GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW Underperforming

[Chasen6]

Hey,

I recieved my GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW card yesterday, but when I go to play any of my games: CSGO, DayZ, Arc, H1Z1, COD Black Ops 3. The card automatically puts the settings to medium/high or high/ultra. But I get terrible FPS.

3D MARK RESULTS:
https://gyazo.com/4f8e051c4397a7297cf1693b845f5449
https://gyazo.com/29948cd656465fc8ac58da82cc2031ff

*Not sure if I need to be specific to the companies of my PS and Ram, If needed, let me know*

PC SPECS:
CPU: i5 4430 3.00 GHz
PS: 550W
MB: Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW

I know my PS and my CPU aren't the best, but would that really effect my game play as much as it does?

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Which PSU is it? And you are bottlenecked.

 

[Chasen6]

Which PSU is it? And you are bottlenecked.

Corsair VX 550W PSU

and Im not good at the lingo, but bottlenecked means I dont have enough power?

 

[Alan Caldwell]

The processor is bottlenecking the performance. How old is the PSU?

 

[Chasen6]

The processor is bottlenecking the performance. How old is the PSU?

Im not too sure how old the PSU is because I had gotten it from a family friend. But I have seen others using a CPU with 3.6 GHz and they haven't had this problem. Is a 4.0 GHz CPU needed? The minimum req for the PSU for the 970 is 500W so I have been leaning to more of the PSU being the problem.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

If the processor is upgraded you will see a performance increase. But I have a doubt on your PSU.

 

[KillSwitch07]

The processor is bottlenecking the performance. How old is the PSU?

I have a i5-4430 with 2 gtx 970 in sli, even back when i had a single 970 the 4430 didnt bottleneck in anything except gta v. It could push 50-60 fps maxed at 1080p, i dont see how a i5-4430 could bottleneck a single 970 when it wont bottleneck sli 970's

 

[Wayfall]

How is his CPU bottlenecking his system while I have a i5 4460 which is only like 5-10% more powerful than his i5. My i5 handles my GTX 970 on ultra fine and the card can play 90% of my games 1080p 60fps.

The problem is that every single game in that list except for CSGO is very unoptimized. I have friends with i7 GTX 980TI's that cant play any of these games at a clean 60fps medium due to the rubbish performance.

CSGO on the other hand has some hardware problems still so you will need to look into bug fixing some of them.

Your system is totally fine, Alan Caldwell is talking codswallop.
Its the games to blame not your Hardware

 

[Alan Caldwell]

It will. I say in comparison to other processors.

 

[Chasen6]

Its just a piss off because I see others on youtube running these games on max or medium even and I just dropped a ton of money on this card and I am having no improvement from my GTX 460 SE.

 

[hdmark]

what resolution and framerate are you trying to hit? and do you have anti aliasing turned on?

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Try a better PSU. The processor will hold you back in certain cases. It is at 3GHz. Which resolution?

 

[Wayfall]

It will. I say in comparison to other processors.

And where is your evidence of this CPU being a bottleneck???

Haswell i5's can easily handle a GTX 970 and I certainly know from experience. How would you know as you only have dual core CPU currently, which can barely handle a GTX 970.

His system is perfectly fine!

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Don't start discriminating me. Coz I have a dual core, it doesn't mean idk about PCs. It is in CPU intensive games I say, compared to other processors like an i5 4690k. He needs a better PSU. That's all.

 

[Wayfall]

Try a better PSU. The processor will hold you back in certain cases. It is at 3GHz. Which resolution?

You are talking absolute rubbish, his CPU has above and beyond the requirements for the GTX 970.

Yes I will admit he may struggle in games that require an i7 such as the huge Assassins Creed games such as Unity and Witcher 3 and I know this as my CPU struggled at these but my system can handle so many games easily at 1080p 60fps such as

ALL of the Fallout games Ultra
Shadow of Mordor High (Ultra requires more than 4GB)
Team Fortress 2 Ultra
Dishonoured Ultra
Skyrim Ultra (shadows high)
Overwatch Ultra
Diablo 3 Ultra
Dota Ultra
Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain Ultra
Killing Floor 2 Ultra

And there are more but cant remember the names at the moment.

Your system is more capable than you think. Try games from this list and you will see how powerful yours system really is. I was amazed how smooth Overwatch's Beta was this weekend.

Your system is very very capable, pop an SSD in there and it will be even faster.

 

[Chasen6]

Well right now, I am playing CSGO and having FPS lag. Resolution is 1920x1080 and Anti Aliasing is automatically put at 8xMSAA and FXAA is Enabled. I have around 110 FPS in game but it flies all over the place, I have drops to 50 FPS and boosts to 300 FPS.

 

[Wayfall]

Don't start discriminating me. Coz I have a dual core, it doesn't mean idk about PCs. It is in CPU intensive games I say, compared to other processors like an i5 4690k. He needs a better PSU. That's all.

Only 3 months ago I had a cruddy CX 500w and it was gagging but it did not effect my system performance one bit. I did replace it with an EVGA PSU in the end.

 

[KillSwitch07]

Try a better PSU. The processor will hold you back in certain cases. It is at 3GHz. Which resolution?

You are talking absolute rubbish, his CPU has above and beyond the requirements for the GTX 970.

Yes I will admit he may struggle in games that require an i7 such as the huge Assassins Creed games such as Unity and Witcher 3 and I know this as my CPU struggled at these but my system can handle so many games easily at 1080p 60fps such as

ALL of the Fallout games Ultra
Shadow of Mordor High (Ultra requires more than 4GB)
Team Fortress 2 Ultra
Dishonoured Ultra
Skyrim Ultra (shadows high)
Overwatch Ultra
Diablo 3 Ultra
Dota Ultra
Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain Ultra
Killing Floor 2 Ultra

And there are more but cant remember the names at the moment.

Your system is more capable than you think. Try games from this list and you will see how powerful yours system really is. I was amazed how smooth Overwatch's Beta was this weekend.

Your system is very very capable, pop an SSD in there and it will be even faster.

As an owner of a i5-4430 with two gtx 970's in sli, i can completely agree with this, in most games my cpu usage is only at about 80%

 

[Chasen6]

So could we all say that a 700W PSU would be a benefit to me? Would there be a decent increase in performance or a small amount.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Try reducing Anti-Aliasing.

 

[Wayfall]

Well right now, I am playing CSGO and having FPS lag. Resolution is 1920x1080 and Anti Aliasing is automatically put at 8xMSAA and FXAA is Enabled. I have around 110 FPS in game but it flies all over the place, I have drops to 50 FPS and boosts to 300 FPS.

Do you have Multi Core Rendering enabled buddy?

I tried to get back into playing the game last month but I was still plagued by lag and stutter like I was on my old FM2 system.

They still have a lot to fix in that game.

 

[hdmark]

turn off anti aliasing completely , or drop to 2x at the most. turn off fxaa. then try. they take a HUGE toll on the system.

and no you dont need a 750w PSU. people run 970s off less than 500w just fine

 

[Alan Caldwell]

A Tier 1 or 2 PSU that is 550-650w is enough.

PSU tier list
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

[Chasen6]

I turned both off, I get 300 FPS but at times for like a second or two I have a drop to 30 FPS still. It is just enough to mess up gameplay. I will try turning everything to Medium

 

[CelicaGT]

Drivers? Full uninstall/wipe and latest?