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Graphics Performance less than expected. Help would be appreciated :-)

The_Orderian

The_Orderian

The_Orderian

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Hey there folks. Im fairly new to Overclockers and gaming PCs. I recently ordered my new gaming PC and I seem to be getting less performance than I expected. Most of the games I play are at 60FPS for sure, but I experience sever FPS drops in a range of games and I wanted to know it if is my system or the games Im playing.

Spec:


AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 3.50GHz Processor
Prolimatech Megahalems Blue CPU Cooler
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD 970 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro Blue 8GB (2x4GB) 1866MHz Dual Channel
KFA2 GeForce GTX 760 2048MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB Hard Drive
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp – OEM
XFX Pro 850W Core Edition "80 Plus Bronze" Rated Power Supply
TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard – Black
Roccat Kone+ 6000DPI Customisable Gaming Mouse
Bitfenix Spectre Pro 120mm Blue LED Fan – White
Samsung S23B300BS 23" Widescreen LED Monitor

This is really getting me down as Im unsure of what is going on.
The games Im losing FPS is are StarCraft 2, WOW, Guild Wars 2, Dota 2 and Diablo 3. I feel like I should get 60fps solid on these games. But I get drops for no reason. Please help if you can.
 
I don't play some of those games but SC2, WOW benefit from a stronger CPU. I would overclock that 6300 and see if there is any change. As for Diablo 3, there were some instances, multiplayer mainly that it slows down considerably. It seems like this is a problem with the game.

For me it happen at the same place, ACT III. Anyway OC the CPU and see what happens.
 
Most of them will the CPU related, they rely heavily on the CPU, so overclocking will help (as its not the strongest CPU).

I know Diablo III is pretty broken and DOTA can just be a bit of a mess when in heavy battle..
 
As balanced as your rig is, it's the CPU.

Strong CPU's are important for stable frame rates, unfortunately when things get busy, your CPU at stock won't cope.

Overclocking it will help somewhat.
 
I am afraid not. I dont think my CPU is the issue here. Lets take a simple example of what is happening. In GW2 There is a place called Almuten Mansion and whenever I look at it, I lose FPS. There is nothing more graphically intensive about this Mansion and I have walked all the way around it, looking to it and then away again and I always lose FPS. Understand when I say I am getting solid 60FPS most of the time until these random drops happen. It cant be the CPU. My CPU may be AMD but it isnt bad, Ive done the checking and its not a horrible CPU.
 
Have you tried checking CPU & GPU utilisation levels when the slowdowns occur? Should give a better idea of what is causing it. Might be neither of course, I remember Diablo II was terrible for slowdown due to disk access at some points!
 
Yeah I have checked the usages and all 6 of my cores are seeing use, but never are any of them used completely. They are underutilized, so its not the CPU. The GPU hasnt been taxed by ANY game Ive put in my machine, Ive never seen it go over 56% load.
 
Are the cores on around 50% useage by any chance?

This is my 'Beef' with AMD CPU's instead of giving a lot of power per core they use threads to ultilise use of more cores (if you get my meaning)... So basically if a game/program doesn't ultilise threaded CPU's the core will only be 50% (ish) used..

So in CPU heavy games it will be using as much power from a single thread as it can but only using half of the CPU's potental.

Does that Translate into English well? :D
 
Yeah man I understand you, that sends me back to the theory the issue is with these CPU intensive games and the fact they CANT use all my cores, not that my cores are bad. I bet with single player games like Skyrim Id 60FPS constant.
 
The cores aren't very powerful.
They're about 5 years behind per core performance.

Skyrim now has much better performance on AMD, but originally it was pretty horrendous.

For MMO's, to get the performance, you need Intel, but it's not worth jumping ship if you're fine with what you've got in the majority of games.
 
The games you've listed are the kind that don't perform as well on AMD CPUs, but getting 60fps constant is impossible in some cases with any CPU.

3.7GHz isn't an overclock, you're underclocking the CPU as it'd boost normally to 4.1GHz.
 
The_Orderian said:
Yeah man I understand you, that sends me back to the theory the issue is with these CPU intensive games and the fact they CANT use all my cores, not that my cores are bad. I bet with single player games like Skyrim Id 60FPS constant.
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Well yes..

Its not that you've got too many cores, its that it can only use half (not exactly half but close) of each core..

In games which aren't so CPU intensive i bet you'll see a lot better FPS. Try skyrim or Portal, something like that.. You'll soon see. :D
 
Awesome, so I mis-chose my CPU. Thanks for helping me pin down the reason, now I just need to learn how to OC it right and see if that helps at all. Ill know for my next PC to go with Intel as replacing my CPU means replacing Motherboard and bracketing and I have NO clue how to do that.
 
If you get your CPU to 4.3-4.5GHz (which these can do) you'll get some big improvements.

With shooter type games you'll have no problems, but if you only play the games you've listed, Intel would have been the better choice for sure.
 
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