definitely not just sc2, the temps never get hot whereas with high fps sc2 the gpu would get pretty hot, now it's not even trying

oh yeah, the newest patch fucked me on last mobo so I already knew to try that as I was still using the old drivers, maybe I should try going back 2

Specs: i7 6700k, 16gb 2400 ddr4 ram, sabertooth z170 S, GTX 660, SSD boot and HDD backup so i was using an amd fx 6350 and cheap mobo with the same gtx 660 and I could play SC2 in max settings just fine, FPS would drop but everything performed properly. now I can't even play SC2, I upgraded my psu cpu mobo and ram but kept gtx 660 and case. i have installed chipset drivers, chipset manager, audio drivers, gpu drivers, motherboard drivers and rapid storage drivers. none of them helped the gameplay. what do i try now? how to fix?? edt: sc2 loads, but the sound is garbled and the fps stays between 15 and 45 regardless of how many units are out or anything, whereas before i would have 60fps at the start of games with my old cpu and mobo