I bought a 7970 a few days ago to replace my 6870, as Skyrim was running horribly in my system, and I figured it was time for an upgrade. Problem is, Skyrim still runs horribly. In cities it slows down to 20fps. My GPU is barely working at all, and my 1090T stays at around 30% use in these outside areas. I can't figure out what the problem is. I don't think it should be bottlenecking the system, as the CPU is fast. Shogun 2 runs very nicely with no bottleneck. Can someone explain this? Should I return the card and pick up a 2600k, and revert to my 6870? I'm at a loss here.