Whats Wrong with my System?

ldjh1985 · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:37

Hi All,

First post here and I wonder if you can help me out my PC seems to be really poor graphically at playing games, I mean Fifa 2011 on youtube on a PC that is running a simular spec as mine looks so much better than mine.

My 3DMARK vantages comes in around the 8k mark.

My Current PC

Asus P5N-E SLI
e8200 - 3.2Ghz OC'ed
Radeon 4850 1gb DDR3 GPU 700/1050
3GB PC-5300 Nanya Memory
x2 17' HP 1702 tft monitors

Any Idea?

Cheers
Lee

reilly · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:49

Hi and welcome

I take it you have updated all your drives eg gfx, or at least to catalyst 10.4 which most people find the best performance/bug free drivers. Also while you are playing a game like Fifa 2011 I see you have two screens, open task manager and catalyst and see if the CPU is 100% or gfx or ram to see if you have a bottleneck. Also what detail do you play on and is the game patched up to date?

redshadows · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:56

I have never used vantage, downloading now.

Let me see my score then I should be able to help.

I have and E8200 in right now and will fit my 4850 before I run, will also turn my RAM down to as close as I can get to 667Mhz

redshadows · 2 Nov 2010 at 22:03

Right, sorry for the double post, just about running now, only difference I have is I have a 22LCD

What resolution you running @

ldjh1985 · 3 Nov 2010 at 07:45

My 2 HP TFTs are running at 1280 x 1024

Admiral Huddy · 3 Nov 2010 at 08:21

What bus speed are you running for that OC?

ldjh1985 · 3 Nov 2010 at 09:06

Admiral Huddy said:
What bus speed are you running for that OC?

CPU or GPU?

CPU is done within the Bios, GPU will confirm later on tonight.

VFM Addict · 3 Nov 2010 at 12:41

Come to think of it what version of Windows are you using and what version was used in the youtube video?

ldjh1985 · 3 Nov 2010 at 20:45

VFM Addict said:
Come to think of it what version of Windows are you using and what version was used in the youtube video?

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, just changed the CCC 3d standard settings from balanced to high quality, wow what a difference that makes, looks like it might have just been configuration

reilly · 3 Nov 2010 at 20:53

Yea some people say that Calayst is your root problem sometimes and you have to change everything to 'let application choose settings' or something along those lines. I know a lot of people were getting really back FPS in crysis a while ago due to calayst hogging all the settings.

Glad you have figured it out

ldjh1985 · 3 Nov 2010 at 20:54

Thanks for all your help with this

much appreciated

Admiral Huddy · 4 Nov 2010 at 08:19

ldjh1985 said:
CPU or GPU?

CPU is done within the Bios, GPU will confirm later on tonight.

ermm bus speed as in FSB?

I'm wondering because your RAM limits you to a bus speed of 333MHz. I'm sure that CPU has a mutliplier of 8 so wondering how you achieved the 3.2GHz OC.. You would need a minimum of PC2-6400 for an 8 * 400 oc