@howmakewood: yes, non K

@PfizersaurusRex: I will try that when I get home. In Overwatch it shows your gpu usage and I do not believe it was anywhere close to 100%. I think it was around 20% if I am not mistaken. Are you saying there is nothing wrong with the card and that I am being bottlenecked from my CPU and ram?

Upgrading my CPU and RAM will increase my FPS by that much? This is based off the performance I have seen my friends and other streamers get on the same games listed above. It just doesn't make sense to me that the CPU and RAM will give me that much of a difference in performance compared to one of the top of the line video cards would provide.

I also tested WOW on everything max and when in a main city with nothing going on I am only seeing about 60 fps. How are my frames so low on such a powerful card even if I was bottlenecking. Also I find it hard to believe an I7 is such a huge bottleneck.

I appreciate the reply!

Hey guys, I had just got back into PC gaming and decided to upgrade my video card of my old gaming rig. I ended up picking up the ZOTAC 1080TI AMP Extreme Edition. Let start by first mentioning I am still on 1080p with a 144hz monitor. I know the video card is overkill for 1080p gaming but thought it would help out the 144hz refresh rate until I decide to make the jump to 1440p or 4K. Anyway I started to play some games like Battlegrounds, Project Cars, Shadow of Mordor and Overwatch. I noticed I was not getting the frames I was expecting and was not correlating to the benchmarks I have seen online. I know my CPU is dated and my Ram as well but I didn't expect it to bottle neck this hard.

I performed a clean Windows 10 Pro 64bit install as well as have the latest drivers installed and even flashed my bios to the latest version.

These are the FPS I am getting in each game maxed all the way out:

1) Shadow of Mordor: 95-100fps constant. I turned no cap FPS on in settings and doesn't seem to want to go over 100 FPS. Also does not dip below 95 at any time. To me it seems capped and was wondering if I was doing something wrong.

2) Project Cars: With rain and other cars on the screen I am getting like 40-60FPS. Very disappointing.

3) Overwatch: 150-180fps. I have seen some streamers on twitch with a less powerful video card get 200+ FPS.

4) Battlegrounds: 50-80FPS Also thought this was very dissapointing.

These are my specs as follows:

CPU: i7 3820 @ 3.6ghz Sandy Bridge

Mobo: EVGA X79 FTW

RAM: 24GB DDR3

PSU: Corsair HX750

Monitor: Asus 1080p 144hz

I bought the video card from micro center so I have 30 days to exchange or return. Do you guys think the card is faulty? Should I exchange or return the card?

I just find it hard to believe CPU and RAM can give me a significant boost in FPS. For example I have seen some streamers get 200+ fps in Overwatch whereas I am only getting 150-180fps. Can a CPU and RAM increase the FPS by 50-100FPS?!?

I understand 1080p does not utilize the card but I would think if my card is more powerful than some other streamers I've viewed or even my friends that I should be getting better performance in the same games.

Am I missing something here? Any advise is appreciated, thank you!