i7 4970k gtx 970 FireStrike Score 2940

[Steppo]

Hi all,

I am desperate... I bought a new rig and this(click here) is how it is performing... something cant be right,,,

Browsed a bit an did a clean install on nvidia drivers (345.20), which often solves such issues.

You see the specs of my rig in the run details.

Any hint you can give me what is causing such a low score?

Additionally i get serious frame issues in games like WoW : WoD, FC4 and Shadow of Mordor. All of a sudden, there are big fps drops.

edit: ok so after benchmarking an monitoring my gpu, the problem seems to be that the power consumption seems to be very low when the framerate is bad lik 30-50% despite full load, can this be a problem?


Thanks in advance...

 

[clutchc]

The power supply can be the cause, yes. What is the make/model of yours?

 

[Steppo]

Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 550w, should be sufficient right? I heard about driver issues scaling the power usage too low

 

[clutchc]

Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 550w, should be sufficient right? I heard about driver issues scaling the power usage too low

That's a decent PSU. And Nvidia only requires a 500W PSU for that card: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970/specifications
Unless the card or PSU is defective, you shouldn't be having that horrible score... obviously. Do you have an old card that you can test with and see if the Firestrike score for that card is normal?

 

[Steppo]

Strange thing is, the power consumption is fluctuating, isnt there a way to force set power consumption via afterburner or soemthing ? Unfortunately I have no other card to test

 

[clutchc]

Strange thing is, the power consumption is fluctuating, isnt there a way to force set power consumption via afterburner or soemthing ? Unfortunately I have no other card to test

Fluctuating? Some fluctuation is normal due to the load on the card at any given moment. Sorry, I don't use Afterburner.
Unless you can come up with another card (any card) to test with, you have no way of knowing if it is the card or something else.

 

[Steppo]

ok so i think i solved my problem, i had to set power management in nvidia control panel to force maximum performance (was adaptive by default)

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6256662 now its over 10k had 75+% power consumption all the time

edit: damn it, shadow of morder power consump. is down again to 45%....fml