Posts by boldpilot3

Is it possible I've just got a trash card because of that 3GB of NVIDIA? It feels totally inadequate for these high-detail titles. Everything else looks fine to me—temps are solid, even hitting 76C on the GPU, and everything else seems chill enough.

Just finished installing Windows 11

Just fired up Call of Duty thinking it might play like Fortnite, but it’s a totally different beast. It runs fine on high settings with maybe 70 FPS, but then the frame rates just tank out of nowhere constantly.

Locked the GPU Core Lock at 1809.5MHz.
Locked the memory at 2003.4MHz.
GPU load's sitting at 95%. Just great.
NVIDIA usage sitting at 2945 MB.

CPU hitting 57°C. Not exactly breaking any records, but I'll take it.
CPU min freq - 797MHz (if that’s the clock speed you were talking about)

I was testing out the card at a buddy's place to see how it holds up. He’s running a Ryzen 5 2600. It handled Call of Duty and PUBG on ultra settings without breaking a sweat—zero drops or anything like that.

Even after capping it at 60fps, I'm still seeing the same thing—it just tanks down to 20-40...

Specs:
RTX 3060
i5-8400
ASRock H310M-HDV
8gb ram 2666mhz
Corsair RM700
Seagate 7200 1Tb
Grabbed a CPU cooler too.

Finally got the last part in today after ordering everything online. Just finished the build, installed Windows 11, and grabbed the drivers for the card. Figured I'd jump straight into some gaming. Downloaded Call of Duty, cranked settings to high, and FPS was sitting pretty at 130-140. But then things get weird—the game starts acting up. The frame rate looks fine, then suddenly tanks to 60 or something, causing these massive stutters right when I'm in the middle of a fight. It happens constantly.
Checked temperatures using HWInfo and everything seems fine, hovering around 50 C.
Honestly, I'm lost. Could be a Windows issue, bad drivers, or who knows... just staring at a screen here.

Thanks a ton for the help 🙂

Really digging this build, but I noticed you don't have that motherboard in stock anymore...

Would that PSU actually hold up for the build you put together?

Look, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I actually dig that CPU—it’s a steal for what it costs. This is my first time building a rig, and since I live for gaming, this build feels pretty much spot on for me. I'm torn, though: should I prioritize a beefier processor or a better GPU? I haven't really done the whole assembly thing before, so if anyone can spec out a build for the same budget that actually outperforms what I've put together, I'm all ears.

Plus a PC for $1833. Honestly, doesn't matter which store you hit up.

I put this together using that American iPhone site.
https://prnt.sc/kcwmdo