Friday, December 23, 2011 5:04 PM
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Hey guys,
I have been having some issues with my main PC, I am running the following specs-
i7 920 stock (2.6ghz I believe)
6gb Corsair DDR3 Memory
EVGA Geforce 560 Ti
Thermaltake PSU 750w (I believe this is the wattage, I am not at home so I don't have specs for everything exactly, models etc)
EVGA X58 Mobo
When I got this card everything seemed to run fine and I really did not have many problems. I got into BF3 beta months ago and ever since going to 280.xx (I believe) and up drivers for the beta I started to get the common 'kernal crash' errors people talk about. I have not had this issue since moving to newer drivers but I've started to experience an issue I can't find anything on.
When initially loading my PC, I can run a game and it will take a long time to load and I get very poor FPS. Initially I thought this was BF3 only but I've had the same problem in all games. If I reboot my PC games run probably 2 - 3x better than upon my first boot. Sometimes if I just turn on my pc, then reboot again right away and load a game I still have poor FPS. I also get about 20 fps even running optimally (after reboot) with SWTOR in many areas, PVP is also very laggy poor fps.
I recently updated to the beta drivers released just the other night (forget the version) and still see the same problems. I am not doing any CPU overclocking and I've increased GPU fan speeds to 85% to prevent overheating and I have done some very slight, marginal GPU over clocking using EVGA precision (doubtful this affects this issue, I have also set stock settings and still have the same problem).
Could this be a bad card? I will also note I have had some run ins with viruses multiple times and have had to clean up my system many times. I plan on making some changes to my system today since I just got a new SSD so I will be doing a clean Windows install.