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Started by shannan | | 4 answers
Brand new gigabyte g1 gtx 970 doesnt feel like its performing correctly.
Hi all,
Today I bought a brand new gigabyte G1 GTX970. (upgraded from my AMD Radeon HD 7950). Before installation I followed the usual steps and UN-installed my AMD drivers and restarted my pc with the new card in it. After downloading the Nvidia drivers, the gigabyte Bios and OC platform i noticed that the card hits maximum over clock instantly. (mind you I'm only playing CS:GO).
The card hits high clock speed and nearly maximum memory clock even when I'm on the lowest settings. ( hits around 150-240 fps and moves Alot) <-- much less than what i was getting with my old card with the exact same settings.

There is also an issue with the image, it seem somewhat blurred on words and isn't displaying crystal clear picture in game. the colouring seems off and also it feels like the game play is slowed down as if the enemy is .5 ms ahead of me. My CPU usage seems to be sitting around 25 percent and i even removed a stick of ram to allocate more CPU to the game.

I can feel something's not right, the card isn't operational like it should be. Is anyone out there able to shed some light on this matter? I would greatly appreciate your help. ( I'm so excited to use the new card properly!) Here are some pictures of my pc specs and some examples of what the card is doing. The in game photo doesn't do justice in my opinion.

http://imgur.com/ywLmPLw ---pc specs ( did take 1 4gb ram stick out )
http://imgur.com/J11veH0 ---GPU activity ( the 1300mhz is when i go in game)
http://imgur.com/oDXiz5R ---in game image ( it doesnt look this nice in game, lol.)
Heres an image of the blurriness I was talking about http://imgur.com/MnpdrdZ

thank you so much for your time

shannan
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October 17, 2014 4:17:26 PM

RobCrezz said:
Try removing the nvidia drivers and doing the clean install option on the newest ones from the website.

Sounds weird.

yeah I tried that a few times. i pretty much tried everything shy of reformatting. i have a feeling that my pc is bottle necking to my cpu. even if it was that doesnt explain why its spiking in mhz at a constant frame rate in a low gpu orientated game :S
also the picture flickers sort of like an old vcr.
im puzzled tbh. thanks for your time

a b À AMD
a b Î Nvidia
a c 78 U Graphics card
October 17, 2014 8:58:41 AM

Try removing the nvidia drivers and doing the clean install option on the newest ones from the website.

Sounds weird.
October 17, 2014 6:49:58 AM

RobCrezz said:
Are you using the same input on the monitor as you were with the 7950? The screen shots look fine to me tbh.

yeah the same input as the 7950, it just seems the GPU is having to work harder to produce the images. specially cause CS is more of a CPU orrientated game so it doesnt make sense to me :( 

a b À AMD
a b Î Nvidia
a c 78 U Graphics card
October 17, 2014 6:44:03 AM

Are you using the same input on the monitor as you were with the 7950? The screen shots look fine to me tbh.

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