Low MSI GTX 780 Performance

[Slevin7792]

So, a few days ago I ordered the MSI GTX 780 OC 3GB Gaming card, this one, and it arrived today. I installed it and updated the drivers, the usual stuff, and then I loaded up some games to test it out.

 

The problem that I am having is that I'm really not getting the performance out of the card that I was expecting. I went from a 1GB Gigabyte GTX 460 to this card, but the FPS in most games isn't really significantly higher. I have turned the graphics up in some of these games, but for example, in GTA IV, not even completely maxed out, its going as low as 30fps. There were a few other games that I tested. In DayZ standalone, I get between 25-40 in a small town, not even the city, and the FPS is less than 30 looking up to the hills from the coast. Another I tested out was SAMP, and in areas that I usually get 30-40 FPS with the GTX460, I was only getting 50 FPS with the GTX780.

 

I'm not entirely sure what is causing this problem, I think it may be the motherboard, it's not a great one, more of the budgeted kind that I put into my computer initially, but other topics are suggesting it may be my CPU.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

Also, I ran the Unigine Valley Benchmark, and these are the results, and from looking at some scores here, I should be getting somewhere between 65-90FPS. Instead, Im getting the speeds of a GTX670 or HD 7970 from my GTX780.

The test was run on the Extreme HD setting.

 

Here is a screenshot of GPU-Z.

 

My PC Specs

AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition @ 3.0GHz

MSI GTX 780 Gaming 3GB OC

ASUS M5A78L-M LX

4 GB Corsair Vengence RAM @1600MHz

Corsair 700GS PSU

[DarrenP]

So, a few days ago I ordered the MSI GTX 780 OC 3GB Gaming card, this one, and it arrived today. I installed it and updated the drivers, the usual stuff, and then I loaded up some games to test it out.

 

The problem that I am having is that I'm really not getting the performance out of the card that I was expecting. I went from a 1GB Gigabyte GTX 460 to this card, but the FPS in most games isn't really significantly higher. I have turned the graphics up in some of these games, but for example, in GTA IV, not even completely maxed out, its going as low as 30fps. There were a few other games that I tested. In DayZ standalone, I get between 25-40 in a small town, not even the city, and the FPS is less than 30 looking up to the hills from the coast. Another I tested out was SAMP, and in areas that I usually get 30-40 FPS with the GTX460, I was only getting 50 FPS with the GTX780.

 

I'm not entirely sure what is causing this problem, I think it may be the motherboard, it's not a great one, more of the budgeted kind that I put into my computer initially, but other topics are suggesting it may be my CPU.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

Also, I ran the Unigine Valley Benchmark, and these are the results, and from looking at some scores here, I should be getting somewhere between 65-90FPS. Instead, Im getting the speeds of a GTX670 or HD 7970 from my GTX780.

The test was run on the Extreme HD setting.

 

My PC Specs

AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition @ 3.0GHz

MSI GTX 780 Gaming 3GB OC

ASUS M5A78L-M LX

4 GB Corsair Vengence RAM @1600MHz

Corsair 700GS PSU

Your RAM and CPU are quite a bottleneck there...

[exotioner]

I had this problem with my Asus Direct CU II 780.
Did you turn on shadowplay by any chance, and if you did, do you have it connected to a(n) old/slow harddrive ? That seems to be why my 780 goes completely ape shet

[exotioner]

Your RAM and CPU are quite a bottleneck there...

Derp I forgot to check his specs x.x

Well, 

^^^^^^^^^^ This guy seems to have checked your stoof out a little more than I did, but I agree with him. there's a bottleneck.

[Slevin7792]

Your RAM and CPU are quite a bottleneck there...

 

That sucks, I just spent 450 quid on the card, and now I'll have to fork out whatever else for a new CPU, RAM and most likely a new Mobo too. Ahh well.

 

I had this problem with my Asus Direct CU II 780.

Did you turn on shadowplay by any chance, and if you did, do you have it connected to a(n) old/slow harddrive ? That seems to be why my 780 goes completely ape shet

 

No, shadowplay was definitely not on, and my HDD isn't that slow.

[exotioner]

That sucks, I just spent 450 quid on the card, and now I'll have to fork out whatever else for a new CPU, RAM and most likely a new Mobo too. Ahh well.

 

 

No, shadowplay was definitely not on, and my HDD isn't that slow.

To be honest, at this point, you might as well settle for a whole new system

Sorry to tell ya, if you had told us this before you ordered, maybe we could've helped out

[MegaDave91]

That sucks, I just spent 450 quid on the card, and now I'll have to fork out whatever else for a new CPU, RAM and most likely a new Mobo too. Ahh well.

 

 

 

Welcome to PC gaming

[Slevin7792]

To be honest, at this point, you might as well settle for a whole new system

Sorry to tell ya, if you had told us this before you ordered, maybe we could've helped out

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to stick it out until I get some more money together.

Welcome to PC gaming

Yea, but, it's worth the cost.

[exotioner]

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to stick it out until I get some more money together.

Yea, but, it's worth the cost.

It is worth it.

When I switched from my old GTX 560 non-ti and an i5 2320 to my 4670k (4.5Ghz) and my Asus 780..

Basically ALL games became new to me. Everything is so smooth, so colourful, AND EVERYTHING GOT EFFECTS TOO

Either way, good luck with your money saving / building !