Is my PC performing correctly?

[MechaTechie]

Hi,

I've built a gaming PC around 11 days ago with an i5 4460 and an ASUS GTX 970 Strix and when I play Assassin's Creed Unity or Blackflag around High settings my framerate fluctuates between 45 and 60 FPS (with V-sync on, without it I believe it goes a bit higher around 70s) according to MSI Afterburner, afterburner also shows the GPU usage getting to 99% and I've seen it reach 100% sometimes even if it's just for a fraction of a second so I don't think there's a bottleneck here. When I play the Battlefield 4 campaign at Ultra I get around 90 FPS (which I believe is normal). I know Ubisoft games haven't been very well optimized lately (specially Unity) but I've seen people with GTX 970s at stock (mine is also at stock) get better performance after the latest patches.My CPU temps stay around 55-60 degrees Celsius and my GPU around 60-70 degrees Celsius while playing so no thermal throttling.

Do you think there's something wrong with my system?

Thank you

 

[AxelCeee]

Both temps are nothing to worry about, I would check all updates, GPU drivers from Nvidia website up to date, get all windows updates as they are a crucial in anything. I would check to see if the GPU is connected all the way in the PCI-E slot and make sure sufficient wattage is going through. Both cables properly hooked. If you did all this, it might be the game, if it starts acting weird, like screen flashes or VGA/HDMI not working then it might be dead or is on the way to being so.