I'm not sure what I'm missing here. I recently got my hands on one of these cards and knew it was going to be a true force to be reckoned with. And for a while there, it was just that. Now, while playing Skyrim with the high res pack, I get jumpy frames 60fps-0fps; Yet my hardware isn't even trying! (the fan speed stays the same and the temp never rises) I'm confused why it's holding back! I've played Crysis 2-DX11 and Arkham City on full specs without a problem - why little DX10 Skyrim has low frames I'm baffled (despite Skyrim being vaster and more complex). I was going to save the benchmarking until I was able to finish my build off with 8 more gigs of ram and an SSD but the recent speedbump in gaming brought me to it early. I was astounded how low I was ranking, to say the least. >=( Furmark was the first and I'm about to try unigine and 3dmark and probably be twice as disappointed.
I was wondering how the numbers I've run into on every benchmark site were attained with slower clock speeds than I even have, when I haven't touched overclocking yet since I wasn't worried, until now! furmark put me at a score just over 2,000 (36FPS) >=(!!!
Hardware: (everything @ stock specifications)
i5 2500k @3.3(3.7turbo)GHz w/ a Zalman fan cooler
Asus P8Z68-V Pro mobo
Asus GTX 570 DCU2 (the beastly 3 slotter, yep!)
2-4GB corsair vengeance @ 9-9-9-24
1080W PS
playing on 1680x1050 monitor max resolution. or my 42" TV 1920x1080 (neither makes a performance difference. if so, it's not noticeable. I occasionally think my tv plays smoother with high frames than my monitor)
Edit: and yeah, my drivers are up to date, even specifically Nvidia's high res skyrim update. I wish it were that easy.
What am I doing wrong, that everyone else with this card blows my benchmarks completely away??
I was wondering how the numbers I've run into on every benchmark site were attained with slower clock speeds than I even have, when I haven't touched overclocking yet since I wasn't worried, until now! furmark put me at a score just over 2,000 (36FPS) >=(!!!
Hardware: (everything @ stock specifications)
i5 2500k @3.3(3.7turbo)GHz w/ a Zalman fan cooler
Asus P8Z68-V Pro mobo
Asus GTX 570 DCU2 (the beastly 3 slotter, yep!)
2-4GB corsair vengeance @ 9-9-9-24
1080W PS
playing on 1680x1050 monitor max resolution. or my 42" TV 1920x1080 (neither makes a performance difference. if so, it's not noticeable. I occasionally think my tv plays smoother with high frames than my monitor)
Edit: and yeah, my drivers are up to date, even specifically Nvidia's high res skyrim update. I wish it were that easy.
What am I doing wrong, that everyone else with this card blows my benchmarks completely away??