Does my system have a bottle neck!

[Tabasco]

Hi all can you tell me if my system has a bottle neck , im just finding a lot of games are running slower than they should and it seems that a lot of lower spec machines run stuff better , maybe ive set somthing up wrong.

Thanks

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[Tabasco]

hmm only obvious thing is 1gb of vram can be a bit low for max settings in some games so you might be hitting your vram limits (vram in crossfire doesnt stack) - run msi afterburner - you can see what vram your using during gameplay. your cpu isnt exactly a beast for gaming but should still hold up quite well with a better gpu with 2gb of vram. equivelent gpus to the 5870 but with more vram are the 6950 or 7850.

Ah thanks for your reply so if i was to take out both my cards and replace them with one of these >> HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² Turbo 3072MB GDDR5 i would see a nice performance boost?

 

[Tabasco]

Overclock that CPU to 4ghz odd. Should help with the Crossfire performance.

Hiya Orcvader thanks for your reply , i tried to overclock the cpu a few weeks ago.. but the system got to 3.6ghz then it kept giving me blue screen of death , now my cpu temps idle are : 28c and only seem togo to 45c max... not sure what im doing wrong.

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