MSI GTX970 Problems.

[Naheem]

Hey Guys,

So basically my MSI GTX 970 4G Gaming runs like crap. I game at 1600x900 (I know) and my average fps on ultra is considerably lower than benchmarks using reference cards at 1080p! Some 1440p benchmarks outperform mine with the same CPU (i5), heres an example:


http://imgur.com/a/pW7s7#1
GTX 970 @ 1080p
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This is literally my card and how it should perform on avg:
www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-970-gaming-review,13.html

So I was just wondering, do I have a defective card? Are Nvidia's drivers for 1600x900 absolute horse-shit (doubt that)? What do you think I should do?

 

[jake_larkee]

Did you make sure you completely removed all of the old drivers?

 

[Naheem]

Did you make sure you completely removed all of the old drivers?

Completely new install of Windows (new HDD) wiped everything from my old HDD, so there should be no other drivers messing with the Nvidia ones.

 

[jake_larkee]

What power supply do you have?

 

[Naheem]

What power supply do you have?

Corsair CX600 80Plus Bronze. Plenty of power for the 145w TDP of this card. I'm just updating all my drivers for everything else, maybe my BIOS drivers are throttling the card?

 

[jake_larkee]

What power supply do you have?

Corsair CX600 80Plus Bronze. Plenty of power for the 145w TDP of this card. I'm just updating all my drivers for everything else, maybe my BIOS drivers are throttling the card?

Yeah make sure the bios is up to date and that there's no throttling going on. Is there anyway you could try the card in a different computer? Then you could easily rule out if its your card or your computer causing the problem.

 

[Naheem]

What power supply do you have?

Corsair CX600 80Plus Bronze. Plenty of power for the 145w TDP of this card. I'm just updating all my drivers for everything else, maybe my BIOS drivers are throttling the card?

Yeah make sure the bios is up to date and that there's no throttling going on. Is there anyway you could try the card in a different computer? Then you could easily rule out if its your card or your computer causing the problem.

Not at the moment bud, I'd have to go see a friend, this build replaced my old pc :/

 

[Naheem]

Thanks for replying by the way, much appreciated!

 

[jake_larkee]

Thanks for replying by the way, much appreciated!

You're welcome, try a synthetic benchmark like unigine valley and use msi afterburner to monitor cpu and gpu usage then report back with your findings.

 

[Naheem]

Thanks for replying by the way, much appreciated!

You're welcome, try a synthetic benchmark like unigine valley and use msi afterburner to monitor cpu and gpu usage then report back with your findings.

Ok, I'll get on that right away

 

[Naheem]

Thanks for replying by the way, much appreciated!

You're welcome, try a synthetic benchmark like unigine valley and use msi afterburner to monitor cpu and gpu usage then report back with your findings.

Okie dokie, I've done the Unigine benchmark and everything is quite... underwhelming. Interesting thing I noticed; my GPU memory clock speed only hit 3505 Mhz.

Anyway the benchmark at 1600x900:

 

[jake_larkee]

While you were running the benchmark was your Gpu usage at 100%? What was the cpu usage as well?

 

[Naheem]

While you were running the benchmark was your Gpu usage at 100%? What was the cpu usage as well?

Here you go:

http://imgur.com/a/yh3D3#1

You'll want to view the images at full resolution by the way.

 

[cowboydude99]

What other components do you have?

What should your Heaven Benchmark be? I know for my 970 I hit 1590, but that is at 1080p.
My OC for that test was +200 core +250 mem.

 

[cowboydude99]

There is a new Nvidia driver. Download it from their website and install it. Test again.

 

[Naheem]

What other components do you have?

What should your Heaven Benchmark be? I know for my 970 I hit 1590, but that is at 1080p.
My OC for that test was +200 core +250 mem.

That's the problem, I don't have a reference benchmark for 900p ._. I haven't ran a Heaven benchmark yet, I'll get on it right now.

Specs:

CPU: i5 4670k @ 3.4Ghz - Stock cooler
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM 8GB @ 1866Mhz CL9
GPU: MSI GTX 970 4G Gaming
Mobo: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
PSU: Corsair CX600
HDD: #1 - WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
#2 - Seagate 500GB 7200RPM
Monitor: HP 2009V

I'll download the driver. (EDIT: cpu is 3.4Ghz)