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Sifix82

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Hello,

I recently purchased an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW and have been getting some pretty sucky performance. I play League of Legends quite a lot, and have only been getting around 130 to 140 FPS on medium and dropping all the way down to 60 in fights. This is obviously pretty low for a not-so-demanding game. I also am receiving around 70 to 80 FPS on Battlefield 1 on high and around 150 on Minecraft. (Note Worthy: V-Sync is turned off on all of these games and I am playing at 1080p). I checked Heaven Benchmark and got a score of 2381 and an average FPS of 94.5. Any help is appreciated as this is really disappointing for a top of the line card. Thank you.

Specs:
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW Edition (Out of the box clock)
Intel I7 5820k @ 3.3 GHz
8 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX
EVGA Supernova Nex750B1
Gigabyte X99 UD4
Windows 10
(Most recent NVIDIA Drivers)
 
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So.... it could be the PSU. EVGA's Supernova PSUs are good, EXCEPT for the NEX series, which is kinda bad. (and hence cheap and that's why you don't cheap out on the PSU)
Not good performance can be PSU related.

But it could also be GPU related, so give the following a try to see if it improves things, if it does great, if not oh well we removed it as a solution:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)...
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1. You are aware of the defective design on the SC and FTW cards (1060, 1070, 1080) ?
https://www.techpowerup.com/227133/evga-gtx-1070-1080-overheating-issues-company-says-thermal-pads-a-solution

2. Expect a moderate performance (average) hit with the 5820k versus 6700k / 6600k

But if it' not caused by Item 1, I'd wanna fix it anyway ... check with EVGA to see if you got one of the affected units ... there are many unmodded units still in the channel. They will send you a thermal pad kit and it takes about an hour to install

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdn5r___1Iw

Otherwise, what are you using for RAM ? 4 x 2 GB ?



 
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Yes, I am somewhat aware with the defects of the card. However, I am not experiencing the overheating or the black screens, so perhaps that is not the issue unless I am mistaken? I also have 2x4 GB of ram.
 
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I don't have LoL or Battlefield 1 so I can't comment on those, however, I am familiar with the Heaven Benchmark. 1080p Extreme Tesselation, 8x AA, Ultra quality preset I got a score of 2300, aside from the video card, my system is a little faster than yours, 6700k@4.5/6 32Gb RAM2x16Gb, 15Gb usable, 17Gb RAMDisk 3200 CL 15. If I turn the tesselation down or off, I get around a 3200 score in Heaven, and FPS jumps measurably. Depending on individual settings, maybe your 1070 is performing near where it should. I have the 980ti, which should be close to the 1070, and I'm pretty moderately overclocked. I'll have to do some homework on LoL with a 1070 and Battlefield 1, but from the sounds of it, you might not be too far off from expected performance.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I definitely agree that the Heaven Benchmark was right on target, but I'm just seeing considerably worse performance in actual games compared to other systems and my previous 970.
 
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Doing some homework, and it sounds like LoL might actually be downclocking your card because the game isn't demanding enough. Got everything maxed out with LoL on a 144Hz monitor? V-Sync off in NCP global and in game/performance settings to high and all that normal stuff you have to go in and fix to get the best performance out of stuff that you bought because it's performance stuff? Just going through the checklist now...
 
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Unfortunately it is still barely pushing 144 in very little action moments with all of the settings turned up.
 
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I also recently downloaded MSI Afterburner and monitored League of Legends. Says my CPU is running on average at 18 percent and my GPU is running at around 30 percent. Is this normal or lower than expected? In addition, I ran a UserBenchmark test and it said both my CPU and RAM are significantly underperforming. Link: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/2409887 . Any Ideas?
 
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So.... it could be the PSU. EVGA's Supernova PSUs are good, EXCEPT for the NEX series, which is kinda bad. (and hence cheap and that's why you don't cheap out on the PSU)
Not good performance can be PSU related.

But it could also be GPU related, so give the following a try to see if it improves things, if it does great, if not oh well we removed it as a solution:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
 
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