fuarrkmaan :
t99 :
do you have AA on and if so what setting. that is probably the best card without going towards the 300$ range. I got it with a much slower dual core i-3 and run watch dogs on ultra with AA turned down some.
Low settings, no AA, no motion blur, 1280x720 resolution. Would it be possible that my CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? I also have G-Skill RipjawsX 8gb ram (2x4gb), 1tb Western Digital HDD 7200rpm & a Gigabyte H87 D3H 1150 motherboard. If any of them could be the problem I'd like to know. Thanks for the reply.
It's not a bottleneck because I have the same card (msi non OC) and run games fine and much slower processor. I haven't played bf4 yet on this cpu. below is bf4 benchmark from 270 / 270x and you should be getting at least 50fps on high settings 1080p. Maybe its the patch mentioned earlier? Do you have vsync on and what refresh rate is your monitor. if vsync is on are the settings in display settings set for max refresh rate? vsync is weird with the frame rate, its suppose to even out the frames with the refresh rate and caps it at the displays refresh rate to get rid of tearing. I notice though if I turn vsync off in lets say watchdogs which I just did this a little while ago getting 70+fps in 720p and with vsync on it wouldn't consistently stay at 60, it was mid 50's. I noticed this is other games that it seems like the vsync uses a lot more power to have it on. so even if you get 80fps without it and your monitor may refresh at 60 which vsync would then cap fps at 60 you might not even reach that many because the vsync uses more power making the fps actually a bit lower than 60.
If vsync is off then there is something else definitely wrong somewhere. another thing you can try is 3d mark test and see what score you are getting in comparison. If you are a nice bit below 5k on the firestrike test then there is a big issue somewhere.