Brand new gigabyte g1 gtx 970 doesnt feel like its performing correctly.

shannan

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Hi all,
Today I bought a brand new gigabyte G1 GTX970. (upgraded from my AMD Radeon HD 7950). Before installation I followed the usual steps and UN-installed my AMD drivers and restarted my pc with the new card in it. After downloading the Nvidia drivers, the gigabyte Bios and OC platform i noticed that the card hits maximum over clock instantly. (mind you I'm only playing CS:GO).
The card hits high clock speed and nearly maximum memory clock even when I'm on the lowest settings. ( hits around 150-240 fps and moves Alot) <-- much less than what i was getting with my old card with the exact same settings.

There is also an issue with the image, it seem somewhat blurred on words and isn't displaying crystal clear picture in game. the colouring seems off and also it feels like the game play is slowed down as if the enemy is .5 ms ahead of me. My CPU usage seems to be sitting around 25 percent and i even removed a stick of ram to allocate more CPU to the game.

I can feel something's not right, the card isn't operational like it should be. Is anyone out there able to shed some light on this matter? I would greatly appreciate your help. ( I'm so excited to use the new card properly!) Here are some pictures of my pc specs and some examples of what the card is doing. The in game photo doesn't do justice in my opinion.

http://imgur.com/ywLmPLw ---pc specs ( did take 1 4gb ram stick out )
http://imgur.com/J11veH0 ---GPU activity ( the 1300mhz is when i go in game)
http://imgur.com/oDXiz5R ---in game image ( it doesnt look this nice in game, lol.)
Heres an image of the blurriness I was talking about http://imgur.com/MnpdrdZ

thank you so much for your time

shannan
 

shannan

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yeah the same input as the 7950, it just seems the GPU is having to work harder to produce the images. specially cause CS is more of a CPU orrientated game so it doesnt make sense to me :(

 

shannan

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yeah I tried that a few times. i pretty much tried everything shy of reformatting. i have a feeling that my pc is bottle necking to my cpu. even if it was that doesnt explain why its spiking in mhz at a constant frame rate in a low gpu orientated game :S
also the picture flickers sort of like an old vcr.
im puzzled tbh. thanks for your time

 

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I was planning on upgrading my pc so i purhcased a new cpu and MOBO with some hope that maybe it was a compatibility issue. but im still getting flickering and the fps when i play counterstrike has not improved from my old card :S
 

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to run 200 fps on cs go on the lowest settings its running at 1270mhz. where as my old card ran a constant 250 fps with the old cpu and motherboard at i think 850 mhz. im so confused lol
 

shannan

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Howdy!
i had the card tested for 24 hours on a test platform and worked fine. I think it was just the difference card opperaton that i wasnt used to.
also the monitor flickering was solved by upgrading from dvi-i to a hdmi cable.

thanks for your help =D