GTX 970 Issue?

[Rickster]

Hello Linus, Luke and forumites. I was wondering if you could help me with a issue that is bugging me quite a bit.

 

I had a EVGA GTX 460 EE, it was a good overall card but it was time for a upgrade.

 

So I got myself a EVGA GTX 970 FTW+ and my performance hasnt been that great compared to my friends that have various 970's (MSI,Galax) They report getting 40-50 more FPS in the same games at the same places on the same settings. In BF4 they get 110FPS and I get 60-70'ish

 

Here are my specs:

 

-I5 2500k at 3.3GHz (turbo to 4.0 to see if its a bottleneck issue)

-EVGA GTX 970 FTW+ @ 1400MHZ (@PCIEXPRESS 2.0)

-Corsair Dominator 16GB DDR3 @1333MHZ (4x4GB)

-Asus P8Z77-M

-Xigmatek Vector S850W

 

Driver: 353.49

Win 7 X64

1080P only.

 

Thanks guys, I hope to hear from you. :unsure:

[Comessy]

Run afterburner and tell up core clocks, gpu usage, and temperature while gaming

[Briggsy]

definitely not a cpu bottleneck. could possibly be drivers, if you didn't wipe the old ones before switching cards.

[Comessy]

definitely not a cpu bottleneck. could possibly be drivers, if you didn't wipe the old ones before switching cards.

Are they not the same drivers?

[Briggsy]

Are they not the same drivers?

 

the downloaded file is the same, but the installed drivers are definitely unique for different cards, or at least for different architectures.

[Rickster]

Run afterburner and tell up core clocks, gpu usage, and temperature while gaming

 

Id say 70/80% on bf4, 1400MHZ, 80 Degrees (its rather close to my sound card so thats why the temps are rather high.

[Comessy]

Id say 70/80% on bf4, 1400MHZ, 80 Degrees (its rather close to my sound card so thats why the temps are rather high.

What about CPU usage?

[Rickster]

What about CPU usage?

Mid 80's

[arronleeds]

It might be windows 7 bro, I had so many issues with bf4 stuttering and low fps, windows 8.1 did the job.

[Rickster]

It might be windows 7 bro, I had so many issues with bf4 stuttering and low fps, windows 8.1 did the job.

 

Would it really be a issue with windows 7? Why though?

[arronleeds]

Would it really be a issue with windows 7? Why though?

I believe it's to do with directx support, win 7 doesn't fully support 11.1, but not everybody has issues with windows 7 but I was one of the unlucky ones.

Why don't you and your mates play another game together and see if fps is the same ? Then you know if it's windows 7.

[AdamH96]

Would it really be a issue with windows 7? Why though?

Win 7 is also not as CPU efficient compared to Win 8.1 and 10.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/24/battlefield_4_windows_7_vs_81_performance_review/5#.VawrX-JViac

[Rickster]

Im really not keen to move to windows 8.1, but I will load win 8.1 to a spare HDD and test just to rule it out.