Computer under performing after some upgrades.

[kw0n]

I just recently just changed cases from the massive Mastercase Pro 5 (actually bought because of LTT's endorsement) to a Meshify C just to make it easier to take places. In doing so I decided to upgrade my SSD and to swap out an Asus Turbo 1080Ti to an Asus Strix OC 1080Ti. Everything seemed to have worked, the computer is fully functional, however the performance and benchmarks just seem to be way lower than what they were prior to me changing things up and I'm not sure why... 

 

My UserBenchmark shows there isn't anything wrong with the hardware: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14871777

3DMark timespy score seems kind of low (8200-8500 through multiple tests), here is the most recent one: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33787604?

 

I spoke to a few people on build a PC Discord and they agreed that my score for my system is quite low, and when I check similar systems on the 3DMark site, it definitely shows, as I see some people are getting 10,000-11,000 scores. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro, and the latest drivers on Nvidia's site, I updated the UEFI and made sure XMP profile was enabled for the RAM, I increased the power limit on MSI afterburner, and I also put the Windows power plan to high performance. Playing some games felt a little lacking, most recently Apex was rough, as sometimes I'd dip below 60 FPS, graned I was on the max settings, but even at the lowest settings it was having a hard time achieving 144 FPS, and seeing other's bench results of the same game and settings puts mine in the dirt. On another note, temps for my CPU seem to be a little higher than before, using a NH-D15S, but I would chalk poorer temps up to me only having 2 case fans at the moment, as I am waiting for more to come in the mail. 

 

It feels like I've done almost everything I can think of and have been suggested, but I can't seem to get things right, so thought I'd ask around here. 

 

 

[MojangYang]

Why would you swap that card in the Inst place? Sounds quite pointless to me when you get the same gpu over and over again.

[RobFRaschke]

When you swapped out the SSD, did you do a fresh install of windows? Or at least DDU the drivers?

[kw0n]

4 minutes ago, RobFRaschke said:

When you swapped out the SSD, did you do a fresh install of windows? Or at least DDU the drivers?

The SSD was completely wiped, so I did have to fresh install of Windows, and as a result of that there were no previous GPU drivers, so I installed the latest version of that as well. I did DDU the drivers when I was on my other drive that had an existing copy of Windows and stuff, but that didn't help me either, so I decided to just start fresh.