Powercolor 7870 Ghz edition Performance?

Eric Richesson

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Hey, I just built my first pc with this card and might be having issues with it? See I was looking at some videos on youtube demonstrating the performance of the card from the Ghz too the Tahiti which I believe this card has since when I purchased it on newegg it advertised it, but no longer present on the page. Anyways I have been playing Bioshock infinite on all settings from ultra to low, and no matter what the card will fluctuate between 30-60, even to the late 20's on ultra. I can feel and see the frames drop. No matter from Ultra too Med it will flucuate, on low it will stabalize with 60 and yes Vsync is on and Ive tested it with it off, still even with Vsync on it will fluctuate on Med-Ultra. When playing tomb raider Ive dipped in the late 20's but averaged 40-60. See on the youtube videos of this card people are stating they are getting 50-70 FPS or even 80-100 with Vsync off, my card cannot achieve this performace and like I said this is my first PC build so I am new to pc gaming. Here are some other important spec of my machine 8 gigs, FX 8320. Am I doing something wrong? Could it be my processor holding it back or is my GPU possibly defective? Help/advice would be appreciated.
 

Dingleberg

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Sep 21, 2012
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Actually, I just recieved mine from newegg. I am having the same problem as you are. I have the 13.1 drivers and even in bioshock 1 I am getting frame drop in max settings with vsync. I really hope that there is a solution to this.