Poor Performance on 980

[JOSHBLY]

Hello, I have had my build for a year now, and for as long as I remember, the graphics performance has been off. I have issues running games like GTA V on single player at a consistent 60 fps, many games that shouldn't struggle, like Mafia 2 are still causing significant loss.

Build:
4690k
WD 1TB 7200RPM
16 GB DDR3 RAM
ZOTAC Amp! Edition 980

My Temps are all below average, my CPU is OC'd to 4.3 Ghz, my GPU is OC'd to 1500mhz

 

[James Mason]

Well, "unstable" OCs can cause inconsistent FPS.
Its possible your HDD is holding you back, as those are open world games.

You need to give us a range of what the FPS fluctuations you see are though.
It could be the PSU as well, if it provides inconsistent power to the GPU, that could explain the drops, what make and model PSU do you have?

 

[JOSHBLY]

Well, "unstable" OCs can cause inconsistent FPS.
Its possible your HDD is holding you back, as those are open world games.

You need to give us a range of what the FPS fluctuations you see are though.
It could be the PSU as well, if it provides inconsistent power to the GPU, that could explain the drops, what make and model PSU do you have?

I am using an 80+ Gold Seasonic 620W PSU. Originally, Afterburner stats showed that I was getting low frames to to my GPU usage only being around 60 percent, I increased my settings and the GPU was fully utilized, which increased my frames. My framer ate usually fluctuates around 40-60 on most games, even relatively old ones. However, I am worried my monitor is somehow causing issues because when I play games they simply do not look as smoothly as when I watch them on YouTube, for example.

 

[James Mason]

Your monitor could be an issue as well, what monitor do you have?

It's... possible it is bad drivers, so give the following a try, it may help, it may not.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download