Gtx 970 low frames

[hjmhkh]

Hi, I recently bought the ASUS Strix GTX 970.

Is it normal that in Batman Arkham City that i'm getting around 50 fps on maxed settings?
Or Borderlands 2 frequently drops to 35 fps?

I had someone tell me that my PSU could be limiting the card, even though it reaches 98% usage.
But for the point of information, I have a Corsair CX 600w PSU

I am also running an i5 3340 @ 3.3 Ghz

Thanks in advance

[Nate152]

Hello hjmhkh

Welcome to the ROG forum !

You have your gtx 970 maxed out with 98% gpu usage. What resolution are you gaming at and are you using Antialiasing?

[hjmhkh]

Well it might hit 100% and I just don't notice, I mean it's obviously not throttling to 50 or something.
My resolution is always set to 1080 and I usually have AA on MSAA x8.

Is it that i'm expecting too much from the card and should knock down AA?

[hjmhkh]

In borderlands 2, I put every setting on the lowest it could be and it's the same. Drops to 35 and frequently below 60 fps

[Nate152]

yeah back off the AA 8x is too much, try it at x2 or x4 this will get you more FPS.

[hjmhkh]

People are telling me that my poor quality psu is causing the problem

[Nate152]

No I doubt it's your psu, the gtx 970 calls for a minimum of a 500w psu.

Have you lowered the AA? AA puts a big hit on performance.

[hjmhkh]

well i put everything on borderlands 2 on low/off and i still get the performance hit

[Nate152]

Have you tried updating to the latest NVidia driver 352.86?

If you update to the new driver here is what I do. After the license agreement click custom/advanced install. Uncheck everything except the graphics driver and PhysX driver then just below check the only box that says perform a clean installation.

I don't use Geforce experience or the NVidia audio drivers.

Give this a try and see if it helps performance any.

[hjmhkh]

I tried that earlier, didn't do anything :/