New graphics card lag issue

Niekjes

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Oct 18, 2015
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Hello,

I recently purchased the GeForce GTX 970 4G graphics card, ever since my games have begin stuttering in more "crowded" situations. Mass Effect 3, Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Assassin's Creed: Black Flag are some of the games I have issues with. These used to run fine on my old card. I upgraded from a Radeon 7850HD.
I already read several other posts about this issue, here's what I already tried:
1. Wiping old drivers.
- Initially I forgot to delete my old driver, so I had to do so after installing the new card. This still didn't help. I also deleted the Nvidia driver and reinstalled it, no effect. I used driver cleaner for this.
2. Changing settings in GeForce configuration.
- I changed several settings in the configuration panel under 3D settings (anti-aliasing, triple buffering)

My setup is:
Intel core i7-4470k(no overclock!)
16GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX 970
850Watt PSU(Antec, I know it's overkill and i'm getting a new one, my old one burned out and i borrowed this one from a friend)
Windows 7-64 bit
ASUS H81M-Plus motherboard.

I'd really appreciate some help, as I don't know that much about this stuff.

Edit:
Recently discovered my CPU is somehow overheating(up to 100 degrees celsius!), ran 3Dmark and graphics test has no problems running (solid 60-59 FPS). At physics test FPS drops as low to 15. Might this be the source of the problem?
 
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If the cpu is running at 100 degrees, it will throttle down the frequency to cool down, which will slow down performance. What cpu cooler do you have? Something is probably wrong with it.