Gtx 970 Firestrike scores are low

[C418]

So I just recently received a gtx 970 and I ran it through Firestrike to see what score it would get. Well it wasn't pretty. If you look at other people's results you will see that most of them are at least over 10,000. But mine only got 8,000, which is worse than the 780, I think.
I'm very disappointed. I don't know what could be causing this. There shouldn't be any bottlenecks, THAT BAD at least. I'll post my specs at the bottom. Is my card defective? Did I just get the bad one out of the bunch?
But there's no coil whine like others have noted, surprisingly.
I should also note that before I made a custom fan profile in MSI afterburner, my idle temps were 50-60c and the load temps were 80c.
It's not due to thermal throttling though, the temps never go over 70 now.
I know it's the card for sure, unless a different part is for some reason limiting it.
According to other peoples scores an intel core i5 2500k gets a physics score of 7970 in Firestrike, and with that CPU the gtx 970 gets a graphics score of 13733. Total score is 10,687
My FX 8350 gets a physics score of 8,295and my GPU gets a graphics score of 11,108 which is about 2,000 under. Total score is 8,439.
Any helpful info would be appreciated, thanks.
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.3 Ghz
GPU: EVGA GTX 970 super clocked ACX 2.0
RAM:14gb 1700 MHz
Motherboard: MSI 970a g46
PSU: Corsair GS 600
Case: Apevia X Dreamer 4
My fire strike score:www.3dmark.com/3dm/4572500
Other fire strike score:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4090282

 

[Mun0425]

okay so I have had an issue like this before. I mean if it isnt a graphics card issue, then there could be a number of different things happening. How old is your psu and have you ever overclocked your 970.

 

[Michael Tinervin]

okay so I have had an issue like this before. I mean if it isnt a graphics card issue, then there could be a number of different things happening. How old is your psu and have you ever overclocked your 970.

My PSU was bought at the same time as the 970, Its a EVGA 1000GQ. And no I've never tried to OC the 970. I figured if the card is getting really bad performance, then OC would get better performance but that wouldn't fix the issue, just mask it. I need to fix the underlying issue before I can start to really up the card. I think I have a bad card. My old 760 gets around 1000 on Heaven, it shouldn't beat this new 970 ftw+. No way that should ever happen.

I wish I could post a pic of my heaven scores. How would I go about doing that?