ZorgTheDestroyer
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I don't play any really demanding games. Mostly CS:GO and Quake Live. Recently, I upgraded my old HD7770 to a HD7970.
I started getting serious drops in FPS, which I figured were down to the motherboard VRMs over heating cus it was an old board. I forget the exact model. i think it was an Asus M74 something or other.
Anyways, I was right about the FPS drops, and that is fixed, BUT, I can no longer get the same FPS as I could with my old setup. I get around 200 FPS on CS:GO with all the settings maxed out, which my old card couldn't do, BUT, I can't get any increase from turning the settings down. I understand that it's likely my CPU bottlenecking, but with my old card, on medium - low settings, I could get up to 400 FPS (And YES! There IS a noticable difference between 400 and 200 FPS) but turning down settings now, can't get me more than around 300 FPS even on minimum settings across the board.
I get the whole bottlenecking thing, but how on earth can that make the system perform WORSE than before at low settings?
The CPU is an AMD FX8350 and the mobo is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. I got the latest GPU driver from AMD, and I've turned everything in CCC to "performance". Though...it's a different version to what I'm used to. I haven't played with the BIOS yet, cus none of the function keys, or the delete or escape work on my keyboard and I've ordered a cheapie just for when I need those keys, until I can be bothered to pull the caps and open it up to fix it.
Oh, I should add: I get way better FPS in Furmark now than before, so the card is fine. I fully expected the CPU to now be the bottleneck, but I'd have expected to get the SAME FPS as before in that case, not more on high settings and less on low settings.
I started getting serious drops in FPS, which I figured were down to the motherboard VRMs over heating cus it was an old board. I forget the exact model. i think it was an Asus M74 something or other.
Anyways, I was right about the FPS drops, and that is fixed, BUT, I can no longer get the same FPS as I could with my old setup. I get around 200 FPS on CS:GO with all the settings maxed out, which my old card couldn't do, BUT, I can't get any increase from turning the settings down. I understand that it's likely my CPU bottlenecking, but with my old card, on medium - low settings, I could get up to 400 FPS (And YES! There IS a noticable difference between 400 and 200 FPS) but turning down settings now, can't get me more than around 300 FPS even on minimum settings across the board.
I get the whole bottlenecking thing, but how on earth can that make the system perform WORSE than before at low settings?
The CPU is an AMD FX8350 and the mobo is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. I got the latest GPU driver from AMD, and I've turned everything in CCC to "performance". Though...it's a different version to what I'm used to. I haven't played with the BIOS yet, cus none of the function keys, or the delete or escape work on my keyboard and I've ordered a cheapie just for when I need those keys, until I can be bothered to pull the caps and open it up to fix it.
Oh, I should add: I get way better FPS in Furmark now than before, so the card is fine. I fully expected the CPU to now be the bottleneck, but I'd have expected to get the SAME FPS as before in that case, not more on high settings and less on low settings.
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