Lower performance than I expected. Any Ideas?

DTurbo_Tom · 13 May 2009 at 00:48

Hi,

I'll just give my setup first;

AMD Phenom X3 8650. XFX ATi HD Radeon 4890. 4GB OCZ Gold Edition 1066MHZ, Gigabyte MA790FX-DS4. Vista 64 H.Premium.

I've been playing Crysis, and on 1280 x 1024 High settings and I get like 16-18fps during an open area with medium ammount of guys, the rest is around 25fps and I can only get 30+ if I stare at the ground or inside. I am aware that Crysis is horribly coded and a serious system hog, but dont these figures seem a bit low? It's really frustrating. I have had thoughts of the CPU maybe bottlenecking, but will an X4 or Q intel really give me more performance?. Is there something wrong?. It's not really much of an improvement over my HD 4670!.

jak731 · 13 May 2009 at 01:32

whats your cpu clock speed?

DTurbo_Tom · 13 May 2009 at 02:26

2.3 Ghz

Geckovich · 13 May 2009 at 09:44

And it's a Phenom, not a Phenom 2?

That will be the problem I think, CPU bottleneck.

DTurbo_Tom · 13 May 2009 at 13:15

Yeah its a standard Phenom. I've seen people running it nicely on high with this processor, I just didnt think it'd make that much difference. Thinking of just buying a cheap Athlon X2 with a high clock speed as Im pretty much just a gamer.

mp260767 · 13 May 2009 at 13:43

might be worth running a couple of benchmarks (3dmark06 etc) just to get a general idea of hows its set.

Ease · 13 May 2009 at 13:57

That's really weird. I only have the 4850, and I play on a higher resolution that you, with the same settings, and I get ~40FPS! Surely one core, at a slightly faster clock rate, can't make that much of a difference?! My guess would be that you have some resource-hogging process running in the background.

DTurbo_Tom · 14 May 2009 at 00:55

I updated my motherboard bios and clocked the CPU to 2.5 and man did that make a difference!. 40fps now easily, drops to around 20 in the highest of action. The last level is pretty much smooth. The motherboard update i think has brought the gains, but a Q6600 at 3.3 GHz is really worlds apart from a budget Phenom I X3!. The extra cores dont make any difference as Crysis likes clock speed, the cores are pretty much irrelevant, I'd say cache size and pure clock speed are whats needed for Crysis. If I run into a bit more cash, I'll probrably look at dropping in a Phenom II X4.

Phil2008 · 14 May 2009 at 11:07

I get 28-48 playing crysis on high detail at 1280x1024 and that with my good old 3870 card. My 3870 is ace cos its still going strong in all games.

BAMBI · 14 May 2009 at 13:50

DTurbo_Tom said:
I updated my motherboard bios and clocked the CPU to 2.5 and man did that make a difference!. 40fps now easily, drops to around 20 in the highest of action. The last level is pretty much smooth. The motherboard update i think has brought the gains, but a Q6600 at 3.3 GHz is really worlds apart from a budget Phenom I X3!. The extra cores dont make any difference as Crysis likes clock speed, the cores are pretty much irrelevant, I'd say cache size and pure clock speed are whats needed for Crysis. If I run into a bit more cash, I'll probrably look at dropping in a Phenom II X4.

There is no way that a 200Mhz OC gave you that much of an improvment. Seems like the old BIOS was a probem or you had some wrong settings selected.