970 faulty or CPU duff?

[kwire]

Wonder if some of you tech heads could advise - recently bought a GALAX 970 "Black Edition" to upgrade my aging rig.

Trying out far cry 4 and mordor - they look great on nvidias recommended settings but I'm having to drop the quality right down to medium / low to get a playable framerate. Even then, there is some stutter / dropouts. Fast movement seems to be a killer. I have latest drivers etc.

Could the card be duff, as it should be doing much better than this? Or is the rest of the system the problem for these modern games? I have a i7 860 (OC to 3.4ghz), P55A-UD4, 4gb ram, windows 7 home premium.

 

[sgoaty]

4 GB of ram is going to hold you back a bit there mate.

 

[magpie1966]

hi, can I ask what res your running at please

 

[kwire]

1080p squire

 

[JustCallMeVlad]

Wonder if some of you tech heads could advise - recently bought a GALAX 970 "Black Edition" to upgrade my aging rig.

Trying out far cry 4 and mordor - they look great on nvidias recommended settings but I'm having to drop the quality right down to medium / low to get a playable framerate. Even then, there is some stutter / dropouts. Fast movement seems to be a killer. I have latest drivers etc.

Could the card be duff, as it should be doing much better than this? Or is the rest of the system the problem for these modern games? I have a i7 860 (OC to 3.4ghz), P55A-UD4, 4gb ram, windows 7 home premium.

Need more memory and to overclock that 860 to 4Ghz+

 

[rodt99]

I assume you are running 64-bit Windows. If so I would add another 4 GB ram.

 

[wazza300]

4gb of pc ram will cause stutter for sure

 

[Devrij]

Might be worth doing some synthetic benchmarks to make sure everything is doing what it should. EG Unigine or 3dmark.

 

[kwire]

Thanks ladies / gents will upgrade the ram to 8 or 16gb and see how it goes.

Pretty happy then if the i7 860 is still viable after 5 years!