So I built my PC about 8 months ago:
ASROCK z97x Killer
Intel i5 4690k @ stock speeds
GTX 970 @ stock speeds
2x 4GB DDR3 1866 GSKILL SNIPER
256GB Mushkin SSD
Antec 550BP power supply
It ran great when I first assembled it no screen tearing even with VSYNC off no stuttering all my games ran GREAT. So about a month ago I went to apply thermal paste because my temps were high and uneven across each core and when I did I noticed I had 4 or 5 bent pins on the motherboard socket. I did some research and it turned out those 4 or 5 pins were grounds and my PC booted and seemed to work fine so I kept running it. About a week ago I bought a 1TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD off a buddy for $20 and I plugged it in and formatted windows. Biggest mestake of my life, because now every game I play has stuttering and terrible screen tear, I cant even play ARMA 3 without VSYNC anymore because screen tearing is so bad the game stutters if I use VSYNC its smooth as butter. CSGO used to run fine but now it stutters as well, Dark Souls II has screen tear and never used to basically all my games are unplayable. The weird thing is my FPS in CSGO is like 300 my FPS in ARMA is between 40 and 100 etc. etc. my pings are all low I havnt done anything out of the ordinary that I havnt done in the last 8 months. Like literally I've ran 3dmark and I got a 9500 (which seems about right.) all my FPS seem right in games so im not having any performance issues just this damn screen tearing stuttering! So right now I'm debating if it's my motherboard (which I dont know because im not sure when or how the pins got bent could have been last time i applied paste could have been the first time i assembled the pc....) or it's my Power supply but that doesnt make sense either because I've rant his PSU for nearly 8 months. or it's my GPU but this is my second one I already RMA'd one for artifacting and whatnot so its a brand spankin new card. ASROCK said they would replace my board and only charge me $50 so I guess I'll do that but if I do that and reassemble my whole PC and it's still doing this im going to freak out!
So heres what I've tried:
I did try VSYNC adaptive and non adaptive, this works in ALL of my games the oonly problem is I cant use it in CSGO because of input lag and I cannot use it in arma 3 because i vary rarely hold 60fps so the game becomes choppy.
I reinstalled drivers including trying old and new ones
I formatted and tried a different OS twice.
I checked my TDP on my GPU and it never goes over 80%
I calculated my power consumption and my 550w should be fine (like I said vie ran it 8 months fine.)
I tried messing around in NVIDIA control panel tried setting fps cap to 59 and all that good stuff capping my FPS actually make the games more choppy.
I reset my BIOS and updated them.
I RMA'd my GPU already once for artifacting so I have a brand new GPU basically hasnt artifacted once.
I tried a different cable and slot on my GPU and messed with my monitor settings.
I'm at a loss, I'm about to send my motherboard back to get a replacement and I'm about to go out and buy a 750w Bronze PSU but before I spend all that money I would like to know if any of you have suggestions.
PLEASE DONT TELL ME TO ENABLE VSYNC I HAVE im aware screen tearing is part of all games and sometimes it can be worse in some games than others. But I have been using this PC for 8 months and I tell you 100% that the screen tearing and stuttering were not NEARLY this bad I'm telling you games are almost unplayable without vsync and I've never used vsync in my life.
I really dont know what to do and its really pissing me off because I just put around $1400 into building this and im already having problems 8 months later and I cant even enjoy my games
please help me guys. I'm going to try and get a video of what it looks like so you can all see that its not NORMAL screen tearing, its more of a stutter like the screen tears and it makes everything look likeits stuttering.
ASROCK z97x Killer
Intel i5 4690k @ stock speeds
GTX 970 @ stock speeds
2x 4GB DDR3 1866 GSKILL SNIPER
256GB Mushkin SSD
Antec 550BP power supply
It ran great when I first assembled it no screen tearing even with VSYNC off no stuttering all my games ran GREAT. So about a month ago I went to apply thermal paste because my temps were high and uneven across each core and when I did I noticed I had 4 or 5 bent pins on the motherboard socket. I did some research and it turned out those 4 or 5 pins were grounds and my PC booted and seemed to work fine so I kept running it. About a week ago I bought a 1TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD off a buddy for $20 and I plugged it in and formatted windows. Biggest mestake of my life, because now every game I play has stuttering and terrible screen tear, I cant even play ARMA 3 without VSYNC anymore because screen tearing is so bad the game stutters if I use VSYNC its smooth as butter. CSGO used to run fine but now it stutters as well, Dark Souls II has screen tear and never used to basically all my games are unplayable. The weird thing is my FPS in CSGO is like 300 my FPS in ARMA is between 40 and 100 etc. etc. my pings are all low I havnt done anything out of the ordinary that I havnt done in the last 8 months. Like literally I've ran 3dmark and I got a 9500 (which seems about right.) all my FPS seem right in games so im not having any performance issues just this damn screen tearing stuttering! So right now I'm debating if it's my motherboard (which I dont know because im not sure when or how the pins got bent could have been last time i applied paste could have been the first time i assembled the pc....) or it's my Power supply but that doesnt make sense either because I've rant his PSU for nearly 8 months. or it's my GPU but this is my second one I already RMA'd one for artifacting and whatnot so its a brand spankin new card. ASROCK said they would replace my board and only charge me $50 so I guess I'll do that but if I do that and reassemble my whole PC and it's still doing this im going to freak out!
So heres what I've tried:
I did try VSYNC adaptive and non adaptive, this works in ALL of my games the oonly problem is I cant use it in CSGO because of input lag and I cannot use it in arma 3 because i vary rarely hold 60fps so the game becomes choppy.
I reinstalled drivers including trying old and new ones
I formatted and tried a different OS twice.
I checked my TDP on my GPU and it never goes over 80%
I calculated my power consumption and my 550w should be fine (like I said vie ran it 8 months fine.)
I tried messing around in NVIDIA control panel tried setting fps cap to 59 and all that good stuff capping my FPS actually make the games more choppy.
I reset my BIOS and updated them.
I RMA'd my GPU already once for artifacting so I have a brand new GPU basically hasnt artifacted once.
I tried a different cable and slot on my GPU and messed with my monitor settings.
I'm at a loss, I'm about to send my motherboard back to get a replacement and I'm about to go out and buy a 750w Bronze PSU but before I spend all that money I would like to know if any of you have suggestions.
PLEASE DONT TELL ME TO ENABLE VSYNC I HAVE im aware screen tearing is part of all games and sometimes it can be worse in some games than others. But I have been using this PC for 8 months and I tell you 100% that the screen tearing and stuttering were not NEARLY this bad I'm telling you games are almost unplayable without vsync and I've never used vsync in my life.
I really dont know what to do and its really pissing me off because I just put around $1400 into building this and im already having problems 8 months later and I cant even enjoy my games
please help me guys. I'm going to try and get a video of what it looks like so you can all see that its not NORMAL screen tearing, its more of a stutter like the screen tears and it makes everything look likeits stuttering.
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