Disable vsync.

2x or 4x MSAA? Honestly that doesn't seem too far off, but keep in mind BF4 is a pretty CPU hungry game.
 
Have you tried any other games?

It's at 100%.  4X MSAA.  My gpu usage on both cards is only 50-60% over 6 minute time frame.  These cards should be getting more frames then my 670's did.  I wonder if its something in the nvidia settings.  A member in my clan has a gtx 780 and with same settings is getting 140-150 Fps on 1 card.  Thanks again for help

TDorenkott
Im only getting about 120 FPS in bf4.

Am I missing something here? How is that considered "Low FPS"

What resolution are you running?
 

TDorenkott
It's at 100%.  4X MSAA.  My gpu usage on both cards is only 50-60% over 6 minute time frame.  These cards should be getting more frames then my 670's did.  I wonder if its something in the nvidia settings.  A member in my clan has a gtx 780 and with same settings is getting 140-150 Fps on 1 card.  Thanks again for help

What resolution does this clan member run?

There's no way he's getting that much with a 780 running flat Ultra. To get 90 fps with my old 780 SC ACX I ran ultra textures, 2XMSAA, high terrain detail, no ambient occlusion or motion blur, low water and medium mesh and shadows.

You're really limited by your CPU here. While your CPU supports PCIe 3.0 it's really intended for systems running a single graphics card. This particular CPU only has 16 PCIe lanes. When you add-up the fact that your SATA controllers, NIC, onboard or expanded audio, plus your graphics cards are all sucking down lanes you're CPU is the major bottle neck here.

Your CPU only supports running one card at x16. If you run two cards each will run at half the bandwidth x8 x8. This a major limiting factor when your pushing extreme graphics at 1080p and above.
 
You really wont reap the full potential of your graphics cards using an i5 CPU. You'll need an i7 with 40 PCIe lanes to eliminate all bottlenecking in your system. Get the lead out!

minuteman
You're really limited by your CPU here. While your CPU supports PCIe 3.0 it's really intended for systems running a single graphics card. This particular CPU only has 16 PCIe lanes. When you add-up the fact that your SATA controllers, NIC, onboard or expanded audio, plus your graphics cards are all sucking down lanes you're CPU is the major bottle neck here.

Your CPU only supports running one card at x16. If you run two cards each will run at half the bandwidth x8 x8. This a major limiting factor when your pushing extreme graphics at 1080p and above.
 
You really wont reap the full potential of your graphics cards using an i5 CPU. You'll need an i7 with 40 PCIe lanes to eliminate all bottlenecking in your system. Get the lead out!

False. Normal SATA III 6GB ports do not use PCI-E lanes, only SATA Express and M.2 use up to 2-4 lanes of PCI-E. NIC, onboard audio, dedicated audio, raid cards & etc. that you connect to x1-x4 PCI-E slots use PCH lanes so they don't affect CPU lanes.   

Fennicillin
Could it be BF4 just needs an update?

It may be because the OP is not running default nvidia control panel settings.

You should be getting more CPU usage than 80% so something is definitely holding your system back.
I've run twin 670's, 770's, 780's, and 780 Ti's in SLI, all generate consistent 90-99% CPU usage in BF4.
Are you running Win 7 or 8.1 and hopefully x64?
Could your 970's possibly be throttling?
 
BF4 is CPU intensive, so it will undoubtedly take advantage of the 4 extra threads with an i7 (vs. i5).
 

LiMiTeD_DiAvOlO

NemesisChild
You should be getting more CPU usage than 80% so something is definitely holding your system back.
I've run twin 670's, 770's, 780's, and 780 Ti's in SLI, all generate consistent 90-99% CPU usage in BF4.
Are you running Win 7 or 8.1 and hopefully x64?
Could your 970's possibly be throttling?
 
BF4 is CPU intensive, so it will undoubtedly take advantage of the 4 extra threads with an i7 (vs. i5).
 

What is your CPU?

Look at his sig...
 
It's a 4790k @ 4.7GHz.
 

It's my GPU thats at 80%.

TDorenkott
It's my GPU thats at 80%.

Sorry, I meant GPU usage (not CPU).

Go into NVidia control panel / program settings / BF4 / and click restore and then select prefer maximum performance.

robt1386
If your gpu usage isnt at 99 percent your cpu is the bottleneck. As mentioned before bf4 is very cpu dependent.

Yeah, the shader cache helps a lot with this though.