Hi, wonder if anyone can offer me some troubleshooting tip for my R12? I've had it about a month and still feeling things out. It's a 3090 with an i9 11900kf. Everything is still stock and no modifications or overclocking yet.
I expected a performance boost over my old custom built i5 8600k and GTX-1070ti, but I'm not seeing it in games. Main games I play are BF2042, Fortnite and MSFS2020. FS2020 seems to be a slight improvement by a few FPS (~40fps) but Fortnite (~110fps) and BF2042 (60-70fps) perform slightly worse than my old system (all in game settings the same).
I've run several benchmarks Heaven, 3DMark, Cinebench and they all seem to be reasonable scores for this hardware.
I'm getting some weird results with CPU-Z stress test but not sure how to interpret it. The test starts off slightly lower (6450) than the i9 11900k reference system I choose which scores at 6522, but it then steadily decreases over a few minutes to 5781. It hovers there for a few minutes and then drops to 0. AWCC reports idle temp and clock at about 30 deg C and 5ghz. As soon as the stress test starts the temp immediately jumps to 67 deg C and the clock drops to 4.65ghz. After about 30 seconds the clock and temp stabilize at 4.45ghz and 70 deg C.
I thought thermal throttling on this processor starts at 80 so I'm not 100% sure what I'm seeing here. Do you think this could be throttling? I can run new tests and post them here if anyone is willing to take a look and offer suggestions. I have the following installed:
PCMark10, 3DMark, VRMark, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, HWiNfo, AWCC, Cinebench. I can install anything else recommended if it will help.
The processor is water cooled and OS is Windows 11. All drivers and updates are applied if that helps.
Thanks for any suggestions.