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So I've just swapped out my nVidea 560 for a Sapphire 7970 Ghz edition. The card gets fantastic write ups everywhere and decided it was the one for me, coming in £100 cheaper than the 680 4gb with similar benchmarks in all my favourite games. I'm a little worried because my performance in games is nothing like many of the reviews of the card seem to be saying and I'm hoping somebody can explain this.
If anything my system should be at least the same speed in games but it is actually slower. I've added in an SSD and an Xonar DG to my rig as well so I'm unsure to what the problem is, it almost feels like I have downgraded. Skyrim for example. I'm getting no more than 50fps indoors on the launcher high settings, with an average of 40fps (this is in a tiny room of a mod called alternate start with no texture mods). My 560 was getting a consistent 60 on these settings outside, never-mind in a tiny room.
I'm playing at a resolution of 1680x1050 so monitor size shouldn't be an issue, running the latest beta drivers from AMD on windows 8 x64 packing 8gb of ram with a sandy bridge i5 2500k at stock clock (3.3) so I don't think there is any problems there.
Is there any chance I have a dodgy card or something? Is there any way to test this? I'm seriously considering sending the card back and rolling with a 670 or 680 as I was weary enough of switching to AMD as it was and this really isn't helping my nerves. I'm getting 90% gpu usage on my desktop when I'm not running any programs other than CCC.
Could my issue have anything to-do with not doing a totally clean build with the 7970? As I had my 560 in my system while I was setting up windows 8 and there's still nvidea graphics drivers displaying in my programs and features list and the only thing I can find AMD related is AMD catalyst install manager and application profiles. I tried uninstalling the nvidea related things (graphics driver, update and 3d vision driver) and my computer wouldn't come on properly any-more with the screen going black and my keyboards lights going on and off repeatedly. I had to unplug the GPU and use my motherboard's hdmi output to initiate a system restore to get these programs back so that I could use my GPU's port again
Is my issue that my AMD card is for some reason using the nvidea drivers even though I've installed the AMD ones? The only thing in the devices menu is the AMD 7900 series though so I'm not sure.
Any information or help will be really appreciated as understandably I'm both worried and confused, this is supposed to be a kick-ass card in a decent rig so there's clearly something gone wrong.
If anything my system should be at least the same speed in games but it is actually slower. I've added in an SSD and an Xonar DG to my rig as well so I'm unsure to what the problem is, it almost feels like I have downgraded. Skyrim for example. I'm getting no more than 50fps indoors on the launcher high settings, with an average of 40fps (this is in a tiny room of a mod called alternate start with no texture mods). My 560 was getting a consistent 60 on these settings outside, never-mind in a tiny room.
I'm playing at a resolution of 1680x1050 so monitor size shouldn't be an issue, running the latest beta drivers from AMD on windows 8 x64 packing 8gb of ram with a sandy bridge i5 2500k at stock clock (3.3) so I don't think there is any problems there.
Is there any chance I have a dodgy card or something? Is there any way to test this? I'm seriously considering sending the card back and rolling with a 670 or 680 as I was weary enough of switching to AMD as it was and this really isn't helping my nerves. I'm getting 90% gpu usage on my desktop when I'm not running any programs other than CCC.
Could my issue have anything to-do with not doing a totally clean build with the 7970? As I had my 560 in my system while I was setting up windows 8 and there's still nvidea graphics drivers displaying in my programs and features list and the only thing I can find AMD related is AMD catalyst install manager and application profiles. I tried uninstalling the nvidea related things (graphics driver, update and 3d vision driver) and my computer wouldn't come on properly any-more with the screen going black and my keyboards lights going on and off repeatedly. I had to unplug the GPU and use my motherboard's hdmi output to initiate a system restore to get these programs back so that I could use my GPU's port again
Is my issue that my AMD card is for some reason using the nvidea drivers even though I've installed the AMD ones? The only thing in the devices menu is the AMD 7900 series though so I'm not sure.
Any information or help will be really appreciated as understandably I'm both worried and confused, this is supposed to be a kick-ass card in a decent rig so there's clearly something gone wrong.
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