Hi,
So after deliberation and posts on here the Sapphire R9 380 popped up on special, so i grabbed one.
I only really care about playing WoW and so hoped/wished to be able to bump up to Ultra + some form of AA and get a solid 60fps (sync'd). Well that hasn't quite happened, I even struggle to maintain 50fps on High with CMAA in the garrison. At the moment I would say that the performance boost over my old 6870 1Gb is 30 - 40%. So underwhelming/disappointing to say the least.
I tried Crimson 16.1 but that resulted in WoW throwing exceptions/freezing within seconds of entering the game. I also completely uninstalled using DDU and reinstalled, no help. So I am running the ones before 16.1 (15.12) which seems stable for me at least. I have noticed that the GPU never runs at full clock speed, seems to bounce between 600 - 1010
My rig is
"Ultima Viper" Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00Gz
Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
Corsair TX650 PSU
I might be missing something or I've bought a lemon/been unrealistic...I did do my research and given what people advised/other peoples FPS I thought I was golden.
Any thoughts?
So after deliberation and posts on here the Sapphire R9 380 popped up on special, so i grabbed one.
I only really care about playing WoW and so hoped/wished to be able to bump up to Ultra + some form of AA and get a solid 60fps (sync'd). Well that hasn't quite happened, I even struggle to maintain 50fps on High with CMAA in the garrison. At the moment I would say that the performance boost over my old 6870 1Gb is 30 - 40%. So underwhelming/disappointing to say the least.
I tried Crimson 16.1 but that resulted in WoW throwing exceptions/freezing within seconds of entering the game. I also completely uninstalled using DDU and reinstalled, no help. So I am running the ones before 16.1 (15.12) which seems stable for me at least. I have noticed that the GPU never runs at full clock speed, seems to bounce between 600 - 1010
My rig is
"Ultima Viper" Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00Gz
Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
Corsair TX650 PSU
I might be missing something or I've bought a lemon/been unrealistic...I did do my research and given what people advised/other peoples FPS I thought I was golden.
Any thoughts?
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