Hi all,
I have recently upgraded my old 770 to a brand spanking new 1070 (Gigabyte edition), but I'm not entirely happy with its performance and was wondering whether my expectations were too high or might there be an issue with the card.
Firstly, the FPS - the most graphically demanding games I have are The Witcher 3 & Forza 4. I was expecting the former to maintain stable 60fps at ultra (I use 60hz 1080p monitor) and around 50+ on the latter. In reality TW3 shows between 50-60 and sometimes dips to 30-ish with hairworks switched off. Forza maintained low 40s. Is this reasonable? I don't think my 16GB of ram or i7 4770 would be bottle-necking.
Secondly, at random intervals, for a very brief period of time I get black screen, as if the monitor lost the connection with the graphics card. That only happens to me a few times and each time it was while in desktop, so no load going through the card.
Lastly, at full load, the card gets really noisy with a buzzing sound. It's not the fans, as I manually switched them to full rpm when in desktop and there was no sound, it only appears under gaming stress.
Also, I've done all the basic checks, like driver update, ensure the card sits fully in PCI slot and power connectors were inserted fully etc.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
I have recently upgraded my old 770 to a brand spanking new 1070 (Gigabyte edition), but I'm not entirely happy with its performance and was wondering whether my expectations were too high or might there be an issue with the card.
Firstly, the FPS - the most graphically demanding games I have are The Witcher 3 & Forza 4. I was expecting the former to maintain stable 60fps at ultra (I use 60hz 1080p monitor) and around 50+ on the latter. In reality TW3 shows between 50-60 and sometimes dips to 30-ish with hairworks switched off. Forza maintained low 40s. Is this reasonable? I don't think my 16GB of ram or i7 4770 would be bottle-necking.
Secondly, at random intervals, for a very brief period of time I get black screen, as if the monitor lost the connection with the graphics card. That only happens to me a few times and each time it was while in desktop, so no load going through the card.
Lastly, at full load, the card gets really noisy with a buzzing sound. It's not the fans, as I manually switched them to full rpm when in desktop and there was no sound, it only appears under gaming stress.
Also, I've done all the basic checks, like driver update, ensure the card sits fully in PCI slot and power connectors were inserted fully etc.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
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