Possible performance issues with my Gtx 1070 ASUS card

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crazytlingit

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My son's custom computer build:
i5 4570
ASUS m87z motherboard
ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 TURBO-GTX1070-8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
16gb of Corsair vengeance ram + 4gb of standard corsair ram = 20 total
EVGA 550 GS Gold PSU
Standard harddrive

I'm thinking that his system isn't running at optimal performance, the asus was a complete upgrade over the EVGA gtx 960 we had before and now we are able to run Crysis 3 and Metro at the highest settings with no framerate drops below 35. But this is where I get confused, the frame rate stays between 35-55ish at the highest settings (completely playable), and from the reviews I've read it has benchmarks for these games pushing averages in the 80-100 fps at the highest settings.

I also would run 3dMark Fire Strike test and it would average 11,000 not overclocked and 12,500 overclocked, which would put it above a 970 by over 3000-4000 points, but below a gtx 980 or titan? I thought this card was supposed to be more powerful than a 980?

I know my son's system isn't the ultimate build, a medium build at best, but is his system possibly bottle necking somewhere?

I've had issues in the past getting too hasty with my overclocking and crashed my Nvidia driver and I had to re-install it to get my performance up, does anyone else do this?

Thanks, any advice on what I can to do to optimize the computer would be helpful. I'm very new to building computers, but it's becoming addicting and fun.
 
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DRAM may well not be optimal since you have mixed sticks - what are the model #s of the DRAM and what are they running at (can find this in the free app CPU-Z in the memory tab what freq and timings?). Do you have the latest nVidia drivers for the card or are you using those that came on a disk with the card? Do you have the latest BIOS and mobo drivers for the Z87M
 
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I know for certain that I have these (at work right now)
Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

The other set is just 4gb of corsair ram with the same specifications but just not all fancy looking like the Vengeance Blue ones. Where when I performed my graphic tests it showed them to have the same specifications.

I did read that crossing ram can have an effect, do you think I should take them out? 16 gb is well more than enough from what I've been reading.
 
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I know I have the latest drivers for my graphics card from the nvidia website and the geoforce experience tool I use on the computer, but the others you mention I don't know, but I'll look into it.
 
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It's not setting, it's position of RAM memory sticks in their DIMM's, so how is it look like?
Do you have all 4 spaces filled with sticks?
I read up that you have 2x8 + 1x4 GB sticks.
 
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crazytlingit

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Yes, all 4 sticks are in the mother board, with the 2x8 sticks being the primary set. They are offset and from my knowledge are installed in the correct order.
 
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I just ended up taking out the memory, the number system for them was different and the other sticks were crucial memory, I just figured that 16gb was enough and those extra 4gb were probably not doing much.

I looked into how to install the BIOS drivers, seems kind of risky? Seemed fairly straight forward but there is some risk to brick your motherboard if you don't do it correctly.
 
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On another note, I've been playing around with GPU tweak, EVGA PrecisionX, and MSI afterburner to gauge my fps readings. I immediately preferred MSI afterburner and PrecisionX, but with those 2 utilities showed varying results for my games, where EVGA showed way lower fps (35-50 on ultra settings), and that was what I started to worry about, because the games did seem to be running fine. And MSI afterburner fps readings were off the charts (45-120) and the readings would lock to 60 pretty much when I turned on vsync. Does anyone else experience this?
 
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I've found out what has been going on, where I was interpenetrating the score results wrong and the EVGA precisionX utility was not running properly (Not using it anymore). The physics score was bringing down my score some, where I didn't realize that was dependent on my processor, but my graphics score is higher or on par with any system out there. So now that I'm running MSI afterburner I get a better analysis of the performance and I now understand what all those scores mean in the 3dMark benchmark tests.
 
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