I just bought a lot of new parts for a new build because my current one has been having a lot of issues ever since I put my new GTX 970 in it.
One guy offered the suggestion that there's a possibility that in games that are not very taxing (League of Legends, Dota 2, sometimes CSGO), the 970 struggles to understand whether it should be in full 3D Clock mode or just power down to the idle setting, therefore causing FPS decreases and other issues.
If that is not possible, would a restriction of power from a faulty power supply or motherboard result in unstable performance/fps, monitors turning black for ~15s at a time then snapping back, black graphical artifacting, etc. ?
My 970 ran Witcher 3 and GTA V very well with little hiccups, but ran League of Legends, Dota 2, and CSGO at incredibly subpar performance for the card's value (ran them WORSE than my 3-year old GTX 660). Any explanation for that?
I ran Prime95 and my CPU temps were fine under 100% load, ran Furmark and I had a constant 60+ fps with no stuttering and all that, but when I ran 3DMark 11 I got the following God awful scores:
Graphics Score: 5097
Physics Score: 6936
Total Score: 6332
GT1: 26.37
GT2: 25.23
GT3: 26.42
GT4: 15.37
PT: 22.02
CT: 29.45 (all in frames per second)
I asked around and for a GTX 970 those are absolutely terrible scores, but like I said I ran Witcher 3/GTA V on all ultra/some high settings, 1920x1080 with little to no problems so I have no clue if my card is faulty, or if it was in fact just a motherboard/power issue.
Edit: Forgot to mention my processor is a ~3 year old i5-3570k 3.4GHz
One guy offered the suggestion that there's a possibility that in games that are not very taxing (League of Legends, Dota 2, sometimes CSGO), the 970 struggles to understand whether it should be in full 3D Clock mode or just power down to the idle setting, therefore causing FPS decreases and other issues.
If that is not possible, would a restriction of power from a faulty power supply or motherboard result in unstable performance/fps, monitors turning black for ~15s at a time then snapping back, black graphical artifacting, etc. ?
My 970 ran Witcher 3 and GTA V very well with little hiccups, but ran League of Legends, Dota 2, and CSGO at incredibly subpar performance for the card's value (ran them WORSE than my 3-year old GTX 660). Any explanation for that?
I ran Prime95 and my CPU temps were fine under 100% load, ran Furmark and I had a constant 60+ fps with no stuttering and all that, but when I ran 3DMark 11 I got the following God awful scores:
Graphics Score: 5097
Physics Score: 6936
Total Score: 6332
GT1: 26.37
GT2: 25.23
GT3: 26.42
GT4: 15.37
PT: 22.02
CT: 29.45 (all in frames per second)
I asked around and for a GTX 970 those are absolutely terrible scores, but like I said I ran Witcher 3/GTA V on all ultra/some high settings, 1920x1080 with little to no problems so I have no clue if my card is faulty, or if it was in fact just a motherboard/power issue.
Edit: Forgot to mention my processor is a ~3 year old i5-3570k 3.4GHz