Can you try running Heaven bench after a full run of just watching the scenes?  Then post back your scores!

That dont seem right. Im running 2 570's and im getting about 50fps on max settings.

That is very very cool.  Either you have it in your garage in Alaska or your monitoring program is giving you false readings.  I idle at 31,28,29,25,29,32 @ 4.1 ghz and 1.36875v to the cpu.(24/7 spec not benching spec)  I use Real Temp GT and Eleet for monitoring temps.  For comparison here is my Heaven score with 2 580 HC 2 @ 950/1900/2250 w/1.15v......

Unigine

Heaven Benchmark v2.1

FPS: 49.7
Scores: 1252
Min FPS: 25.8
Max FPS: 110.3

Hardware

Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz
CPU flags: 3316MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 8.17.12.6309 1536Mb

Settings

Render: direct3d11
Mode: 2560x1600 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 8x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled Tessellation: extreme
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010

mpr86

Ok I will do that probably later tonight. Btw. What does you 980x idle at on your watercooler? I'm idling around 11-12C and general gaming will get it up to like 18C. Seems too low to be real?

You're looking at the Tcase temps. Use the core temps. Obviously, you cannot be below your ambient room temp.

Here is an updated benchmark with fans at 100% letting it run 1 whole time before starting benchmark.
 

Unigine

Heaven Benchmark v2.1

FPS: 61.7
Scores: 1555
Min FPS: 25.9
Max FPS: 128.7

Hardware

Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz
CPU flags: 3316MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 8.17.12.6309 1536Mb

Settings

Render: direct3d11
Mode: 2560x1440 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled Tessellation: extreme

 I have 580's sli every setting on max in heaven and getting max 150 fps and 67 fps on the last screen score 1700. I don't think people are realizing how cpu heavy these 580 cards are, if your cpu is under 4 ghz these cards will not breath,guru benchmarked these in sli and they were bottlenecking with a cpu at 3.8!

@zimmie01 your test run was at 1920x1080 and the OP's was at 2560x1440 so they cannot be compared.

Yeah man OC the hell outta that 980x, that is too expensive and awesome of a processor to be sitting at the stock clocks... with a good OC to around 4 Ghz I think you would see an exceptional boost in performance.. you said you have an H70 as well, so Im sure your temps will be fine with a good OC

Yes, overclocking the video cards is much easier. Download the latest version of MSI afterburner and start oc'ing! Just a matter of adjusting some sliders, going step by step, and testing stability after each step...
More on this can be found on this forum!
Btw, if you'd like, you can always send me your 980X and I'll send you my 920 together with a BIOS template to run it at 4GHz+