Surprisingly Low Heaven Benchmark Score (700s with GTX970) Help

[rojo9951]

Hello,
I am a computer noob, I bought a custom built computer from PC Specialist and didn't upgrade it for 2 years. I recently bought a Nvidia GTX 970 with Zotac Firestorm overclocking software. After replacing my 660ti with this new card I was quite content noticing a good increase in fps. However after running the Unigine Heaven Benchmark Test 4.0 I noticed my scores were significantly lower than others using the 970.

I guess what I'm asking is what could be affecting my system to result in such a low score and also what levels of overclocking I should use in the overclocking software if any. I'll attach my pc parts and an image of what the overclocking application UI looks like.

Thanks

Parts list
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2NzZhM

Zotac Firestorm
http://imgur.com/OTFzDdo

Edit: PC Specialist overclocked my CPU to "4.6GHz max"

 

[profoundnoah]

First, check windows power mode, as I once had an issue with that as well. Be sure it's set on balanced instead of power saver. Next if that doesn't work, disable your overclock with firestorm and try it without it. The Base Clock Should be 3.5Ghz, and there might have been an issue with the overclock. Keep me posted.

 

[rojo9951]

First, check windows power mode, as I once had an issue with that as well. Be sure it's set on balanced instead of power saver. Next if that doesn't work, disable your overclock with firestorm and try it without it. The Base Clock Should be 3.5Ghz, and there might have been an issue with the overclock. Keep me posted.

Windows power mode is set to balanced. Disabled the overclock on the GPU and scored a hilarious 666 on the heaven benchmark test. I don't know how to disable the overclock on the CPU as it was delivered pre-overclocked. Thanks for answering.

 

[profoundnoah]

No problem, apologies for the delay. Before you do anything, if your board offers overclocking profiles, save your current one as a profile in case this doesn't help. You should be able to reset everything to defaults in the BIOS, I'm not sure what brand your board is so I can't be sure on an exact guide. If you dont see any kind of button like that, you should be able to reset to base clock by following this guide and just plugging in the numbers for 3.5 Ghz. http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2103175/bios-overclocking-beginners.html

 

[rojo9951]

Ok thanks. I'll do that at the weekend and get back to you, I'm very busy with school at the moment. Just to be sure when I disable the overclocking on the CPU I am then to check for a better Heaven Benchmark score? If it is worse what then? What else could be the problem?