Bottleneck driving me crazy!

[Anonymousfox]

Hey Guys,

So today I wanted to speak about my bottlenecking, simply because it is driving me crazy, I have upgraded GPU, CPU, RAM, Motherboard, HDD, in the past, most recently I got some new RAM and a GTX 970, and it cannot run anything at all and it's making me feel like crap because I'm spending all this money for entertainment and I can't run anything.

So I wanted to come over here for some help, because at this rate, I won't be gaming anymore at the end of the month.

If this narrow's down the problem a little, I recently crashed because of a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, which is a driver issue, but it isn't my GPU Driver.

Random info that might help:

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 970
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13C2&SUBSYS_31601462&REV_A1
Display Memory: 8072 MB
Dedicated Memory: 4007 MB
Shared Memory: 4064 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: 227E4LH
Monitor Id: PHLC0AC
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: HDMI


Time of this report: 2/1/2016, 19:18:30
Machine name: DESKTOP-3PAEKDG
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10586) (10586.th2_release.160104-1513)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: 1201
Processor: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G (4 CPUs), ~3.9GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8130MB RAM
Page File: 2805MB used, 7244MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DxDiag Version: 10.00.10586.0000 64bit Unicode

 

[andy_Man]

Anything overclocked? If it is, undo it for now. Run memtest. Bad memory is pretty high up there on the cause for blue screens. Drivers can cause them also. When was the last time you did a fresh OS install? Did you do a fresh install when you changed cpu/motherboard? Did you update drivers when you installed the gtx 970?

 

[yoji]

and you talk about "bottleneck".. so what do you say is the bottleneck? and why?
When you say "it cannot run anything".. what do you mean? you mean it crashes (though you only mention it crashed once)? or it runs, but not to your expectations?
So how about less subjective talk.. and how about some details on performance? e.g game X runs at y FPS when I on Z settings?
Cheers

 

[sizzling]

What games, what resolution and what is your gpu & CPU usage in the games you are having problems with? My guess would be your CPU as its not the strongest but you need to monitor usages to work out exactly what is holding you back

 

[Anonymousfox]

Anything overclocked? If it is, undo it for now. Run memtest. Bad memory is pretty high up there on the cause for blue screens. Drivers can cause them also. When was the last time you did a fresh OS install? Did you do a fresh install when you changed cpu/motherboard? Did you update drivers when you installed the gtx 970?

Reset less than a week ago, updated GPU Driver's and everything else I knew,

 

[Anonymousfox]

and you talk about "bottleneck".. so what do you say is the bottleneck? and why?
When you say "it cannot run anything".. what do you mean? you mean it crashes (though you only mention it crashed once)? or it runs, but not to your expectations?
So how about less subjective talk.. and how about some details on performance? e.g game X runs at y FPS when I on Z settings?
Cheers

Honestly, a 970 should perform better than it does and that is clear, I cannot run Warframe, for example, on 60fps constantly, unless i'm on the ship, I cannot run GTA V, I can only get 60 fps if everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is on low, I can run MOST singleplayer games, I am able to run six siege, however last time I checked I couldn't run shadow of morder above med, you get the idea.. however crashes rarely occur.

 

[Anonymousfox]

What games, what resolution and what is your gpu & CPU usage in the games you are having problems with? My guess would be your CPU as its not the strongest but you need to monitor usages to work out exactly what is holding you back

I see, is there a program that will record this for me? or do you have an idea on what I could do etc, for your what games resolution question, refer to the reply I send yoji.