System Underperforming Majorly

[IbraTech04]

Hello all,

 

I built my PC in August of last year. My specs are as follows:

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 w/ Stock Cooler

Motherboard: AORUS B550M Pro

RAM: 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX @ 3200Mhz

GPU: GTX 1660 SUPER, Zotac Twin Fan model

PSU: Thermaltake SMART 500W

 

Last year in around November, I installed the NVIDIA Studio Driver, to get better performance in Premiere. That's when my issues began. I began to experience major stuttering in all my games, and my FPS was at an all-time low. I went from a stable 144FPS in Fortnite to barely 120FPS stable, 80FPS to 60FPS in GTA, and barely 120FPS stable in Rocket League.

 

When I realized this, I tried to roll back my driver to the Game Ready one using DDU. I DDUed my Studio Driver, and reinstalled the Game Ready one. Unfortunately that did not fix my issues. I did some digging and read that reverting to an older driver might help. So I DDUed again, and installed an older driver. That didn't help either. I tried a clean install of Windows and each game, leading to no avail.

 

I ran a Userbenchmark benchmark on my PC (Thats the only benchmark I know of, sorry if it's not a good indicator) and I got these results: Gigabyte GA-B550M AORUS PRO Performance Results - UserBenchmark

 

Almost all my components are underperforming, which is very concerning to me. I have no idea how a Studio Driver may have caused all these issues, nor do I know where to begin in troubleshooting. I suspect my PSU may be a culprit, but I'm not sure. I've enabled experimental features in GeForce Experience and enabled the performance overlay. I noticed my GPU barely uses more than 1 volt, and is often under 1 volt. I'm not sure if this information is useful, but I figured I'd add it just in case.

 

Any help in getting closer to the culprit of this issue would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more information from me, feel free to ask I'd be more than happy to provide

 

Thanks in Advance,

[svmlegacy]

What's likely causing the underperformance is the memory running at JEDEC speeds.

 

You'll see a decent uplift by enabling the XMP profile for 3200 MHz.

 

Will it solve the stuttering? Probably not. Look into what background tasks are running. 7 GB of idle usage is a lot.

[Damascus]

Do a firestrike run to get another data point

[IbraTech04]

41 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

You'll see a decent uplift by enabling the XMP profile for 3200 MHz.

 

Just enabled the XMP Profile. Feels almost the same. Took a look at my background processes. Looks like it's mostly Adobe processes and gaming-related processes (Xbox Gamebar, NVIDIA, stuff like that). Although I do agree 7Gb of idle RAM usage is quite high

[IbraTech04]

15 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Do a firestrike run to get another data point

I'm downloading 3DMark to run FireStrike as we speak. I'll update this thread once it's done downloading and it's run

[Cheburek]

5 minutes ago, IbraTech04 said:

Just enabled the XMP Profile. Feels almost the same. Took a look at my background processes. Looks like it's mostly Adobe processes and gaming-related processes (Xbox Gamebar, NVIDIA, stuff like that). Although I do agree 7Gb of idle RAM usage is quite high

Well then disable some of those processes!

There are some apps that can help you detect what should be disabled and what should be kept.

Iobit system care is one I've had before and was quite helpful in helping me update drivers,reduce boot times and lower my idle ram usage BUT it gets everywhere in your  computer and is irritating to have their pop-ups sometimes but ,you can always remove it once your done.

[IbraTech04]

1 hour ago, Damascus said:

Do a firestrike run to get another data point

Just got done with that. Here are the results: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M AORUS PRO (3dmark.com)

[IbraTech04]

4 hours ago, Cheburek said:

Well then disable some of those processes!

There are some apps that can help you detect what should be disabled and what should be kept.

Iobit system care is one I've had before and was quite helpful in helping me update drivers,reduce boot times and lower my idle ram usage BUT it gets everywhere in your  computer and is irritating to have their pop-ups sometimes but ,you can always remove it once your done.

Just finished running IOBit Systemcare. Nothing seems to have changed