Horrible performance with GTX 970

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AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHZ 8 Core
EVGA nVidia Geforce GTX 970 4GB SC Gaming
16 GB Ram
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
Windows 10 Pro
CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0

I have been getting horrible performance with my GTX 970.

I get regular frame drops in games like Mirror's Edge Catalyst beta, Saints Row 2, Battlefield 4, and even friggin CoD MW2. What benchmarks do you guys want me to do to show how my PC performs? I am also running in high performance mode on my mobo.
 
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I don't believe either are really adequate for the 8350 wide open. However, some games might not...

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are you monitoring temps of the cpu and gpu?
 

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yeah you need to lower stuff like shadow distance and godrays, anything cpu intensive basically
 

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I am monitoring the GPU temps and it reaches like 60
 

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MW2 doesn't even have things like that so the can't be the whole issue.

 

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thats good



the cpu temps?
 

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42 degrees
 

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That was my idle temps sorry lemme see what they are under cinebench
 

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It reached a max of 64c and got a score of 604 in cinebench.
 


Stock cooler? That is hot for a FX. AMD's max temperature limit is 61C; anything over, it begins scaling back.

I believe heat may be your enemy here, either at the chip itself or at the motherboard's VRMs feeding the chip.
 

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I am using the Coolermaster TX3. I still got the stock cooler if that might work better.

 

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here is my hwmonitor
 


I don't believe either are really adequate for the 8350 wide open. However, some games might not run it up to that temperature.

Try disabling turbo boost or changing the multiplier down a little bit. You'll lose a little bit of performance, but if you don't heat things up too much, you may not throttle and stutter either.
 
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