r9 290 pc scoring too low in firestrike and 'low' fps ?

OGrabMe

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Hi guys, im new in here, i have read a lot in here, but always found the answers, so never needed to post... But now i need help,
I build a new pc just before christmas as the one i had was starting to struggle.
But somehow i cant wrap my head around my scores and performance in firestrike and various games, I think they should be higher, i may be wrong tho.

In firestrike on the 'standard' run i get just over 8100 points...
In the same 3d mark run i get 110000 in Ice Storm and 19800 in cloud gate.

In metro 2033 benchmark i get avg 71 fps with all effects on max, in 1920x1080 without adv physx.

Dayz standalone (Pre alpha) i can barely run... it jumps between 10 and 50 fps (if i look into the sky 100+) no matter the gfx settings ?
I know its a pre alpha, but seems fishy

My rig consists of:

Gigabyte ga-970a-ud3
Amd fx 8320 overclocked to 4.5 ghz
16 gb ddr3 1600 mhz (4 sticks of 4gb) (only running 1333mhz?, Maybe 2 of the sticks are 1333 and the other 2 are 1600)
xfx r9 290 - stock speeds and cooler
kingston ssdnow 128gb ssd
2 x 500 sata drives for storage and games,
Seasonic m12II 750w 80+ copper psu
cooling on the cpu is a antec h20 620 i have modded to a open water loop.
and i run windows 8.1 64 bit

Temps on the pc are
Gpu: idle 40 Load 86 like
Cpu: idle 14-25 load ~55

If any of you bright minds have any ideas, or knows something i dont, please chime in...

And btw. Hi from Denmark, im Tom :)


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Extasis

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It's even worse for me. On the unigine valley on extreme hd preset i got a score of 539... fps 12.9 min=8 max 24.4. I also have a r9 290 but i have a intel i5 2500k 4.6ghz oc and i can't for the life of me understand what's wrong... I avhe no idea what so ever. even playing bf4 on ultra i get barley over 50 but most pf the time i get around 45... looking at other peoples videos and they get 90+ no problems... Feel tricked. But I'll keep searching. Sorry for not answering but i just wanted to it with you.
 

Milhouse2sk8

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Funny story, I have the same mobo an 8350 but only a 660, though I too get oddly low scores on benchmarks. Ive also noticed any kind of over clock does nothing. Im thinking that mobo may just suck for serious use. Im really curious because I am about to either upgrade to a sabertooth and cf 290x's or switch to a 4770k but only get 1 new card. I want to start a 4k build.
 

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Just gonna start out with saying that your score is perfectly normal and i have pretty much the exact same so there is no issue. I fixed my problem by simply update the drivers correctly...
 
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