Low fps with gtx 970?

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

Hello everyone,
So I recently purchased an Nvidia GTX 970 G1 Gaming edition. As the title suggests I haven't really seen much of an improvement since upgrading from my radeon hd7750. I am worried that I spent all that money for nothing. Is it maybe because it is a new card so games are not yet optimized for it? Either way the rest of my build is as follows...

MB: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350 @4.0Ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengence 8Gb (2x4gb) 1333Mhz
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 750w
Storage: 1TB HDD

 

[maxalge]

Hello everyone,
So I recently purchased an Nvidia GTX 970 G1 Gaming edition. As the title suggests I haven't really seen much of an improvement since upgrading from my radeon hd7750. I am worried that I spent all that money for nothing. Is it maybe because it is a new card so games are not yet optimized for it? Either way the rest of my build is as follows...

MB: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350 @4.0Ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengence 8Gb (2x4gb) 1333Mhz
PSU: Thermaltake TR750w
Storage: 1TB HDD

The difference should be massive.

Download valley and run it, post back with your score. It's free.

Make sure you set it to extreme HD preset.

https://unigine.com/products/valley/download/


Also you should get msi afterburner and check cpu/gpu temps while you do so.

 

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

Thanks for the response will have to do so later as I'm not home at this time but will post results later.

 

[ImDaBaron]

Has anybody asked about your PSU before?(Not related to your question just an observation)

 

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

Has anybody asked about your PSU before?(Not related to your question just an observation)

No I just thought that I should include it, why? Is there something wrong with it?

 

[ImDaBaron]

Has anybody asked about your PSU before?(Not related to your question just an observation)

No I just thought that I should include it, why? Is there something wrong with it?

It's pretty low quality

 

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

Hello everyone,
So I recently purchased an Nvidia GTX 970 G1 Gaming edition. As the title suggests I haven't really seen much of an improvement since upgrading from my radeon hd7750. I am worried that I spent all that money for nothing. Is it maybe because it is a new card so games are not yet optimized for it? Either way the rest of my build is as follows...

MB: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350 @4.0Ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengence 8Gb (2x4gb) 1333Mhz
PSU: Thermaltake TR750w
Storage: 1TB HDD

The difference should be massive.

Download valley and run it, post back with your score. It's free.

Make sure you set it to extreme HD preset.

https://unigine.com/products/valley/download/


Also you should get msi afterburner and check cpu/gpu temps while you do so.

Ok so I ran the program and on extreme hd I averaged around 50fps but it would dip as low as 30 in some areas and as for temp it seemed to balance around 55C

 

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

Has anybody asked about your PSU before?(Not related to your question just an observation)

No I just thought that I should include it, why? Is there something wrong with it?

It's pretty low quality

I went and double checked the box and I noticed it is a TR2 not just TR, I don't know if that makes a difference but thought you would wanna know.

 

[ImDaBaron]

Has anybody asked about your PSU before?(Not related to your question just an observation)

No I just thought that I should include it, why? Is there something wrong with it?

It's pretty low quality

I went and double checked the box and I noticed it is a TR2 not just TR, I don't know if that makes a difference but thought you would wanna know.

Nope it doesnt matter

 

[vxX Thunder Xxv]

So one thing i have noticed while gaming lately is that the 970 is barely using any power whilst gaming. I seem to never exceed 40% usage while playing and I'm wondering if that could be an issue if so it might be driver related?