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Poor performance with 7950, help?

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I recently did some upgrading first from a Phenom II 1055T (@ 3.8GHz) to a FX-8350 (4.2GHz) and finally to a i7 4770K (@ 4.3GHz).

Part of the reason I did the upgrade was I was worried about bottlenecking my HIS 7950 BOOST IceQ card.

I ran Heaven with both the AMD CPUs and got a score of around 720.
Now with my 4770K I get around 630-670.

The 4770K had a fresh install of Windows and since identifying the problem I've reinstall the motherboard drivers and un-installed and re-installed my graphics card drivers and gone from 13.4 to 13.10. None of this has made any difference to the score (which seems rather low to me). Well that's not entirely true, originally I was getting a score in the 400s, but the chipset driver re-install brought that up to the 600s.

If I overclock to 1150/1500 I get a score in the 800s, which also seems really low.

Any idea what might be causing my poor performance?

I should also say that using Afterburner I've increased the power limit to 20% and the GPU usage is about 99% during the Heaven run.
 
Heaven is not CPU reliance at all.

For the drop in score in Heaven, it would be more likely because of either you have used higher settings than your last ran, or driver issue.

Personally I'd worry about the little difference in Heaven score, but run games instead and see your frame rate FLIES comparing to your old CPUs in games that use 4 cores or less.
 
Make sure that the card stays at the rated OC, I sometimes find my card dropping to around 600/800 the odd times and have to set it back up on MSI AB.
 
Heaven and Valley are quite good tests of the GPU because they don't tend to stress the CPU. If you ran Tomb Raider previously, check that as well, as it'll give no changes from the 8350 to the 4770K.

Check that the card isn't running at 1x or something peculiar. Also check that the GPU and CPU are not throttling in any way. Are you suffering any performance problems outside of the Heaven benchmark?
 
Checked in GPU-z and it shows the card runs at PCI-e 3.0 16x when using 3D clocks.

Not got Tomb Raider.
Guild Wars 2 is giving poor performance too (it's what made me decide to run Heaven).

EDIT: Temp wise it only gets to the low 60s while running Heaven.
 
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