My son's custom computer build:
i5 4570
ASUS m87z motherboard
ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 TURBO-GTX1070-8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
16gb of Corsair vengeance ram + 4gb of standard corsair ram = 20 total
EVGA 550 GS Gold PSU
Standard harddrive
I'm thinking that his system isn't running at optimal performance, the asus was a complete upgrade over the EVGA gtx 960 we had before and now we are able to run Crysis 3 and Metro at the highest settings with no framerate drops below 35. But this is where I get confused, the frame rate stays between 35-55ish at the highest settings (completely playable), and from the reviews I've read it has benchmarks for these games pushing averages in the 80-100 fps at the highest settings.
I also would run 3dMark Fire Strike test and it would average 11,000 not overclocked and 12,500 overclocked, which would put it above a 970 by over 3000-4000 points, but below a gtx 980 or titan? I thought this card was supposed to be more powerful than a 980?
I know my son's system isn't the ultimate build, a medium build at best, but is his system possibly bottle necking somewhere?
I've had issues in the past getting too hasty with my overclocking and crashed my Nvidia driver and I had to re-install it to get my performance up, does anyone else do this?
Thanks, any advice on what I can to do to optimize the computer would be helpful. I'm very new to building computers, but it's becoming addicting and fun.
i5 4570
ASUS m87z motherboard
ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 TURBO-GTX1070-8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
16gb of Corsair vengeance ram + 4gb of standard corsair ram = 20 total
EVGA 550 GS Gold PSU
Standard harddrive
I'm thinking that his system isn't running at optimal performance, the asus was a complete upgrade over the EVGA gtx 960 we had before and now we are able to run Crysis 3 and Metro at the highest settings with no framerate drops below 35. But this is where I get confused, the frame rate stays between 35-55ish at the highest settings (completely playable), and from the reviews I've read it has benchmarks for these games pushing averages in the 80-100 fps at the highest settings.
I also would run 3dMark Fire Strike test and it would average 11,000 not overclocked and 12,500 overclocked, which would put it above a 970 by over 3000-4000 points, but below a gtx 980 or titan? I thought this card was supposed to be more powerful than a 980?
I know my son's system isn't the ultimate build, a medium build at best, but is his system possibly bottle necking somewhere?
I've had issues in the past getting too hasty with my overclocking and crashed my Nvidia driver and I had to re-install it to get my performance up, does anyone else do this?
Thanks, any advice on what I can to do to optimize the computer would be helpful. I'm very new to building computers, but it's becoming addicting and fun.