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So I have an EVGA 960 at standard clock speed. Had it like this for about half a year or so now. I have the FPS capped at 63 (to give a drop buffer for recording) and haven't had any issues until today.

As I was playing CS:GO, my GPU got to 40C (nothing unusual) and suddenly the games FPS dropped to about 10 for a few moments then back up. It has done this almost every game today.

Any ideas? To my knowledge, the driver is up to date.

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Just restart the PC then see if it still happens :-)

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So I have an EVGA 960 at standard clock speed. Had it like this for about half a year or so now. I have the FPS capped at 63 (to give a drop buffer for recording) and haven't had any issues until today.

As I was playing CS:GO, my GPU got to 40C (nothing unusual) and suddenly the games FPS dropped to about 10 for a few moments then back up. It has done this almost every game today.

Any ideas? To my knowledge, the driver is up to date.

you sure its the gpu causing the problem?

 

 

 

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So I have an EVGA 960 at standard clock speed. Had it like this for about half a year or so now. I have the FPS capped at 63 (to give a drop buffer for recording) and haven't had any issues until today.

As I was playing CS:GO, my GPU got to 40C (nothing unusual) and suddenly the games FPS dropped to about 10 for a few moments then back up. It has done this almost every game today.

Any ideas? To my knowledge, the driver is up to date.

Woah, we have super similar builds, except I have more RAM and two 960's.

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Just restart the PC then see if it still happens :-)

Done that many times; I usually shut my PC down if I'm not going to be next to it within 30 mins.

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you sure its the gpu causing the problem?

It's the only thing I could viably guess at. CPU usage goes no higher than 50%, ram no more than 25% on most days.

Only other thing it could be is the HDD, but I hightly doubt that sense it hasn't gained anything space wise on there.

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It's the only thing I could viably guess at. CPU usage goes no higher than 50%, ram no more than 25% on most days.

Only other thing it could be is the HDD, but I hightly doubt that sense it hasn't gained anything space wise on there.

Are you recording to the same drive you're playing from?

 

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Are you recording to the same drive you're playing from?

No; not recording during these drops. And I don't record to the same HDD. I record to my SSHD.

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does the temp cap out at 40? Do you have a profile running that stops the temp from going higher and thus throttles the card at that point?

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does the temp cap out at 40? Do you have a profile running that stops the temp from going higher and thus throttles the card at that point?

No. I have it set that the fans grow in speed as it heats up.

CPU maxed at 35% while doing this last game.

GPU maxed at 47% usage, temp of 43C.

CPU temp capped at 34C

Ram capped at 4.5gb/12gb

Disk speed capped at 79%

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likely ram out of VRAM.

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likely ram out of VRAM.

 

But why would it be happening now when I had no issues with it before? I've been playing the same games

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But why would it be happening now when I had no issues with it before? I've been playing the same games

Background tasks? Running windowed mode? Higher settings? CS:GO uses about 1.3-1.4GB of VRAM for me.

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jesus christ, how

a single 1080p frame is 8mb - 300 fps is 300x8 = 1.2GB just the frames - I have high settings and AA so 1.3-1.4GB

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a single 1080p frame is 8mb - 300 fps is 300x8 = 1.2GB just the frames - I have high settings and AA so 1.3-1.4GB

lol

meanwhile, grid 2 doesn't even hit 512mb of vram usage at max settings (with cmaa, i'll have to try with some absurdly high anti aliasing setting)

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lol

meanwhile, grid 2 doesn't even hit 512mb of vram usage at max settings (with cmaa, i'll have to try with some absurdly high anti aliasing setting)

Source engine is old :P

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Background tasks? Running windowed mode? Higher settings? CS:GO uses about 1.3-1.4GB of VRAM for me.

No background tasks running. Running full screened, could try windowed but I've always been in full screen. Video settings haven't been changed. CSGO uses 1.5gb of regular ram when I pay attention to it.

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Going to try putting it to my SSD, maybe that will help.

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Cinebench R15: 636(all cores), 127FPS

 

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Starting to notice it happening in youtube videos now... Is there a chance that my GPU is dying?

EDIT: Nope. it was the video I was watching. 

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