Gigabyte GTX 1060 Severe Performance issue

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funnydude269

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Recently, I upgraded from a Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card to a Gigabyte GTX 1060 OC Edition. The card should arguably perform better. However, after installing the card my pc's performance drastically slowed down and games played terribly. Games like CS:GO and Dota 2 which should be easy for the card to handle would run at a choppy 60fps. I had a major downgrade in performance since the upgrade. I tried reinstalling the GPU and putting it in a new slot in my mobo but it had no luck. I'm assuming its not my CPU causing the problem as this is the same cpu I used with my 7970 and had no issues. I even tried factory resetting my PC and reinstalling the drivers but that didn't work. I'm not sure what the issue is. Any help is great.

BTW my specs are
Intel i5 3450 Ivy Bridge (stock cooler)
8GB Ram
Gigabyte GTX 1060 OC Edition
My motherboard is an Intel DP67BG.
 
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Download DDU and use it to uninstall the amd graphics drivers completely. Also update your motherboards BIOS and DRIVERS to the latest from the manufacturers website. THEN install the LATEST nvidia drivers and report back. Do the motherboard bios and drivers first!!!!! Then use DDU
 
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funnydude269

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Appreciate the quick response. I did what you said,and updated my bios. I had already completely wiped my AMD drivers previous to installing my Nvidia drivers, and they are up to date. There was a significant boost in performance however i still feel like the card isn't doing as well as it should. In Crysis 3, it stutters very frequently and has functions in fps from 20-60 and it is never steady. From what I can tell, it is not thermal throttoling and the the CPU is not even at 50% load so it's not being bottlenecked. The card itself reaches about 50% load during gameplay and has random peaks to 99% load. I'm not sure what this means. I was running Crysis on medium settings too, and I know the card can push more. Not sure why this is happening still but updating my bios helped
 
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funnydude269

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THANK YOU! My CPU was running at 90 degrees!!!! You just saved my ass. I plan on buying a third party cooler and thermal paste now.
You're a life saver
 
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azzazel_99

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Awesome man! A simple hyper 212 evo is a great cooler and really really cheap too. Also if you can look up how to adjust voltage on the cpu. Stock voltages are usually really high and can be lowered a good bit in the bios which will help with temps as well. My 6700k and 5820k both were REALLY high in the stock voltages. I tweaked them and lowered them in the bios to the lowest stable i could get and it lowered both of the cpu's by as much as 20 degrees
 
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