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Do I have a bottleneck or a broken card?

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Hello everyone.

 

First of all, this is my system:

 

AMD FX-6350 @ 4.6Ghz

MSI 970 Gaming

2x 8GB Kingston Hyperx 1866Mhz

Cooler Master Nepton 240m

Cooler Master G750m 

Gigabyte R9 380 G1 Gaming 4GB

 

I could use some help here. My graphics card is not running as it should. It should have a core clock of 990Mhz but when I run Furmark it never hits that. it just hovers between 770 en 860.

 

During Valley the core happily jumped between low 700 and 920ish with 

min fps   9

avg fps   39.5

max fps  76.1

 

Me thinking this is some problem with the voltage or anything, I tinkered with all possible options in AfterBurner but whatever I try, it stays about the same. I can overclock the Memory to around 1500 no problem. I also tried putting the card in another PCIE slot and another 8pin power. Again, no difference 

 

I RMA'ed the card but the shop says the card is being bottlenecked bt my CPU but somehow I have a hard time believing this as my FX-6350 seems like a quite capable CPU (Welcome haters and fanboys).

 

So I ask for you guys opinion. Is my card being bottlenecked or is it just bullshit from the shop?

 

Attached are the AfterBurner logs from both FurMark and Heaven.

 

Thanks in advance,

MiauwMaster

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is it hitting any power limits?

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6350 bottlenecks the 970, no way around that besides buying an Intel CPU.

He has a R9 380, the 970 is his mobo.

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6350 bottlenecks the 970, no way around that besides buying an Intel CPU.

It's an R9 380.

I used to be quite active here.

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6350 bottlenecks the 970, no way around that besides buying an Intel CPU.

You're getting confused between the motherboard and GPU. :P MSI 970 Gaming is the motherboard. R9 380 is the GPU.

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You're getting confused between the motherboard and GPU. :P MSI 970 Gaming is the motherboard. R9 380 is the GPU.

... I know.

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is it hitting any power limits?

As far as i know it is not hitting any limit. It doesn't look like it anyway. 

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