Help please!!

[KING_OF_SAND]

Not to long ago I thought that the BETA 320 drivers from Nvidia were giving tons of stutter issues but it seems to not be the driver but something else. I get this rubber band stutter in everything I play and it is getting VERY annoying. The only way to fix this is to restart the computer.

I have a reference EVGA 680 and a GTX 680 Signature 2 from EVGA. I have no idea what is causing this! And it is really pissing me off. Does anyone have any light to shed? Thank you!

This also happens with Single GPU.

 

[alienware]

Are you using EVGA Precision still?

Get rid of it, it totally fudged my SLI up completely.

 

[Devo234]

Sounds stupid but is your ram set up properly in the bios?
sounds really simple but a lot the time stuttering is down to that mate

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Sounds stupid but is your ram set up properly in the bios?
sounds really simple but a lot the time stuttering is down to that mate

I am also thinking it is RAM. I just disabled and uninstalled Virtu MVP to see if that will help. I will not know for a couple of hours if it did. It takes time, which is what is leading me to RAM.

I ran Microsoft memory Diag and no issues as well as a few hours of prime and memtest and everything is great.

Also AlienALX what do you use to monitor? I will go back to Afterburner but having a Signature 2 card I am not sure how well it will play with AB if any major (other than overclock) of the GPU BIOS has been changed. I will give it a go though if my solution did not work.

 

[alienware]

I went back to Afterburner. Something went wrong with PCX and it clocked my cards to 1355mhz.

I only use it as a fan speed controller now tbh. I gave up overclocking my GPUs a while back after I was done with all the benchmarks

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I went back to Afterburner. Something went wrong with PCX and it clocked my cards to 1355mhz.

I only use it as a fan speed controller now tbh. I gave up overclocking my GPUs a while back after I was done with all the benchmarks

The only reason I have it enabled is because I have one GPU that is clocked slightly higher than the other by default. They are SUPPOSED to clock to the lowest card speed but after monitoring both that does not seem to be the case. If it truly is the case that the cards are not clocked exactly that will cause frame issues because one is rendering faster than the other.

 

[alienware]

Yeah that sounds a bit odd tbh. I thought along the same lines, only that the clock speeds would be deciphered by the first GPU in the chain.

It's got to be Kepler boost tbh because on older SLI systems I've used before Kepler they would definitely default to the lower of the two speeds.

Afterburner has a option where you can sync the cards which I would imagine *should* therefore put them at the same speeds and set the fans to the same speeds per temp etc.

In fact, PCX has a sync option too. However as I said before PCX was completely screwy on my rig BUT only with the latest drivers that I really needed to use at the time because they sorted out Far Cry 3.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Yeah that sounds a bit odd tbh. I thought along the same lines, only that the clock speeds would be deciphered by the first GPU in the chain.

It's got to be Kepler boost tbh because on older SLI systems I've used before Kepler they would definitely default to the lower of the two speeds.

Afterburner has a option where you can sync the cards which I would imagine *should* therefore put them at the same speeds and set the fans to the same speeds per temp etc.

In fact, PCX has a sync option too. However as I said before PCX was completely screwy on my rig BUT only with the latest drivers that I really needed to use at the time because they sorted out Far Cry 3.

It's funny that you mention the Sync option because all that does is sync the offset values and not the actually MHz. And because one has a BIOS with a higher clock the values being at 0 will not give me reference speeds like my other 680. If I can flash the Signature 2 BIOS with a reference that would be awesome.

 

[alienware]

I would email EVGA and ask. They should both use the same PCB so in theory it should be fine but I would just check it with them.

Odd how it's only just started doing this.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I would email EVGA and ask. They should both use the same PCB so in theory it should be fine but I would just check it with them.

Odd how it's only just started doing this.

They are, but look closely at the power delivery. Other than the Sig uses an 8+6 look under the VRMs. Signature 2 is at top.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I found the BIOS my reference 680 uses (http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/118227/EVGA.GTX680.2048.120313_1.html)

No I just need to ask EVGA if the signature to is okay to flash with this.

 

[alienware]

It looks like they've just added extra power circuitry to a stock board tbh.

That, in theory, should not affect the bios.

EVGA are good with RMA though

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

It looks like they've just added extra power circuitry to a stock board tbh.

That, in theory, should not affect the bios.

EVGA are good with RMA though

I was wondering if this is accurate. It seems logical (http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119955) I did save my old BIOS in case. Also because I already own the card I want to mimic I am 100% that it works.