Palit GTX 970 - Not performing well?

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I recently purchased a Palit GTX 970 Jetstream. The graphics card is not getting the FPS I have seen on other sites and benchmarks before purchasing. I am wondering if I got a bad card or whether there is a heavy bottleneck in my system.

GTA V runs 30-40 fps no matter what settings, sometimes dipping into 20's. AC syndicate runs at 40-50 FPS at high settings.

Coolermaster 500w PSU
FX - 6300
8Gb DDr3 Ram 800Mhz 1 Stick
Palit GTX 970 Jetstream 4Gb
1TB Hitachi HDD

Any help is appreciated.
 
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Looking at the CPU, FX - 6300 (6-Core 3.5 GHz (4.1 GHz Turbo)), it is actually not overly slow. You may want to consider putting in another stick of 8Gb DDr3 Ram 800Mhz Ram, as you only have one in already, and see if this helps. It could actually be a data timing problem which is causing your bottleneck. A few years back I too had only one stick of Ram in a computer, it was slow, and I was amazed at the performance increase by increasing it to 2 sticks.

I am not sure if upgrading your power supply will help, as modern graphics cards do require the big power supplies as they did in the past, and some other users only have 400w power supplies with this card.

Obviously, if you do decide to upgrade the processor, this will help.
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Looking at the CPU, FX - 6300 (6-Core 3.5 GHz (4.1 GHz Turbo)), it is actually not overly slow. You may want to consider putting in another stick of 8Gb DDr3 Ram 800Mhz Ram, as you only have one in already, and see if this helps. It could actually be a data timing problem which is causing your bottleneck. A few years back I too had only one stick of Ram in a computer, it was slow, and I was amazed at the performance increase by increasing it to 2 sticks.

I am not sure if upgrading your power supply will help, as modern graphics cards do require the big power supplies as they did in the past, and some other users only have 400w power supplies with this card.

Obviously, if you do decide to upgrade the processor, this will help.
 
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You can overclock your CPU though,it won't show any good difference in gaming performance when compared with FX 8350. Switching to Intel would be a good option.
BTW you are getting 30-40 frames in GTA V on any settings? that should not happen even if there is bottlenecking.

If you can,test your GPU in any other good system to make sure the card has no issues,but i'd definately change the PSU if it is a bad coolermaster unit.
 
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I have just ordered an FX-8320, Would this help me in the way of performance
 
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I reinstalled windows and to m prevail, I seem to get over 100 FPS now in black ops 3, compared to 50-60 with dips to 30. I am reinstalling GTA V now and Will post results soon.
 
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