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Long story short, I realized my GPU was in the wrong PCI-E slot. I switched it over, and now when I go into PerformanceTest 9.0, it is showing that I have two graphics cards connected to my Motherboard.

I've flashed the BIOS successfully, and it is still showing. Is there a better way to 'restart' my BIOS? Something else to try?

MB - ASUS M5A97 R2.0
GPU - GTX 970

Thanks.
 
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Yeah already tried resetting defaults. Didn't change anything.

As for performance, yes. I'm still only getting about 45-55% output from my GPU than I should be. Benchmark scored are scoring in the bottom 1% of 970s, no matter what benchmark software I use. GPU-Z is also showing that I'm only using ~50% load on the GPU during a benchmark.

 
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Try re-isntalling your GPU drivers? just pick 'clean install' from the installer software.

If that fails, uninstall the drivers completely (your desktop will look like crap afterwards), then reboot and re-install.
 
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Yes, I'm using that one now. It was initially placed in the other one since I didn't know what I was doing when I put together the PC...

CPU is an AMD FX-8320
 
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Yup. Windows 10 x64. Good idea to check the device manager...only showing one GTX 970, so could be just a display thing on the software program? I just don't remember seeing two graphics cards before I moved it.

I'm just stuck as to why this GPU isn't giving the performance it should.
 
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Gave the clean install a shot, and no go...if nothing else is working I can give the full uninstall/reinstall a shot...
 
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Why don't you download PassMark Performance test and run all of the various tests. It is free for 30 days, but you can still use it after that. Then go to PassMark's site and compare the CPU results to the averages. You may be a bit lower because some people overclock to get the highest possible score.

Edit: Maybe you already have PassMark Performance test installed, as I see you made mention of Performance Test in your first post.
 
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.. assuming your have an onboard graphics card on your cpu - completely remove your new card from the PC. then uninstall the drivers. you may have 2 sets to uninstall.

then one everything is uninstalled, put the card back in (the correct slot) and install drivers.
 
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I am pretty sure his FX CPU doesn't have onboard graphics. My FX 6300 does not. And it looks like his motherboard does not either. But I think he could still uninstall the drivers for the GPU, relying on the generic Windows driver until the correct driver is re-installed.
 
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Yup, already using that as one of my benchmarks, and how I realized that this may be the reason that I'm getting low performance. I'm testing in the top 75% of OVERALL benchmarks, but when I go to specifically the 970 graphics marks, I'm in the bottom 1% of scores...

 
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Is your CPU benchmark score good? Do you have the latest BIOS update available for the motherboard? Apart from the benchmark giving a bad score for your GPU, how does it actually perform in games or whatever you use the computer for? Could be that Passmark is giving you a faulty result. Have you tried Furmark? Did you try to completely uninstall and reinstall the GPU drivers as suggested above?
 
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AWESOME! Thanks a ton for this script. Worked great, and upon running this and reinstalling drivers, only one graphics card is showing up.



You can find my benchmark scores here. 3D graphics mark just skyrocketed after running that script and reinstalling. Still a bit under the 'average' for GTX970 according to PassMark, but still way higher than what I was getting before.

However, it does look like the original issue (detecting two graphics cards) is fixed.

As for your comments on performance ratings, it was scoring low across all benchmarks that I had performed. In-game it is doing well, but not as well as it should be. For example, even when playing a game like Rocket League, there will be full games where my FPS is sitting in the mid 50s. GTX 970 should be hitting 144+ constantly. Since this is my first custom built PC, I was so happy with the bump in performance initially, but after a while realized that I just wasn't getting the output that I should in games. Figured if I paid for a 970, might as well be using it all...
 
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