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Possible Bottlenecking

Glacius

Glacius

Glacius

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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :)
 
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.
 
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 :)
 
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