Terrible 2080 ti performance

[Doppler]

After completing my water cooling loop my GPU has been ruining games at a fraction of what i was getting at 3440 x 1440. Ive tried everything i could think of such as downgrading the drives, DDU, reinstalling windows, flashing the bios of the GPU, changing the power connectors to the GPU and updating the motherboards bios

Id appreciate some help if anyone knows the solution

 

[Toothless]

Temps? Block might not be making great contact.

 

[xvi]

Thinking the same. Even if it's not core temperature, could be a temperature issue somewhere else on the card. I pretty much always recommend checking GPU-Z and checking the "PERFCAP" reason under the Sensors tab.

 

[Doppler]

I remounted the cooler and checked GPU-Z there as been no diffidence in performance

Image of the PrefCap Reason during a benchmark of Unigine heaven at max settings

 

[xvi]

If you hover your mouse over the graph there, it should give you a text explanation for the reason. I'm not familiar with the color-coding there, although someone else here might.

 

[eidairaman1]

What corsair ram are you specifically running?

 

[Doppler]

The ram i have is corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB CMK64GX4M2E3200C16 and the most common GPU-Z PrefCap readings are Power, VRel, VOp

 

[bubbleawsome]

If you check the clock of the GPU is it stuck at 300Mhz? A power circuit failure causes nvidia cards to lock at 300Mhz and code as power limited IIRC.

 

[Caring1]

Apparently LPX doesn't play nice with Ryzen systems.
Just throwing that out there.

 

[Doppler]

The GPU is at 1700Mhz and the computer was running fine before I water cooled the system

 

[Regeneration]

The GPU is at 1700Mhz and the computer was running fine before I water cooled the system

Perhaps some component (VRM, IC) is overheating. Look at the stock heatsink and place heatsinks accordingly.

 

[Doppler]

I am using an EK waterblock and there is no space to add heatsinks to the GPU

 

[joemama]

Can you just post any picture with the temperatures of the die and the vram during gaming?

 

[Doppler]

that the sensor log after running unigine heaven

 

[Caring1]

After completing my water cooling loop my GPU has been ruining games at a fraction of what i was getting at 3440 x 1440.

You're not being specific, you say your GPU is "ruining" your games but don't indicate how or what is occurring.
Are the frame rates lower, artifacts etc?
Also flashing is a last resort and should not be done unless instructed to.
Did you take a screenshot of Heaven's score once the benchmark was finished?

I'd say your temps are fine at 78C - 79C.

 

[Caring1]

Try aiming a fan at the VRM section around the CPU.
The GPU looks fine to me but PerfCap reason fluctuates between #16 and #1
A screenshot of the GPU-z sensor tab open may have been easier to read.

 

[xo4ox]

I had almost the exact issue with my 2080 ti, id recommend taking a better look at the fitment of the block, mine was hitting 71-72c and the clocks were behaving almost as yours, same with the power consumption. it took me 2 times remounting the block for the temps to go down about 15-20c under load and clocks went back to behaving as usual at 2000mhz and power consumption is hitting 300watts on gpuz

edit: here is my forum post about the same issue:

2080 Ti core clock problem, please help

Here are my system specs: Intel Core i7 9700k Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master HyperX predator 16gb DDR4 ram Inno3d 2080 Ti X2 OC Corsair HX 1200watt power supply 970 evo plus m.2 ssd I got this system on February of 2019 and been using it since with no issues, the system is water cooled for over 5...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Cranky5150]

This sounds like a straight up mounting issue to me, something is definitively not making contact. I know this sounds dumb, but are you SURE that you removed the clear sticker on the block before installing? I ask because i have done it myself before, and my card throttled until i removed the block to see.

 

[Agent_D]

Very much sounds like an improperly installed block. As mentioned, did you remove the clear sticker, did you place the thermal pads for VRM/etc in the correct places, did you use the correct sizes?

If the answer to all of these is yes after you have double checked; you may have knocked off a small capacitor or something else during the install, I've had this happen to myself and others before, it's an expensive lesson sometimes.