GTX 970 Vastly Under Preforming

[Sharo7]

I have a problem. I bought this $300 graphics card for gaming and it is vastly under-preforming. I have 30-40 frames on CSGO with all low settings, 30 on BF1 with medium settings, 40 on Witcher 3 with low settings, and Overwatch is nearly unplayable at medium settings. What on earth is the problem? I've been researching for months trying to find the problem but to no avail. People are complaining about "under performance" on CSGO with 100+ FPS and 60 on BF1 with the 970.

Specs:
Intel i7 6700K
16GB DDR4 RAM
GTX 970 4GB

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

do you have something like MSI afterburner, or asus gpu tweak?

 

[Grugbug]

Is your monitor plugged into the proper port?
Are all of your system drivers up to date?

 

[Sharo7]

do you have something like MSI afterburner, or asus gpu tweak?

Stats according to Afterburner while playing Witcher 3:

GPU Usage: 40-90%
GPU Temp: 65 degrees Celsius
GPU Clock: 1328 MHz
Memory Clock: 3505 MHz

 

[Sharo7]

Is your monitor plugged into the proper port?
Are all of your system drivers up to date?

Both of my monitors are plugged into my GPU and I have the latest drivers.

 

[RobCrezz]

CPU temps when gaming?

 

[Grugbug]

What type of cable/ display are you using?

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

What type of cable/ display are you using?

bad fps wouldn't be the monitor.

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

CPU temps when gaming?

yep, the CPU may be throttling

 

[Grugbug]

What type of cable/ display are you using?

bad fps wouldn't be the monitor.

it can be the display. If he is using a tv as a display his display will limit his FPS.

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

What type of cable/ display are you using?

bad fps wouldn't be the monitor.

it can be the display. If he is using a tv as a display his display will limit his FPS.

what he sees, but not his fps.

 

[Sharo7]

CPU temps when gaming?

yep, the CPU may be throttling

CPU temps are very constant at 30-32 degrees Celsius

 

[madmatt30]

Those temps are either wrong or your cpu is running at low clocks (this would explain low fps)
What are the rest of your specs??

 

[Sharo7]

Those temps are either wrong or your cpu is running at low clocks (this would explain low fps)
What are the rest of your specs??

i7 6700K
16 GB RAM
GTX 970
MSI Z170A Motherboard

 

[RobCrezz]

CPU temps when gaming?

yep, the CPU may be throttling

CPU temps are very constant at 30-32 degrees Celsius

Even when gaming? Whats the clock speed showing? It should be getting much hotter than that even with the best cooler when under load.

It might be incorrectly throttling the speed to 800mhz. Ive seen this before where its stuck in low power state.

 

[Sharo7]

CPU temps when gaming?

yep, the CPU may be throttling

CPU temps are very constant at 30-32 degrees Celsius

Even when gaming? Whats the clock speed showing? It should be getting much hotter than that even with the best cooler when under load.

It might be incorrectly throttling the speed to 800mhz. Ive seen this before where its stuck in low power state.

http://imgur.com/a/kRP4s

That's what it's showing in Afterburner. In a separate program, it shows the loads on each core of the CPU to be from 70-90% when gaming but the temp never goes over 35.

 

[madmatt30]

Those temps are either wrong or your cpu is running at low clocks (this would explain low fps)
What are the rest of your specs??

i7 6700K
16 GB RAM
GTX 970
MSI Z170A Motherboard

z170a covers about 8 different boards mate,what model is it exactly??

AS stated I think youre runing low cpu clockds.

download hwmonitor

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

run it with sensors only,youll get a listing showing all cores & clock speeds

download intel burntest

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/intelburntest.html

start a test & watch your clocks in the hwmonitor display.

Take a grab while its running or let us know max clocks etc .

 

[RobCrezz]

CPU temps when gaming?

yep, the CPU may be throttling

CPU temps are very constant at 30-32 degrees Celsius

Even when gaming? Whats the clock speed showing? It should be getting much hotter than that even with the best cooler when under load.

It might be incorrectly throttling the speed to 800mhz. Ive seen this before where its stuck in low power state.

http://imgur.com/a/kRP4s

That's what it's showing in Afterburner. In a separate program, it shows the loads on each core of the CPU to be from 70-90% when gaming but the temp never goes over 35.

CPU, not GPU mate.

Need to see what the speed of the cpu is running at, and the temp.