computer problems Computer under performing at 1440p

[giraffeman372]

Hello! I'm currently experiencing issues within any game of very bad frame drops, I usually play 1440p 144hz however recently, I've noticed that my frames have been very unstable when it used to not be. Even turning down the graphics doesn't seem to help. My specs are: 

CPU: ryzen 7 3800x

CPU cooler: Noctua nh-d15

GPU : RTX 3060

RAM: 32gb ddr4 3200mhz

MOTHERBOARD: ASRock B550 extreme 4

PSU : 1000w Corsair SF1000L

Case: Li-lian o11 mini

Case fans: Uphere 6 pack 120mm

 

any advice on what to do? Thanks!

[Eigenvektor]

16 minutes ago, giraffeman372 said:

any advice on what to do?

Provide more details.

 

What game(s), what's the performance you see? What does GPU and CPU usage look like? How are temps?

[giraffeman372]

5 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Provide more details.

 

What game(s), what's the performance you see? What does GPU and CPU usage look like? How are temps?

This is the temps on Idle, The games im experiencing lag in are Valorant and Paladins. It just weird frame drops that are causing me to question if its a thermal throttle or bottleneck. I also see that it is showing my ram is running in 1600mhz however on Task manager it is running on  3200 xmp profile

 

The second Image is temps while gaming

 

 

[Blue4130]

2 hours ago, giraffeman372 said:

This is the temps on Idle, The games im experiencing lag in are Valorant and Paladins. It just weird frame drops that are causing me to question if its a thermal throttle or bottleneck. I also see that it is showing my ram is running in 1600mhz however on Task manager it is running on  3200 xmp profile

 

The second Image is temps while gaming

 

 

What specific gpu is it? Why does a 3060 only show 4gb of vram?

[Eigenvektor]

4 hours ago, giraffeman372 said:

I also see that it is showing my ram is running in 1600mhz however on Task manager it is running on  3200 xmp profile

That is fine. The RAM is physically running at 1600 MHz. It is DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM, so it can do two Transactions per clock cycle, so it runs at 3200 MT/s. At some point marketing decided to straight up market that as 3200 MHz (in the past they at least added to word "effective" to the clock speed).

 

In any case, as @Blue4130 said, the GPU only showing 4 GB seems odd. Can you double check with GPU-Z? Looks like part of its VRAM might be defective. Also 58°C while gaming seems a tad low for full use.

 

You could install MSI Afterburner + Rivatuner Statistics Server. This way you can get a performance overlay while in game and have a look at GPU and CPU usage while in game.

[Blue4130]

8 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

That is fine. The RAM is physically running at 1600 MHz. It is DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM, so it can do two Transactions per clock cycle, so it runs at 3200 MT/s. At some point marketing decided to straight up market that as 3200 MHz (in the past they at least added to word "effective" to the clock speed).

 

In any case, as @Blue4130 said, the GPU only showing 4 GB seems odd. Can you double check with GPU-Z? Looks like part of its VRAM might be defective. Also 58°C while gaming seems a tad low for full use.

 

You could install MSI Afterburner + Rivatuner Statistics Server. This way you can get a performance overlay while in game and have a look at GPU and CPU usage while in game.

I was thinking more along the lines of a fake card.

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

I was thinking more along the lines of a fake card.

Yes, I agree could also be that. Afaik GPU-Z can be used to detect fakes. Just saying it might also be a simple defect.

[giraffeman372]

20 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Yes, I agree could also be that. Afaik GPU-Z can be used to detect fakes. Just saying it might also be a simple defect.

 

[giraffeman372]

So it actually shows that on my Task manager my VRAM is 12GB

 

My actual card is this 

[problemsolver]

@Blue4130 @Eigenvektor The incorrectly reported 4GB VRAM discrepancy is due to the Win32_VideoController class property AdapterRAM utilizing a 32-bit uint (which obviously can't store anything higher than 4GB) and whatever program that screenshot is from is using the AdapterRAM property to get the video card size. This is also why other programs report it correctly. (They aren't using the Win32_VideoController class.)

Spoiler

 

You can test this yourself by running the following in PowerShell... and you will discover you too can shrink your GPU to 4GB of VRAM (or 4293918720 bytes to be exact) 

Get-CimInstance Win32_VideoController | Format-Table -Property AdapterRAM

@giraffeman372 Try the things I've listed in this post:

And see how that goes. (Obviously don't make a new topic, but you can edit your OP and attach the data that post outlines. Include the PowerShell script output also, as it has more than just computer specs.)