PythonHaxor

Ok thanks Pvt. 8Ball

Ok update for you guys. What I forgot to tell you is that I've been using DDU between every new driver installation, so old drivers shouldn't be any problem. I installed Furmark and let it run for a while, temperatures got up to 80 degrees celsius and stopped there. (never goes this high while gaming though). I stumbled across a post on another forum where someone suggested that overclocking the power limit to +20% might fix it. I did this and GTA V performance improved drastically. It's now butter smooth at 80+fps almost highest settings. The GPU usage is no longer throttling up and down as much in GTA either. Fallout fps have not improved though. HOWEVER my system is now really unstable, I usually can't play a game for more than 15 min before I either get BSOD or Artifacts all over the screen and freezing. I also can't plug in a third monitor, the GPU doesn't recognize it until I unplug a monitor that I'm already using. Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V PSU: iArena GPA-500S8 I'm starting to think that I need to buy a new power supply. I will try what you suggested SK_Caterpilar_SK and report back soon. Edit: Did not find any PCIe Frequency settings.

So I bought this graphics card very recently and so far I'm very disappointed. My older card (gtx 560) has been performing better than my new one. I'm now playing GTA V at 30-40 fps on medium settings, actually pretty much no matter what settings in the game I change the fps stays the same. Fallout 4 is stuttering like crazy on medium settings and fps is around 25 in the cities and 60 out in the wilderness. GPU usage is going wild while i'm playing, pic (GTA V gameplay): http://i.imgur.com/TVxVi8y.png Temp is still stable though. I have tried different AMD drivers, old and new ones, doesn't really make any difference. Anyone knows what's going on here? I'm pretty sure the performance isn't supposed to be this bad. Is the card maybe defect? Or is my CPU just bottlenecking? Specs: CPU: Intel® Core i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz RAM: 8192MB RAM GPU: AMD Radeon R9 380 Series (the XFX version) PSU: 500W (all voltage levels are stable) DxDiag: http://txt.do/5zvcg