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I just recently got an Nvidia 1070 Gigabyte G1 Gaming and i run a couple of tests on userbenchmark and firestrike and i find that my graphics card seems to be underperforming compared to everyone elses.

Userbenchmark says my graphics card performs at the 13th percentile which is extremely low.

While firestrike says my score is at 12k while others average about 14k.

I am getting concerned now that i may have made a mistake somewhere or something, you can see my rig, including my firestrike score here: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13627991

And my userbenchmark here: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/1419347

I didnt OC my Graphics Card, its at 1600 clock speed, i didnt OC my Processor either and i had Firestrike on an HDD and not SSD.

Am i doing something wrong? Why are similar rigs to mine performing better? Is there something hidden or some weird configuration that i must mess with to bring my PC up to par with others?

I apologize if this is a duplicate thread.

I thought i made the correct choice buying a 1070.
 
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Yes. In your first picture your CPU temperature is wayyy too hot. 95C?? Anything above 80C is too hot. Check your CPU cooler, is the fan spinning? Is it secured properly? Did the person who built this PC use thermal paste and apply it properly?

And in the second picture your GPU is pretty warm. 79C isn't "too hot" for a GPU but I have never seen my 1070 go over 71C so the fact that you're at 79C with 3 fans vs my 2 fans is kind of alarming.. What kind of case do you have and how many case fans?
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If you look through other results you'll see that most people in the higher tier have OC'd GPUs and processors. Take this guy for example that scored 14451: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13627991 His GPU was 100Mhz higher clocked and his CPU was OC'd to 4.5Ghz.

Don't worry about the score that much though, the difference between you and him on the combined test was 2.5FPS. Synthetic benchmarks are just that, synthetic. Real-world performance is all that matters in the end.
 
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Here is my score with a very similar rig: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9257376

Your CPU is a little better but mine is overclocked to 4.2GHz so your physics score makes sense. 1600MHz core clock on the 1070 does not sound right though, my MSI is at 1923MHz (until it heats up then it throttles down to 1873MHz which is what the benchmark shows) and I haven't touched the clock settings, it's bone stock brand new. And that Gigabyte you have should be right in that range too, which driver version do you have?

EDIT: Nevermind, just looked at your benchmark and your core clock is 1911MHz. I'd agree with @timeconsumer. I could run 3DMark11 twice within 5 minutes of each other without changing any settings and I would still get fairly different scores.
 
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2000 points does not represent 100mhz in OC though I wouldn't have thought (or does it?). I too have got frustrated with people with +10mhz scoring supposedly 1k points more than me for no obvious reason.

But I agree with timeconsumer....although I wouldn't use the word 'synthetic' as it is still 3D graphics pushing the GPU (like a game would), it is all about how your rig performs in the games you want to play.
 
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I run the userbenchmark test 3 times in a row and all 3 times my GPU was at a ridiculously low percentile, around 13th always, thats why i am concerned, and you got about 1k higher graphics score despite us having the same card and you didnt OC yours either, i also looked at some other benchmarks online with peoples stock cards and the card is supposed to get around 18k graphics score, not 17k like mine gets.
 
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look at the evga link above and see how that drdeath guy had lower scores in the 3 tests but scored higher then the op did ?? just to start [with a so called lesser 900 card at that]

then the physic test is all cpu so if yours cant do a good job there then your score is lower has nothing to do with gpu , right ??
 
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How do i check those?

About temps, the guy who built my PC knows about that stuff, so he shouldnt have made a mistake with the temperatures, i pick all the components (cpu, gpu) and he installs them and makes sure they run fine without any overheating as well.
 
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Doesn't matter how well he knows his stuff, everybody makes mistakes. I've built dozens of PC's and still make mistakes every once in a while. Download MSI Afterburner and enable On-Screen-Display. This is a bit of a process if you haven't done it before. YouTube and Google can help.



Mine has been pretty good, the only thing I've noticed is that in one game I own (Trials Fusion) it will occasionally hang at ~1.5GHz for a couple seconds. Most of the time the game only needs about 800MHz but sometimes it will shoot up to 1.5GHz for some reason.
 
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Yes. In your first picture your CPU temperature is wayyy too hot. 95C?? Anything above 80C is too hot. Check your CPU cooler, is the fan spinning? Is it secured properly? Did the person who built this PC use thermal paste and apply it properly?

And in the second picture your GPU is pretty warm. 79C isn't "too hot" for a GPU but I have never seen my 1070 go over 71C so the fact that you're at 79C with 3 fans vs my 2 fans is kind of alarming.. What kind of case do you have and how many case fans?
 
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Thanks, im gonna call him the next morning and tear him a new one and tell him to get off his arse and fix my computers cooling.

Is there a component i should be looking into? Ive personally never looked into cooling stuff.]

My case is a Corsair Carbide 600C as for case fans im not sure, i can hear them though which is quite annoying.
 
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Depends what your existing CPU cooler is. If it's OEM I'd say you should probably look into a high quality air cooler. Something like a Hyper 212 EVO or Noctua NH-D15. But if you already have a decent air cooler (not OEM) then it was most likely installed incorrectly. 95C is too high even for an OEM cooler. Your CPU was probably thermal throttling which will bring your benchmark scores down.

As for the 1070...I don't know why it is that hot, could just be high ambient temp within the case from your CPU.
 
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Bad airflow on a corsair carbide 600c? I bought that case to make sure bad airflow never happens.
 
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Didn't see your edit. If you have functional case fans then that is not the issue. Probably high ambient temp from CPU.
 
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cooling affects the NVidia boost 3.0 gpu cooler temps + stable power = higher gpu boost - may want to try to cool things off a bit .

as far as your card mat need to set up custom fan profiles to control them temps of the card

matbe check fan settings of your cpu as well or may need to reset the cooler with fresh paste as well ?? that 94c is too high for thatr chip under this test so throttling maybe happening max I think on haswell is 100c

 
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