Seemingly inexplicable poor FPS in games

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

Op also doesn't typically run 4.5ghz if you refer to his prior posts.

Yeah I do. Used to run 4.8ghz but can't remember the stable settings.

 

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

Lol.
Use profiles with your fx6300.

And you were trying 5ghz only the other week?
Which is what I mean by typically, your fx8150 was running 4.8ghz for a while?

Yeah...I changed boards, couldn't remember the settings and it didn't seem stable so went back to my original Crosshair V but the OS was corrupt so did a fresh install and left it at 4.5Ghz. Think I've probably got the 4.8 profile on the BIOS but I have probably messed about with it trying to get to 5.0Ghz. I did get to a stable 4.9Ghz and even got over 5.0Ghz but, I think the corruption had happened by then and was getting random BSODs relating to corrupt OS.

I nearly lost a tonne of work so there's no way I was going to try to overclocking again. Just stuck with what I know works and keeps temps uber low. I lost 2 days work which is a lot of money, made it up ok but it's not ok putting my work system at risk. This is why I'm going to have the 8150 in another system that is simply there to back everything up to each day.

 

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

An 8150 can't normally get to 5GHz. A 6300 can usually get to 5GHz even on air, as long as the board's decent (which it is). That's why he went for the 6350 over the 8320, higher overclocking, where the extra two cores on the 8320 wouldn't likely to get much use anyway. i.e. 6 PD cores at 5GHz vs 8 PD cores at ~4.8GHz (compared to his current 8 BD cores at 4.5GHz).

Summin like that yeah. And I went with the 6350 to maximise my chances of getting a gem of a chip to overclock as AMD chooses its best chips for the higher clocked retail chips!

 

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

My 1055T Phenom II would have disagreed.

There's some degree of binning, but you'll get outliers.

I could end up with a chip that only just does 4ghz but because it did 3.9 AMD sold it as that. It's probably the same chance buying either but, superstition and that.

 

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

Have you checked to see if you have AMD DUAL CORE OPTIMISER installed in add/remove programs . Some games come with this piece of software REMOVE it asap. it installs for intel systems too, you dont need it if running Win7/8 or latest gen hardware it only relates to older AMD cpus and pre Win 7.

this could totally be the cause of your issue as recently uninstalling it from my system it gave me an FPS increase of 5-10 depending on game and check my GPU its awful .

Never seen that. Don't think I have it.