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Hi, I have a Zotac GTX 970 and my GPU usage is low on games I've been testing. My specs are AMD FX 8350 @4.5 GHz, Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0, 8GBs of G.Skill Ripjaws ddr3 memory and a Corsair CX600. Here are some images of MSI Afterburner while playing Witcher 3, running around Oxenfurt http://imgur.com/a/o06xr. Even when I run Unigine Heaven benchmark I can't achieve a steady 99% gpu usage and drops pretty significantly sometimes. Is this normal for my setup?

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Hi, I have a Zotac GTX 970 and my GPU usage is low on games I've been testing. My specs are AMD FX 8350 @4.5 GHz, Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0, 8GBs of G.Skill Ripjaws ddr3 memory and a Corsair CX600. Here are some images of MSI Afterburner while playing WItcher 3, running around Oxenfurt http://imgur.com/a/o06xr . Even when I run Unigine Heaven benchmark I can't achieve a steady 99% gpu usage and drops pretty significantly sometimes. Is this normal for my setup?

have you overclocked it

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Nope it's not normal, I'm @ 100% GPU usage all the time when playing The Witcher 3 with the same CPU at the same clock speed, I'm using a 290X which is faster than a 970 so that should rule out the CPU bottleneck, your power supply i bad by the way, you should change it cause it might be limiting the GPU

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what is your CPU load graphs

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Nope it's not normal, I'm @ 100% GPU usage all the time when playing The Witcher 3 with the same CPU at the same clock speed, I'm using a 290X which is faster than a 970 so that should rule out the CPU bottleneck, your power supply i bad by the way, you should change it cause it might be limiting the GPU

Any way I could know that my PSU is causing it through other means than replacing it?

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ok the CPU graphs and GPU are all over the place

 

are you sure you have install the drivers properly?

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ok the CPU graphs and GPU are all over the place

 

are you sure you have install the drivers properly?

Pretty sure. Before this I had a Radeon HD 7870, unistalled the AMD drivers and then I went on to Nvidia's website and downloaded the latest drivers for the GTX 970. I have all my mobo drivers as well.

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Pretty sure. Before this I had a Radeon HD 7870, and unistalled the AMD drivers. Then I went on to Nvidia's website and downloaded the latest drivers for the GTX 970. I have all my mobo drivers as well.

sounds like there might be traces of the AMD driver in your PC

 

download display driver uninstall and run the app to removed both AMD and nVidia driver

 

then try to install the drivers again

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Pretty sure. Before this I had a Radeon HD 7870, and unistalled the AMD drivers. Then I went on to Nvidia's website and downloaded the latest drivers for the GTX 970. I have all my mobo drivers as well.

Try DDU. Display driver uninstaller.

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Any way I could know that my PSU is causing it through other means than replacing it?

I don't really think so. You should borrow a good PSU and try running a game.

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sounds like there might be traces of the AMD driver in your PC

 

download display driver uninstall and run the app to removed both AMD and nVidia driver

 

then try to install the drivers again

So install AMD's display driver and uninstall it? As well as nvidia's, then reinstall nvidia's? Is that correct? 

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So install AMD's display driver and uninstall it? As well as nvidia's, then reinstall nvidia's? Is that correct? 

no download and run the program

 

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

it will help you remove all traces of the driver

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the pcu is just fine

No it's not. Very poor ambient temperature tolerance and low quality capacitors make it not fit for high-end GPUs. It might be the reason behind all of his issues.

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