What happened to my GTX 970

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rockysealyjr

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I noticed that I was not able to run games like yesterday, yesterday I was playing high settings with my 970 on watch dogs, now I can only run 40 fps low settings. So I did a user benchmark and this is what I got. "Performing way below expectations (4th percentile)" And I also noticed the same thing with my CPU "Performing below expectations (35th percentile)" And I did a benchmark 3 days ago my CPU was "Preforming above expectations (66th percentile)" and the 970 was preforming as expected. Any ideas on why this happened and also any idea on how to fix?
 
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I would say lets start easy, Download a program like MSI Afterburner. Make sure the card is boosting up in clocks when you run a game. If not I would just download DDU---Google it, Then download the newest video card driver and reinstall and see if that fixes your issue.
 
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Have you checked your CPU and GPU card thermal sensor readings to see if something is running hot and being throttled?

Any chance one of your drivers got automatically updated and boofed the settings?

Did you happen to install new drivers or software since it was running well?

What are your full system specs including power supply model number?


http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/perform-clean-install-video-card-drivers.html
 
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3
CPU: i7 2600k @3.4 GHz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master EVO 212
GPU: GTX 970
Memory: 2x4 GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1600MHz
Storage: Samsung 2TB @5200RPM | Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
PSU: Corsair TX850


 
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Try my tutorial I linked to above, or, if you're familiar with using the Display driver uninstaller (DDU) then run that followed by a clean install of the Nvidia drivers.

That will at least give you a clean slate to start from knowing that drivers are not causing the issue. Sometimes Microshaft slips a driver update in silently that boofs things up.
 
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