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Tired of AMD spec me please
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Hi,
Im getting restless of my R9 & AMD, could you please spec me a new GPU
£400-500
System Specification
- Case: Antec 300 Gaming Case
- Power Supply: OCZ ZS 750w PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Prolimatech Panther CPU Cooler
- RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: 500GB HDD
- Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
- Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 290 (4096 MB)
Thankyou
I am in the saving up process for 1 maybe 2 970's so have been looking into this a lot lately and I have the same case as you.
Be careful which card you go for as the Antec300 only has room for a max GPU length of 27cm and that's only if you don't have any hard drives in the cage where it will line up with.
I found that the Reference 970/980 will fit with about 1/2cm clearance.
Unless you want to get busy with the Dremel that is
Just a heads up but neither of you can go SLI without also changing motherboards as your current boards don't support it.
Your not really giving any real info on your problem(s) your experiencing with WoW, you just listed BF4 and said nothing about that game. And said AMD have no support. You tried different drivers? You tried doing fresh install? You done anything or just seen you have a problem then think screw it im going nVidia and putting the blame solely on AMD GPUs?
If i was you i would try and solve the problem your self and save a lot of cash as a 290 card plays BF4 fantastically and can destroy WoW too.
But if you wana blow your cash go ahead and id recommend a 970 with possibility of SLI later.
If i was you i would try and solve the problem your self and save a lot of cash as a 290 card plays BF4 fantastically and can destroy WoW too.
But if you wana blow your cash go ahead and id recommend a 970 with possibility of SLI later.
I've reinstalled WoW, Back dated drivers (With reinstall of new) Formatted my PC. I'll mainly focus WoW because I play that the most. The FPS drop came after the new driver update and I restored my pc and nothing happened. I then did everything above^^
I am playing WoW on a 290 at 1080p and have not noticed any FPS drops in any zone, instance or anything else. Infact WoW gets bent over backwards by my 290 (as you would expect).
Start looking at doing a format, updating all drivers and bios (morherboard).
Start looking at doing a format, updating all drivers and bios (morherboard).
I've done that, I've ran out of ideas
asked on WoW forums and other people have done the same
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I've done that, I've ran out of ideas
Are you turning your pc off at night?
Yeah, the light keeps me up aha. Could it be the CPU or?
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Do you see this issues in other games?
Whats your internet connection like?
Do you have a freind, whose Nvidia card you could borrow for a few days to test it out?
Whats your internet connection like?
Do you have a freind, whose Nvidia card you could borrow for a few days to test it out?
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MMO games are pretty CPU intensive, I can only get around 50fps on GW2 in large areas with a 290, even if I lower the graphics settings substantially.
(i5 3570k)
Try lowering the graphics settings in WoW to the lowest they will possibly go (other than draw distance, if there's an option for that) and see whether it affects the framerate or not. If it doesn't then I'm guessing it's your CPU.
(i5 3570k)
Try lowering the graphics settings in WoW to the lowest they will possibly go (other than draw distance, if there's an option for that) and see whether it affects the framerate or not. If it doesn't then I'm guessing it's your CPU.
Yep its already at the top of the shopping list along with a new PSU as mine is getting on for 6years old now and might as well change it sooner rather than later am also considering a new case but haven't decided on that yet.
Graphics cards do not magically lose 80 FPS performance over night.
WoW is a very CPU intensive game, thats the only thing that will randomly reduce your performance, Changing the GPU will not fix that as it has nothing to do with the GPU.
You can't expect them to fix something that has nothing to do with them and is completely outside of their control.
Throwing £300 at a new GPU will land you exactly the same problem.
I dont play anything else really, last I went on was Shogun 2 on ultra and BF bad company 2 on max and they ran perfect.
Internet is fine on WoW I run 15ms below
Tried already makes a difference of 5-10fps from high-low which is strange (would have expected bigger)
That's what I thought it can't just do that over night, but what makes a CPU do that? I'm stuck for ideas
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/12989320003
If you are playing with a 290X lowering settings will give you very little gains. The game is mostly CPU bound, which is felt especially hard in raids and BGs. Before 6.0 even a high end machine didn't manage to get more than 50 fps stable in 25 man heroic encounters.
Also keep in mind that performance in LFR and Heroic/Mythic will not be the same due to people slacking in LFR and thus there is less stuff going on.
Also, since you talk about problem for a month + now, it might be due to addons, have you tried to play the game with a cleach cache, WTF and interface folder? I am playing WoW ona 7970 and I haven't felt any change with new drivers and such. The game runs as before.
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I get raids/bg's may be a strain sometimes but in my garrison i use to get 120+ fps now 60 or below and thats everywhere like main cities and normal zones.(whole game mainly aha)
Dont change your GPU m8, really cant see it been the problem, the game hardly uses any GPU power.
My main fixes i try in Wow when im having problems, is to delete cache folder first, but i see you tried that, then i delete all my addons and install then 1 at a time.
I found wow somtimes get stuck in background which cause low FPS if you have background fps lock on so check that. Then last thing are you playing full screen? If not try that, sometimes my card gets stuck in 2d clock speeds using window mode.
My main fixes i try in Wow when im having problems, is to delete cache folder first, but i see you tried that, then i delete all my addons and install then 1 at a time.
I found wow somtimes get stuck in background which cause low FPS if you have background fps lock on so check that. Then last thing are you playing full screen? If not try that, sometimes my card gets stuck in 2d clock speeds using window mode.
If i go into my garrison and turn off crossfire and run my card in its low energy profile 500/1000 i got 250 fps, then if i turn my gaming profile 1200/1700 i got 260 fps so it really aint utilising the card much when nothing is going on.
It probably runs into a CPU bottleneck, also, not sure how well WoW works with mGPU. Just check your GPU load, if it ain't at 100% and you don't have a FPS limit, it's a CPU bottleneck.
I skimmed through that thread, it seems some Nvidia users also have the same problem, while some AMD users also don't.
There is also talk of a Microsoft update causing problems, this much is true,
Its KB3004394, find it and uninstall it.
http://91.151.218.11/showthread.php?t=18642912