MSI z77 MPOWER Poor GPU Benchmarks!! HELP?

[jmotyka]

I just installed my MSI Z77 MPOWER yesterday.

Specs

Case - NZXT Switch 810 White
Power supply - Corsair TX750m
Motherboard -MSI Z77 MPOWER
CPU - Intel -5 2500k
CPU Cooler - Corsair h80i (Love this thing.)
Memory - Mushkin 16gb Blackline
SSD - 2x 128gb Sandisk Extreme
Storeage - WD Caviar Black 1TB
Graphics Card - GTX670 Galaxy 1062Boost - 6368 Memory Clock
Fans - 4 Corsair sp120's (I Hate them, so im buying noctua)
NZXT 140's
OS 1 Windows 7 Ultimate
OS 2 Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Full Video, Audio, Ethernet Support, Still working on usb3.0 its been giving me a hard time.

Now i love this board. Probably the best motherboard of 2012 hands down. Now my only gripe is im getting poor performance with unigine heaven. I have not tried other benchmarks besides geekbench and thats cpu related. Now my previous mobo was the p67 fatality performance, which was an ok mobo, i had some issues hense the new Mpower. I was gettting 1500-1600 points on heaven with everything maxed out @1920x1080p on the asrock fatality board. I have an effective stable cpu overclock of 4.4ghz and im not going further, i dont need to, my current gpu specs are above. with the msi moard im getting 1100 and thats putting lightly, one time i got 900. Now what do you suppose my issue is? I seen an option in bios settings>PCI subsystem settings> PCI BUS clocks are at 32, Is that the preferred clock for that, or is any of the other options like 248 bus clocks? Im not familiar with this bios setting as i didnt have this in my last board? I need input on this issue.

 

[jamesriley94]

Why do you put it down to the motherboard, not the card?

Benchmarks like that always vary. How does it perform on games?

 

[jmotyka]

I stated why i blame it on the mobo, because i wasnt getting that low of scores until i installed this motherboard! LOL

 

[jamesriley94]

Meeeh - I skim read too much

As I said though - benchmarks do often vary from system to system.

Is there any performance difference in games? It doesn't really affect you if the score is a little low in heaven if everything is performing fine while gaming.

Are you sure all RAM settings and overclocks are the same / stable?

PS - is 1062mhz the max OC you can get on your card? I have the same one and mine overclocks terribly too. Just the fan that it looks good and the fans are silent make up for that in my eyes.

 

[jmotyka]

I perform fine in games. Also im am at a stable overclock. The GPU overclock is the same OC values i used in the old board.

 

[airdeano]

for grins, did you connect the 6-pin to power the PCI-e lanes? usually used
for SLI/X-Fire, but since it is "GPU releated, kinda worth a plug-in to see..

i've seen countless reviews of the MPower and they all have the GPU benches at
the top 5 of graphs in performance.

also verify in the UEFI Integrated Graphics-> Initaet Graphics Adapter is
set to [PEG]. and you set PCIE GEN3 for disable (since the sandy bridge isn't 3.0 capable).

*PCI Latency Timer
Controls how long each PCI device can hold the bus before another takes over.​

When set to higher values, every PCI device can conduct transactions for a longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth.​

 

[jmotyka]

for grins, did you connect the 6-pin to power the PCI-e lanes? usually used
for SLI/X-Fire, but since it is "GPU releated, kinda worth a plug-in to see..

i've seen countless reviews of the MPower and they all have the GPU benches at
the top 5 of graphs in performance.

also verify in the UEFI Integrated Graphics-> Initaet Graphics Adapter is
set to [PEG]. and you set PCIE GEN3 for disable (since the sandy bridge isn't 3.0 capable).

The i have ran heaven benchmark with the 6pin unplugged and plugged and have no difference. It is set to peg, and pcie gen3 is disabled.

 

[airdeano]

what kind of temperatures are being generated during the benchmark runs?
your overclock has the multiplier at 100?

 

[jmotyka]

average......between 60-70c

 

[Josh Weston]

Latest BIOS for the motherboard?
Did you do a clean install of Windows when you switched motherboard?
Latest drivers?