Possible Bottlenecking

[Glacius]

Hey All

I have just upgraded my graphics card to a "Power Color Radeon R9 290X OC BF4 Edition 4096MB" card and well I was expecting to be able to put the cards settings on maximum in the ATI control panel and also the game settings up to maximum and still have a half decent FPS, Games like Ghosts, BF4, WoW etc yet I if I do try this I tend to get around 20-40 FPS at max and seems to still be really jerky.

These are my system spec:

CPU: AMD FX-6100 3.30GHz (3.90GHz Turbo)

Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH AMD 990FX

Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Black (4x4GB) DDR3 PC31600MHz

Graphics Card: Powercolor Radeon R9 290X OC "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5

Hard Drive 1: OCZ Solid 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive

Hard Drive 2: OCZ Solid 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive

Power Supply: 1000W Corsair RM Series 80PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply

OS: Windows 8.1

Just wondering if anyone could help to figure out if my CPU or anything else could be bottle necking my system/FPS, I am running all my components on default settings aka no overclocking.

Cheers in advance.

Glacious

 

[Martini1991]

Massive bottleneck.

You've got a top of the range GPU, and a CPU that was pretty low performance when it launched in 2011, let alone now.

To get the most out of that GPU, you need a new CPU, I'd suggest going the Intel set up, but the best price/performance for you is the FX8320, but I guarantee my R9 290 and Intel set up will be benching higher in a lot of situations.

 

[Doomedspeed]

As Martinu said, very poor CPU. The rest of the rig is stunning its a complete mismatch. Grab a 8320 and you'll be grand..

Very much agreed with the Intel suggestion too. That would have been my preference.

 

[Glacius]

Cheers for the very quick replies At least I now know what the problem seems to be, been bugging me for sometime, guess means new motherboard and CPU then.

 

[Glacius]

Just one more question and bit of advice if possible, if I where to keep with AMD (Only as don't really want hassle of replacing the motherboard) which of the 2 below if any would you suggest or what is best AMD CPU I can get for my main board irrelevant to the cost.

AMD FX-8 9370 Black Edition 8 Core AM3+ 4.7GHz Max Turbo OEM Processor

or

AMD (Piledriver) FX-8350 4.00GHz (4.20GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 8-Core Processor - Retail

or

Is there another top end AMD I could use?

Thanks in advance

 

[pandem0nium]

money irrelevant - the 9370.

it is a speed binned, overclocked 8350 though essentially. The best chip bang for buck wise from AMD would be the 8320 - get a h100 refurb from here on the cheap and clock the daylights out of it.

 

[Glacius]

Thanks for the advice, as I am useless and all be it worried about overclocking myself I went for the 9370.

Thanks again for the quick advice, Ill be staying on here

 

[Martini1991]

You'll get a lot more out of it with the 93XX.