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GPU underperformance after "dusting" PC

CrudBaby
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Hey guys, 

was just hoping I could get some advice on a problem that's come up the past day. I recently built a new PC about a month ago, with a Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3070, MSI B550 Tomahawk and 650W PSU. As expected, it ran great and I was easily getting over 200 fps in any game I played. My room gets a bit dusty so yesterday I decided to clean it out a bit, to prevent dust build up. I unplugged it from the wall, took it upstairs and sprayed it with compressed air to get rid of the dust. I made sure the canister was upright, and hardly even sprayed any of the components. Mostly just the insides of the case. No residue was sprayed from the can, and I made sure i was statically discharged. Did not unplug or un-assemble any part of my pc, just opened up the case and sprayed what I could see.

Last night I went and plugged it in to play some games, and I found I'm getting around a 25% decrease in performance. For example in Rainbow six siege after benchmark im getting roughly 80-100 fps lower than before. I did some benchmarks and it said my GPU was underperforming, as well as my CPU and GPU render time were almost double what they were before. 

Another thing that might mean something is that my temps for both CPU and GPU have been extremely low (high 50's to low 60's), when they would typically reach high 60's, low 70's under same load.

Not sure what's going on, and would love any advice you guys could offer...

Also, made sure all drivers were up to date, and checked all connections within my PC

 

Thanks for your help!

 

EDIT: tried unplugging and cleaning everything out again, and getting better performance, but still not where it was before. It now says my CPU render time is almost 80% higher than what it was from 1.6ms to 2.7ms, even though my frames are better. What determines cpu render time? Is it a big factor in performance?

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Is cool and quiet enabled in the bios?

 

Also, is the power settings set to high performance on both cpu and gpu?

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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Just now, MartinKweh said:

Is cool and quiet enabled in the bios?

 

Also, is the power settings set to high performance on both cpu and gpu?

Considering the symptoms and the situation - seems like you are miles away from finding the cause of the issue.

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6 minutes ago, MartinKweh said:

Is cool and quiet enabled in the bios?

 

Also, is the power settings set to high performance on both cpu and gpu?

Hey! Thanks for the quick reply! 

I'll take a quick look at the bios, and my gpu (through Nvidia Control Panel) is set to High Performance.

Is there any other way to change that setting/do it for the CPU?

 

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Are the fans spinning? Blowing air into fans and making them spin could damage them

Hold them down before blowing, for future reference

 

You could try DDU?

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Are the fans spinning? Blowing air into fans and making them spin could damage them

Hold them down before blowing, for future reference

 

You could try DDU?

So I made sure to hold the fans still as I blew air into them, and the fans are all working as expected right now, cpu and gpu temps are a lot lower than they were before

What drivers would you recommend reinstalling?

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Just now, CrudBaby said:

So I made sure to hold the fans still as I blew air into them, and the fans are all working as expected right now, cpu and gpu temps are a lot lower than they were before

What drivers would you recommend reinstalling?

The latest ones from your GPU manufacturer website, so Nvidia site

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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22 minutes ago, CrudBaby said:

Hey guys, 

was just hoping I could get some advice on a problem that's come up the past day. I recently built a new PC about a month ago, with a Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3070, MSI B550 Tomahawk and 650W PSU. As expected, it ran great and I was easily getting over 200 fps in any game I played. My room gets a bit dusty so yesterday I decided to clean it out a bit, to prevent dust build up. I unplugged it from the wall, took it upstairs and sprayed it with compressed air to get rid of the dust. I made sure the canister was upright, and hardly even sprayed any of the components. Mostly just the insides of the case. No residue was sprayed from the can, and I made sure i was statically discharged. Did not unplug or un-assemble any part of my pc, just opened up the case and sprayed what I could see.

Last night I went and plugged it in to play some games, and I found I'm getting around a 25% decrease in performance. For example in Rainbow six siege after benchmark im getting roughly 80-100 fps lower than before. I did some benchmarks and it said my GPU was underperforming, as well as my CPU and GPU render time were almost double what they were before. 

Another thing that might mean something is that my temps for both CPU and GPU have been extremely low (high 50's to low 60's), when they would typically reach high 60's, low 70's under same load.

Not sure what's going on, and would love any advice you guys could offer...

Also, made sure all drivers were up to date, and checked all connections within my PC

 

Thanks for your help!

i am sorry if this is off topic but i got a question... how is the b550 tomahawk working for you? planning on buying the x570 but i could save some money getting the b550

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8 minutes ago, wolfff said:

i am sorry if this is off topic but i got a question... how is the b550 tomahawk working for you? planning on buying the x570 but i could save some money getting the b550

No problem, Motherboard is great, was very easy to build on and worked well up until this point. 

Would recommend it for sure (unless this problem is related to it lol)

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3 minutes ago, CrudBaby said:

I'll give that a shot! 

Thank you! Let me know if you think of anything else that could help please!

Resetting CMOS, other than that, nothing tbh

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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If you don't pull components out of the case while using compressed air - the dust will go to a different place in the case.

since compressed air just blows dust away,and doesn't make it disappear it's most likely to get blowed to a different place/component in the machine.

Dust can short electrical components,and dust filters are the best way to deal with dust.

 

I think that if blowing compressed air caused it - it can also solve it.

Just this time take components out of the case and clean them one by one.

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X@4.65GHz | GIGABYTE RTX 3080 GAMING OC | 4x 8GB Micron Rev.E (D9VPP) 3800MHz 16-19-14-21-58
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8 minutes ago, wolfff said:

i am sorry if this is off topic but i got a question... how is the b550 tomahawk working for you? planning on buying the x570 but i could save some money getting the b550

That board is better than most X570 boards out there.

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8 minutes ago, Vishera said:

That board is better than most X570 boards out there.

Even if I had a tiny amount of dust? (like specks), it wasnt overflowing with dust by any means.

Ill give it a try for sure tho, thank you!

 

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