GTX 960 crashing and getting low frames in battlefield 4

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I recently upgraded from my R9 280 to a GTX 960 and initially was very pleased with it over my old card which was only achieving barely 40 frames on high settings in battlefield 4. But Recently my card has begun crashing and achieving very low frame rates in bf4 with all high settings and no AA.
My specs:
AMD FX6350 3.5Ghz Overclocked to 4.3 Ghz
8GB of DDR3 Corsair Vengeance RAM
600 Watt Corsair PSU
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
Windows 8.1 64 bit
By comparison my friend who is running two 660s in SLI with relatively the same setup and he always achieves around 20 frames higher that\n me.I am beginning to think that my relatively cheap motherboard may be the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

Jomari Gonzales

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2 660s in SLI will get better frames than a 960. if youre experiencing crashes and fps drops it might be an issue with temps, check your gpu temps while playing, if it exceeds 80c then you got a problem with the GPU
 

DSimo14545

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My GPU never exceeds 60 degrees and it should preform on par with two 660s considering its three generations older
 

Jomari Gonzales

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well there are some games that are well optimized using SLI profiles, so 660 SLI would perform a bit faster than a single 960 on those instances.

i totally would agree that 960 will be a better option in case someone would argue with me here.

how about your CPU temps? i believe BF4 also has a big hit on CPU usage