New build. Mediocre Performance

SHINEYMAN22 · January 31, 2019

Hello friends!

A few weeks ago I upgraded my mobo, ram, and CPU. Everything was working fine with my old GTX 980. The other day I installed an RTX 2080ti. I noticed today that my performance wasn't in line with my expectation or with benchmarks I looked at. After noticing this I realized my GPU usage was only ever hovering between 5% to 15% usage and most of that usage was coming from the few things I was running on my second monitor rather than the games I was playing. I'd appreciate any help I can get with this. Thanks!

Here are my specs:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/SHINEYMAN22/saved/88vyXL

AlfaProto · January 31, 2019

1. Check if integrated graphics is enabled by default via your UEFI.

2. Uninstall the previous chipset drivers used by your previous motherboard *1

3. Use DDU to uninstall your previous graphics drivers. *2

*1 - I was upgrading from an old Z68/77 to Z270, it was causing some performance issues, and BSOD when underload. After removing the old chipset drivers, everything worked fine.

*2 - Upgraded a 900 series to the 10 series without any driver installation, but it was recognised by the Nvidia Control Panel, and Device Manager. Thought, there was some performance issue on certain games (some high FPS games, the perf. loss wasn't that noticeable.