Latest FPS drop observed.
Latest FPS drop observed.
Recently acquired an RTX ASUS TUF 3080 on October 4th. Conducted extensive game testing. Achieved 130-120 FPS in Warzone, Grand Theft Auto V, No Mans Sky, and Red Dead Redemption 2. After a week, I experienced drops to the 80-90 range, particularly in GTA 5 Story mode sometimes falling below 60. Prior adjustments included changing NVidia control panel settings. Initially set to balanced power mode; switched to performance after that. Tried MSI overclocking with voltage locked. The OC scanner became unresponsive and exited several times. I enabled Ryzen Master CPU overclocking in game mode, still maintaining 120-130 FPS. A few days later, I installed the latest Windows 2004 update. This led to noticeable FPS drops during intense games. For example, Apex Legends still reached 144 at full refresh. After a while, I noticed the FPS fluctuations. I suspected the issue might stem from the new NVMe drive in the second slot, which could be consuming bandwidth. Removing it didn’t resolve the problem, so I reinstalled it. After re-seating the GPU, inspecting power pins, reapplying thermal paste to the CPU, and updating the BIOS, I ran Kombustor and Userbenchmark before the instability. Scores remained consistent with previous runs, suggesting the GPU is functioning properly. My GPU rarely hits 70°C, and CPU stays under 65°C. It’s frustrating seeing such significant frame drops without a clear cause—could be my recent tweaks or hardware changes affecting performance. I’m left questioning whether any setting adjustment in NVidia settings had such a big impact on in-game frames.