Hello. I am having FPS drops, freezing and stuttering problems with my pc in like all games. BF4, Civ 5, DayZ, Arma 3, Dragon Age even euro truck simulator.

- Just bought this rig, formatted and freshly installed win 8.1 64 bit and all updated drivers.
- BIOS and All Drivers Updated.
- Avast Premier Installed and no virus, trojan so far. Newly formatted.
- Cpu and Gpu Temps are Normal.
- Gpu not overclocked.
- No background applications running maybe only browsers
- HDD and SSD bad sector scanned.. Some games are in SSD, Some are in HDD. Windows installed in SSD C drive.
- Nvidia lastest drivers installed. Newly formatted.
- Tried stock cpu clocks.
- Ram xmp profile selected 1.
- Tried without msi after burner still same.
- Integrated Graphics are disabled in Bios
- Nvidia control panel max performance mode selected also in windows power settings..
- All games are original, from steam and origin and all updated.

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Shadow of Mordor:
When stuttering and fps drops happens stats : 

Normal game experience stats:


MSI Afterburner log of game: (Shadow of Mordor)
 

 
Unigene Heaven MSI After Burner Log:


 
 

Here is video that explains my problem

youtube.com/watch?v=zNKE7kdWo_A
 
 
AS SSD BENCHMARK RESULTS
 
SSD
 

 
HDD
 

ATTO BENCHMARK RESULTS
 
SSD
 


HDD
 

 
HD TUNE BENCHMARK RESULTS
 
SSD
 


 
HDD
 


 
MEMTEST86 BENCHMARK RESULTS

 
Here is my full rig:
Windows 8.1 64 Bit on SSD
GIGABYTE Z97X-Gaming 5 (Rev1.0) Motherboard Here is link: &nbsp
Intel i5 4690k @ 4.3 GHZ OC. CPU - Cooler Master HYPER 103 LGA CPU Cooler
GSKILL 8gb (2X4GB) RipjawsX DDR3 1600 CL9 1.5V Dual RAM
Evga GTX 970 SuperClock ACX 2.0 GPU
Corsair LS SATA 3 120 GB SSD
Seagate 3.5" 1TB Barracuda HDD
Cooler Master G750M 80Plus 750w PSU
Zalman Z3 Plus MidT ATX CASE
 

Recheck this with the CPU and memory at default levels. 

Have you tried turning off the osd and running battlefield in 64bit? I and many others have been experiencing the drop to 0% gpu usage bug for a while but we mostly have 700 series cards. It seems to only effect 780/ti/titan/black cards but could also effect 900 series cards. I remember seeing a thread on the geforce forums running a 980 same thing would happen to him. He said it ended up being his HDD as he saw disk usage drop whenever the GPU usage dropped. Games installed on your tb? Maybe install on your ssd and test?
 
check out this thread http://forums.evga.com/90...out-Test-m2275993.aspx

origin in-game disabled? uninstall afterburner/precisionx? it could be the drivers atm. i've been experiencing the same problem as you for a while with my 2 780 ti's. the only driver that removes the stutter/drop is 331.82 or 331.93 but the driver is over a year old and might not work with your 970 even if you mod the ini file

Any help ?

See Post: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test. for more information from  Sajin

See this thread:
 
NVIDIA GTX 970 Drivers - Performance issues - Huge thread in NV Forums 
This is a Driver Issue.

New video added.

Nice OP very informative about your system. That being said the most I can advice you with would be testing your GPU in another working PC to be certain if it's the culprit.

Vram known issue