Bad FPS Problems With Nvidia GTX 570, Could Be CPU?

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2012 at 15:39

Take a picture of the back of your PC so we can see the full tower.

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 15:44

Ok sure

Will do that now!

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 15:54

Have put them on now, it's a little cramped in there but temps are fine

http://kestryn.imgur.com/all/

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2012 at 15:59

There's nothing connected to the graphics card?
Going back to my initial suspicion.

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:03

If your talking DVI then I just took it out for the picture but it's plugged into the card normally. Will take one with all the leads in.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:05

Agh, I see.

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:06

Done also put MSI up

Orcvader · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:13

Hold on, why isn't the card on the top PCI-E slot? What board is that?

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:14

ubersonic said:
Sounds like its using the processor for graphics instead of the 570.

The following benchmarks were done at high quality at 1080P (the 570 is better than a 6850):

AMD A8-3850 (3.33GHz with HD 6850 1GB) 61-71 FPS
AMD A8-3850 (3.33GHz) 18-22 FPS

Any ideas how I could switch it to using the 570 as maybe that's what all games are doing. Also I'm 1920x1080 as well

Phatzy · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:15

Is that 0% GPU usage in-game?

Freddie589 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:17

Orcvader said:
Hold on, why isn't the card on the top PCI-E slot? What board is that?

^
This

I just found this in the motherboard manual:

Its an Asus F1A55-M AMD A55

Kestryn - can you please open a game for me, any game that is graphics intensive for example TF2, portal, Battlefield 3 etc... and keep afterburner running in the background, play for a few minutes and then take a screenshot off afterburner, I want to see if your GPU is actually being used.

Orcvader · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:19

Kestryn said:
Any ideas how I could switch it to using the 570 as maybe that's what all games are doing. Also I'm 1920x1080 as well

In your device manager picture the 570 is the only one listed there, sot he onboard is disabled.

And you have the card in the wrong slot. It's running at x4. This will heavily bottleneck the card. You need it at the top slot to run at x16.

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:19

Orcvader said:
Hold on, why isn't the card on the top PCI-E slot? What board is that?

As the placing of the Sound Card there was like a 5mm gap for the fans on the card to breath, therefore it was put on the other. Would that make a difference? Currently trying to find a link to my board for you

Freddie589 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:21

Kestryn said:
As the placing of the Sound Card there was like a 5mm gap for the fans on the card to breath, therefore it was put on the other. Would that make a difference? Currently trying to find a link to my board for you

Your board is stated above its an, Asus F1A55-M AMD A55

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:22

Does it matter about how close it will be to the sound card as there is only like a 1cm gap, would the card still be able to draw air?

Orcvader · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:25

It'll be fine, I have a sound card under mine and temps are still fine.

Kestryn · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:26

Ah few I will do that and thanks soooooooooooooo much will take a pic when its done and will let u know how it runs

Freddie589 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:27

Just wondering where you found out that the card only runs in X4 mode Orcvader, as I can't seem to find it on the manual.

**edit**

Oooooh usernames are now auto hyperlinked

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:29

Orcvader said:
Hold on, why isn't the card on the top PCI-E slot? What board is that?

Wouldn't explain the frame rate.
A 4x doesn't bottleneck a 6990 to give less than 20 FPS in ARMA lol.

Although the lane may be giving another problem, but bandwidth would certainly be fine.

Freddie589 · 11 Aug 2012 at 16:30

Martini1991 said:
Wouldn't explain the frame rate.
A 4x doesn't bottleneck a 6990 to give less than 20 FPS in ARMA lol.

? No but for a lower end card such as a 570 it would need the x16 lane to keep above 30fps and a x4 570 would bottle it very low as far as I know.
I expect trying it in the X16 lane and seeing what performance gains come from that is the best step to take first, I'm sure it would give a good improvement