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I thought I was going crazy, ever since I got the new GPU I noticed when I join a game I would always be the last one in and before the new GPU I would always be first.

Now all of a sudden I read if power management mode in the NVIDIA control panel is set to optimal it has a massive effect if you have an SSD, so massive the term half speed was used, changed the setting to adaptive now all of a sudden my system is fast again.

Ran a Unigine benchmark and my FPS went up another 10FPS and I'm first in the lobby again.

It makes no sense why a NVIDIA setting should affect your SSD that much.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I thought I was going crazy, ever since I got the new GPU I noticed when I join a game I would always be the last one in and before the new GPU I would always be first.

Now all of a sudden I read if power management mode in the NVIDIA control panel is set to optimal it has a massive effect if you have an SSD, so massive the term half speed was used, changed the setting to adaptive now all of a sudden my system is fast again.

Ran a Unigine benchmark and my FPS went up another 10FPS and I'm first in the lobby again.

It makes no sense why a NVIDIA setting should affect your SSD that much.
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Thanks for the info man, I must check that!
 
UrBaN963 said:
Thanks for the info man, I must check that!
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I never even changed it, it was set to Optimal Power by default.

I don't know if the GPU-Z values maybe change when you adjust that setting but now with it in Adaptive mode and playing CSGO with the highest setting my power consumption was under 50% for most of the time and never went above 60%, with Optimal Power it was around 70% going up to 80%.
 
^, you've got CSGO on your SSD...I'm envious. I had a Steam library (just for CSGO + couple other games) on a Samsung 750 Evo and started getting microstutter that I couldn't get rid off...moved the game over to a spinning drive and it went away.
 
Neoprod said:
^, you've got CSGO on your SSD...I'm envious. I had a Steam library (just for CSGO + couple other games) on a Samsung 750 Evo and started getting microstutter that I couldn't get rid off...moved the game over to a spinning drive and it went away.
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the only game i have on my SSD is CSGO. i find the load times are much better but i feel they slowing down so i might move it back to the 1Tb and see how it is. lol its all i can really fit on the SSD
 
I run it on my SSD too. All other Steam stuff and games is on my spinningdisk
 
Neoprod said:
^, you've got CSGO on your SSD...I'm envious. I had a Steam library (just for CSGO + couple other games) on a Samsung 750 Evo and started getting microstutter that I couldn't get rid off...moved the game over to a spinning drive and it went away.
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Is your SSD cached? I had stutter with mine when I used to have Momentum Cache on my Crucial enabled. Lately I have only installed games on the SSD which are open-world or with 'impatient' loading times.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Is your SSD cached? I had stutter with mine when I used to have Momentum Cache on my Crucial enabled. Lately I have only installed games on the SSD which are open-world or with 'impatient' loading times.
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Dunno...how do I check?

tbh, loading times didn't really matter to me for CSGO so I didn't look too hard into fixing it :p
 
Neoprod said:
Dunno...how do I check?

tbh, loading times didn't really matter to me for CSGO so I didn't look too hard into fixing it :p
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It does make a difference, I found my reload times are a bit quicker on the SSD...
 
Neoprod said:
Dunno...how do I check?

tbh, loading times didn't really matter to me for CSGO so I didn't look too hard into fixing it :p
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It is normally manually enabled. I think Samsung calls their tech "RAPID Mode", but not entirely sure. I had a read up on my issue last year somewhere where Momentum Cache may cause issues with gaming.
 
I think having CSGO on my SSD is the one thing that's helping my humble laptop at least hit a playable framerate. Without that, I'd just sit in a corner on Dust 2, throwing molotovs all over myself (oh wait -> I did that once already lol)
 
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