R9 390 FPS drops

[iM8Pizza]

Good day there

I've had my Sapphire Nitro R9 390 Tri-X since it's first launch and it has perform very well, going through everything that I need it to do. 
2 days ago however, I opened Saphire TRIXX (always do this when I first boot it) and noticed some GPU artifacts, now this is a common thing to see when I overclock it too high, but this is at stock and I've never had this before. then I jumped to CSGO and I notice a significant drop to my FPS, especially when near smoke it would just drop to below 30. Then I tried playing War Thunder, same thing, usually get around 100ish FPS at Cinematic now I get 40-50. BUT, I turned my pc on again the next day and everything is fine, none of the problems that I mentioned earlier. BUT (again, sorry for my lack of words here) I turned it on again today and the same issue happened, even to this point as I'm typing this.

 

Please, if there's anyone able to help, do let me know how to fix it.

 

Thank you

 

P.S. I tried running Unigine Superposition Benchmark when I first had the issue, and the score is the same as previously when I didn't have any 

[aaronhare]

Did you have any other programs open in the background. If you are using something in the background like Chrome on the days it is slow then close them out. That could be your issue. Good luck!

[iM8Pizza]

@AaronsDevI have speedfan and sapphire trixx and discord

and nothing more (when I'm playing games)

[aaronhare]

2 minutes ago, iM8Pizza said:

@AaronsDevI have speedfan and sapphire trixx and discord

and nothing more (when I'm playing games)

I dunno then. Lemme think about it.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

Is your Graphics Card dirty? I mean haven't you cleaned it like since the last month

[sambarr]

If you've been running the card overclocked for years, performance degradation could be the result of electromigration (card's dying).

 

You could try a different power supply, maybe yours is having issues and can't provide adequate voltages at high loads.

[Connor Price]

The fact that it seems to work fine some days points to it possibly being the power supply. I'd see if you could try another one. Could even be the PCIE slot on the motherboard. Try unplugging and reseating everything, just to be sure it's not a loose connection. Sometimes it can be something as trivial as that. Failing all of that, the GPU is probably just not stable anymore. You can try dropping the clocks and voltages to see if it stays stable and the artifacting disappears. 

[Alan Collins]

21 hours ago, iM8Pizza said:

Good day there

I've had my Sapphire Nitro R9 390 Tri-X since it's first launch and it has perform very well, going through everything that I need it to do. 
2 days ago however, I opened Saphire TRIXX (always do this when I first boot it) and noticed some GPU artifacts, now this is a common thing to see when I overclock it too high, but this is at stock and I've never had this before. then I jumped to CSGO and I notice a significant drop to my FPS, especially when near smoke it would just drop to below 30. Then I tried playing War Thunder, same thing, usually get around 100ish FPS at Cinematic now I get 40-50. BUT, I turned my pc on again the next day and everything is fine, none of the problems that I mentioned earlier. BUT (again, sorry for my lack of words here) I turned it on again today and the same issue happened, even to this point as I'm typing this.

 

Please, if there's anyone able to help, do let me know how to fix it.

 

Thank you

 

P.S. I tried running Unigine Superposition Benchmark when I first had the issue, and the score is the same as previously when I didn't have any 

 

I think ur problem is nit depending on VC . CUZ both of them are really good things for Gaming (even CSGO or WT) May be u've 2 see another HW ?

 

[Sergifq]

19 minutes ago, Alan Collins said:

I think ur problem is nit depending on VC . CUZ both of them are really good things for Gaming (even CSGO or WT) May be u've 2 see another HW ?

 

? I thought only English was allowed 

[Alan Collins]

OK ))) Think your problem is not depending on Video Card. Because both of them are really good things for Gaming (even CSGO or WT) May be You have to see another hardware to identify real problem. Also here is a question from me : can you describe your PC ? Are you bought custom pc ?

[iM8Pizza]

@Ordinarily_Greater I just cleaned it a week ago when I got a new case

@sambarr well I would if I have any power supplies around other than the one I'm using right now, I've been using the power supply along with the R9 390 since I first got the card (Thermaltake Toughpower 750W 80+Gold) and no, I don't run it overclocked all this years, I don't really see much benefit from 5+ fps while it sucks way more power and become hotter

@Connor Price I've tried downclocking it, as for the reseating I haven't but I just migrated from an old case about a week ago and everything was fine (didn't touch the internals ever again after I moved it)
@Alan Collins may I know what kind of hardware it is you're referring to? no it's custom built, bought it back in 2014 then upgraded my PSU and GPU in 2015

 

i5-3330
Asus B75M-A Micro-ATX

Team 8GB of RAM @1333Mhz

Deepcool Gammaxx 400

Sapphire Nitro Tri-X R9 390

1TB WD Black
1TB WD Blue

60GB Corsair LS SSD

Thermaltake Toughpower 750W 80+Gold

[Alan Collins]

 Perhaps the problem with the video card , it just overheated and began to die. Or the problem with the power supply. As an option try with another power supply, update the driver. See what temperature on the video card, perhaps because of overheating, it resets frequencies. If it does not help so try to  change the card
Also  what is the temperature of the CPU and video card under load?
 

[iM8Pizza]

On 3/23/2018 at 1:34 AM, Alan Collins said:

 Perhaps the problem with the video card , it just overheated and began to die. Or the problem with the power supply. As an option try with another power supply, update the driver. See what temperature on the video card, perhaps because of overheating, it resets frequencies. If it does not help so try to  change the card
Also  what is the temperature of the CPU and video card under load?
 

CPU stays around 55C during games and benchmarks. GPU usually goes around 70C and 78C in a hot day (I live in Indonesia, tropic here)

[Alan Collins]

Most likely, the video card is already dying, let it try to raise the cooler's revs, how long have you changed the thermo paste on the video card and whether cleaning has been done? If everything is normal, the card is clean, the paste is fresh and at lower rates it works just as badly, then the problem is in the video card. Due to overclocking and overheating, it apparently began to degrade