GTX 980 Ti bottleneck, and lag spikes?

[Fazer]

Just recently upgraded from my GTX 770 to a GTX 980 Ti, and I have been getting huge fps lag spikes in every game I have played for example ill be playing bf4 and then every 30 seconds my fps will go from 90-100 to 30, and it'll stay at 30 for around 5-10 seconds. I don't know if it is because I got a bad gpu, or if it is a bottleneck creating the issue. I don't know much about computers so i'd appreciate the help!

Specs:

EVGA SC+ GTX 980 Ti

AMD FX-8350

ASRock 970 Extreme 4

Corsair Vengeance 16gb

XFX 850 Watt PSU (I don't know the exact model of it)

Windows 10

(Nothing is overclocked, all of it is @ stock)

 

[Gamer1985]

Your CPU could be creating a slight bottleneck. I dont see why it would drop that low though. Assuming your playing at 1440P with that FPS in BF4 I would definitely assume it is a bottleneck. What are your Temps when this happens? No thermal throttling occurring? When you upgraded your cards did you do a clean install of new drivers?

 

[Dunlop0078]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

 

[Fazer]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

Yes I did uninstall the drivers for my 770 and did a fresh install for the 980 Ti for the 364.51 drivers since the newest one didn't run very well.

 

[Fazer]

Your CPU could be creating a slight bottleneck. I dont see why it would drop that low though. Assuming your playing at 1440P with that FPS in BF4 I would definitely assume it is a bottleneck. What are your Temps when this happens? No thermal throttling occurring? When you upgraded your cards did you do a clean install of new drivers?

I am currently playing at 1080p, waiting to upgrade to a 4k monitor, and ill have to check my temperatures real quick, and yes I did do a clean install of drivers to the version 364.51

 

[Dunlop0078]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

Yes I did uninstall the drivers for my 770 and did a fresh install for the 980 Ti for the 364.51 drivers since the newest one didn't run very well.

What are cpu temps, gpu temps, cpu usage, and gpu usage when gaming in bf4? I want to see what happens when it drops to 30fps.

 

[Fazer]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

Yes I did uninstall the drivers for my 770 and did a fresh install for the 980 Ti for the 364.51 drivers since the newest one didn't run very well.

What are cpu temps, gpu temps, cpu usage, and gpu usage when gaming in bf4? I want to see what happens when it drops to 30fps.

Alright, hold on ill check right now

 

[Fazer]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

Yes I did uninstall the drivers for my 770 and did a fresh install for the 980 Ti for the 364.51 drivers since the newest one didn't run very well.

What are cpu temps, gpu temps, cpu usage, and gpu usage when gaming in bf4? I want to see what happens when it drops to 30fps.

My gpu is at 81 C but only at 50% usage, and my CPU was at about 70-80% usage and 70 degrees C

 

[Fazer]

A cpu bottleneck shouldn't cause anything like that especially in bf4, it generally works pretty well with AMD fx cpu's. Did you uninstall your drivers for the 770 and install the 980 ti drivers? I dont believe they are the same.

Yes I did uninstall the drivers for my 770 and did a fresh install for the 980 Ti for the 364.51 drivers since the newest one didn't run very well.

What are cpu temps, gpu temps, cpu usage, and gpu usage when gaming in bf4? I want to see what happens when it drops to 30fps.

Also for some reason I was only getting 50-60 fps on Ultra 1080p on a 64 player server which I found weird as well.