GTX 760 Problemes

[Hecta]

To start off, two months ago I did a 3DMark  my Geforce GTX 760 MSI has been losing performance : My first 3DMark Firestrike Score was at 5400 (which for itself is already low, compared to other 3DMark benchmarks of my setup), I did that benchmark two months ago. I have retried the test and my score has lowered down to 5100. (Also want to point out that in all four tests I have lowered.

 

Second of all, I play a lot of GTA V and suddenly after a few days I've have a lot of stuttering/freezes. I used GPU-Z to monitor what my gpu is doing, and when I get a freeze, the GPU load suddenly drop to 6-10%. This only happens on GTA V. It has nothing to do with VRAM used because in game I get max 2000MB of usage.

 

Some possibly helpful things that could solve my problem : 

-90%-98% GPU load

-Bad cooling/Case ventilation is terrible (60°C-66°C).

-Dual Monitors (1600x900 and 1366x768).

-Windows 8.1 64Bits.

-Possibly a lower quality PSU (Akasa 80+Gold 850W Modular).

-Ultra settings apart from shadows (High), MSAA (Off) and Grass (Very High).

-Default Intel Heat-sink.

 

Setup :

CPU : Intel core i5 4570.

Mobo : MSI Z87-G45 Gaming.

RAM : 2x4GB G.Skill 2133MHz.

GPU : NVIDIA Geforce GTX 760 MSI (Twin Frozr 4) Non OC (Never OCed).

 

 

So my probleme is that my GPU is having a bad time and doesn't want to work as it should. If you can find a way to solve this problem, please let me know, I have only tried to set task priority to High in Task Manager for GTA V, at first it works, but not anymore.

In any case, I plan on buying a GTX 970 for Christmas (Not a 390 because ShadowPlay, and game).

 

Thanks for any help possible.

 

P.S. If you need ANY extra information that could help solve the problem, please ask me.

[Patrick Bateman]

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66c aint going to cause throttling. the fact that gpu usage fluctuates rather than stays at 98/99% the whole time. does this happen with firestrike? 

[Hecta]

66c aint going to cause throttling. the fact that gpu usage fluctuates rather than stays at 98/99% the whole time. does this happen with firestrike? 

Firestrike worked fine, at Maximum GPU load.

[alphaproject]

Just get a 970 on black Friday or cyber Monday and be done with that 760, you'll be glad to put that thing to rest.