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I hate troubleshooting PC software biggest pain hands-down hardware simple because you only have a finite number of pieces with which to tamper and remove too and a narrow down your choices but after you've done that you only have software left it could only be a software hardware issue when it comes to PCs or maybe a networking issue but I would still call that software so in my cases there were two of them my CPU is not running up to spec and my GPU sli config and there's a two 1080s those are just reference PCBs if you're wondering those we're not scaling properly so my frame rates were actually better with a single 1080 then they were being sli which was really confusing and that one I still haven't completely figured out we're going to dive into this video what I did to diagnose first the CPU issue and then kind of narrow down what could have caused the graphics cards to scale incorrectly in SLI so let's start first with the CPU now disclaimer upfront I don't have a script or anything like that in front of me this is just me expressing my concerns and kind of trying to figure out what exactly went wrong because a few of you did Express similar concerns on Twitter when I was venting over there I was trying to get advice it's not like hey help me I've never seen this before so I have an idea what could have caused these issues we'll address those in this video first with the CPU that when I am pretty sure I know what was wrong at least generally speaking what was wrong there so I noticed that my CPU was not performing up to spec in that my rendering times and Adobe Premiere we're taking too long usually it's about a minute per minute with a 1080p 60fps file so a 5 minute video and Adobe Premiere takes about five minutes to export using the h.264 YouTube 1080p preset well that was not happening recently just floating in here recently it's been taking 8 nine minutes for a five-minute video file that was annoying and it definitely caught my attention so being the curious individual I was I decided to open up Cinebench this is all before I decided to make this video mind you and run a benchmark I assume that if the CP wasn't performing up the spec that I would see that difference in the score itself and sure enough my i7 6700 K clock to 4.5 gigahertz was only achieving a score of 820 and I confirmed multiple times that no other major background processes were running so what the heck was causing this and it was by this time that I started noticing my frame rates were nowhere near what they should have been considering - 10 80s were packed inside of this build I assumed partly that the CPU was to blame it wasn't performing like an i7 shoot it was actually more employed with like a severely overclocked I five I guess 7600 k5 gigahertz will score close to this score here in Cinebench so it was almost like hyper-threading wasn't active but hardware monitor was showing all eight threads almost 6700 K running at 100% on top of that I 264 confirmed that no thermal throttling was present on the chip period so not during a benchmark not during idle situations the CPU temperatures were fine core and package I have a custom loop in here the temperatures barely hit 70 C even with a 4.6 diggers overclock and a 1.3 7v core I checked page filing I checked Ram I checked everything that I could the last thing I decided to do was hop into the BIOS the BIOS still confirmed everything that I thought was already good to go the frequency was a 4.5 gigahertz the voltage was that I think at the time 1.3 5 volts and ddr4 was running at 3200 mega it's actually under spec it was 3,600 out-of-the-box but i just-i down clock it just in case because sometimes those higher profiles can cause instabilities with Windows 10 at this point you could imagine my frustration why was my i7 not performing like an i7 I said screw it I'm just going to overclock the 4.8 gigahertz and boost the V court of 1.4 see if you didn't like that this is the skylake cpu mind you so the seamless had me reset and when that happens everything that you that you've predetermined in the BIOS all the settings are all reset back to default as they would have been out of the box and that fix my issue I booted back stock into the OS ran said a bench and look at there my score was actually better than it was at the 4.5 gigahertz frequency run I have no clue what's going on you I've done this so many times I've overclocked so many processors with so many different motherboards and UEFI s but resetting the CMOS ended up fixing the issue I I don't that's all I that's all I have frankly I wish I could tell you more but if you run into an issue where your CPU doesn't it is feel like your CPUs performing as it should then it's probably got something to do with your BIOS and you should immediately go back into that clear CMOS and just start from scratch keep it very simple very basic especially when it comes to overclock otherwise you might have a hardware issue in which case start part swapping that's really all I've got for you there now on to the graphics cards this is a science Channel I like to have as many of the answers as possible before filming but to this point I still cannot explain what happened I don't know why my framerate was so terrible as a result of such low GPU usage that was the issue that I kept trying to Google I asked people on Twitter why are my SLI 1080 s only being utilized around 30 40 percent in games when I build blue sky way back when check out the video on one of these sides here when I built blue sky I was using the exact same 1080 sli config and I was achieving way higher frame rates and I was at this point so I wasn't sure if they weren't running at 8 you know 8 lanes each or if the frequencies were just dropping significantly maybe thermal throttling well I check the lanes they were both throwing it at x8 3.0 which is what you wanted with an SLI can say at least 16 by 16 is okay as well so the lane config was fine the frequencies were fine the usage though was just way too low and that's why the frame rate was low because the cards weren't being pushed anywhere near their limits I confirmed the CPU usage was where it should have been so the cpu wasn't holding anything back my RAM wasn't being maxed out the page filing was still ok in the clear at this point the only thing that I'm here to do was completely wipe my OS that's right I deleted everything on my computer that's why there's not much on the desktop anymore and reinstall the operating system I'm currently downloading games now to catch back up to where I was before all of this happened and that fix the issue check it out the framerate is actually much higher it's but it's actually much closer to what it was when I built blue sky a few months ago and now I'm a happy camper but I'm not happy in the sense that I don't know why it happened I I hate not being able to explain to all of you at least in some detail what caused the low GP of usage a few people are just going to automatically default to well with SLI oh so wise unreliable Crossfire's unreliable and video drivers blah blah blah I don't think the Nvidia drivers were to blame because I use the exact same driver after the fresh OS install and the SL I can say is now being utilized almost at 100% in every scenario so maybe the operating system I'm not going to point fingers at a particular thing but I think that there was some setting in Windows that may have changed without me knowing or maybe I did it just accidentally that was severely holding back the cards I went through everything on Google I went through the Nvidia control panel I made sure that everything was sent to performance and that I wasn't holding any of the cards back trust me I did everything that you guys suggested on Twitter and more and nothing until the fresh OS install gave me any result at all I even have a g-sync monitor hooked up and I assume that that was causing it if you google GPU usage low 1080s sli the first thing that comes up is a G sync issue where for some reason the SLI can say doesn't work well with G sync and of pushing far fewer frames than they should and that's why the cards don't work very hard but turn that off did nothing for me it actually made things slightly worse on screen visually so that's kind of where I have to end the video now if you are in doubt I know it sucks I hate recommending fresh OS install because it takes a lot of time and you have to backup a ton of files and if you don't do that then you're be sitting around for days reinstalling all of the programs that you previously had on your operating system but that cured my cancer and I think that I'm going to be very careful about where I go where I click any operating system any Nvidia control panel from now on just don't do anything that you that you aren't familiar with don't click on something that you are not sure what it does and don't change settings that aren't in-game if you change things outside of game settings then it's going to affect your entire system it will affect every game that you play from there on out just a few words of wisdom take them from someone who basically trialed and errored for the past three days I am proud to say though that whatever I did by installing the operating system all over again fix the graphics card equalization issue again the BIOS seamless reset fix the CPU and it's just as dirty overclock I guess is what that was but it fixed it those are last resorts but they're surefire ways to fix software issues if that doesn't fix whatever you're trying to six then you might have a serious hardware issue one that you can't fix yourself with that give this video a thumbs up if you thought it was cool to dislike if you just hate everything about life or you just dislike the video because think I don't know what I'm doing whatever click a subscribe but if you haven't already and I will catch you in the next video another car video coming 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