gpu problem with the gpu volt limit

[george.babi123]

Hello everyone ! 

So, i'v got GTX 960 and a 500w PSU, when i bought the card about a year ago, it was working fine, i was playng games with fairly good perfomance but one day i decided to overcklock it, and hit the ceiling and perfomance declined, i reseted everything but never regained the perfomance i was getting at one point. it has been like that ever since but after long time, i decided to fix the problem, i've deleted the MSI afterboorner, cleaned the card, installed the new windows but the problem remains. i've checked it with, once again, MSI AB and it says that there's a voltage limit, and the card stays very cool even when it's 100% underloa.

i've set my windows to perfomance mode, in NVIDEA cp on power managment mode it's set to maxumum perfomance as well. with MSI afterboorner i've clocked core voltage with 100+ and power limit is set to 110, but nothing has changed. So can any one of you help me with the problem, or has any of you ever've been in the same situation ??

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, george.babi123 said:

has any of you ever've been in the same situation ??

No. My cards always got better from overclocking not worse... 

 

Maybe it's just old. 

 

But you could try DDU then reinstall drivers if you haven't yet? 

[Mick Naughty]

What’s wrong with the voltage limit? It should always have one. The more you ask from it, the more likely you are to hit it. 
 

What exactly is the performance loss? And benchmark numbers to compare?

[Kilrah]

Have the feeling that everything's working correctly and you're either misremembering the higher performance or it was a fluke.

[george.babi123]

On 11/7/2020 at 7:40 AM, Mark Kaine said:

No. My cards always got better from overclocking not worse... 

 

Maybe it's just old. 

 

But you could try DDU then reinstall drivers if you haven't yet? 

no, i tried that yesterday, it doesn't help

[george.babi123]

On 11/7/2020 at 10:18 AM, Mick Naughty said:

What’s wrong with the voltage limit? It should always have one. The more you ask from it, the more likely you are to hit it. 
 

What exactly is the performance loss? And benchmark numbers to compare?

i don't exactly know what're the benchmark numbers, but let's say i was getting 40+fps with ultra (768p) setting in ac unity or origins and now it doesn't even hit 30 on the lowest, and stutters a lot.


it just says that limit is the voltage.

[george.babi123]

On 11/7/2020 at 11:01 AM, Kilrah said:

Have the feeling that everything's working correctly and you're either misremembering the higher performance or it was a fluke.

no, believe me i'm not remembering anything wrong, i just know that my card isn't performing as well as it should, plus if i look at any of the other 960s they outperform my card by a long shot, and neither cpu or any other component in my build is the problem. 

[george.babi123]

If anyone want's to help me out and needs more info of my build:

CPU - i3 4130 3.40 ghz

GPU - GTX 960 2gb gddr5 

RAM - 2x4 8gb 1600mhz

PSU - 500w EVGA

P.s my monitor is 768p

[Mick Naughty]

9 hours ago, george.babi123 said:

i don't exactly know what're the benchmark numbers, but let's say i was getting 40+fps with ultra (768p) setting in ac unity or origins and now it doesn't even hit 30 on the lowest, and stutters a lot.


it just says that limit is the voltage.

Well Im not sure whats wrong if theres nothing to show that. If you used something consistent like a benchmark then that would help. But if using ddu and installing the drivers doesn't fix it and setting the gpu setting to default then idk.

Nothing wrong with a voltage limit. All cards hit that by default pretty much with anything modern. And they will even hit it with the voltage slider maxed out. Unless something physically went bad on the board, there isnt much else to do on.

 

[george.babi123]

hey, so thank you for commenting once again, so her's the thing.. i think my gpu setting are on default but not sure because, it says that it's set to default clock speed but when i start playng a game it's much more that it's stock speed


playing on the lowest settings 768p by the way

[Kilrah]

Your CPU can't keep up, nothing to do with the GPU.