Phenom 9850 Quad Bottlenecking GTX 570?

As though 84% MAX is a good thing lol, and that will be at 20oC at 30% load on 240VAC. Not 40oC at 70% load on 115VAC as in the US. Given, it is a PSU that can power stuff, but if it goes bang, watch out! That PSU is POS period.
 
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spynoodle said:
Bad luck? :o Okay, so maybe it's often screwed up, but I've always had good luck with it so it can't always be wrong. :)
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So you've verified what it said it with a voltmeter or are you saying it's always said ~12v and you think it was correct? :cool:
 
87dtna said:
So you've verified what it said it with a voltmeter or are you saying it's always said ~12v and you think it was correct? :cool:
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Well, it's usually .2 to .3 volts above or below 12v, so I assumed that it was probably right. I think that it also seems to be the same as my motherboard's readings. It probably would be good to voltmeter-check it though, due to the whole multi-rail thing.
 
spynoodle said:
Bad luck? :o Okay, so maybe it's often screwed up, but I've always had good luck with it so it can't always be wrong. :)
*Facepalm at self*
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87dtna said:
So you've verified what it said it with a voltmeter or are you saying it's always said ~12v and you think it was correct? :cool:
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12V can fluctuate by 0.6+/- under ATX12V standards. But that is not the only issue.
 
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Regardless, I'd replace the Jeantech with something good before thinking about changing anything else.

If it doesn't solve the performance problems, at least you can keep it for future builds and know that your computer will be safe.
 
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I stumbled across this post searching for a problem im having with gta iv.

To the OP, i dont think its your cpu. I have a 1055t x6 @3.5, 4g ddr3 1600 @ 1667 8-8-8-24 and a gtx 570 @ 850/2000 powered by a corsair 650w with a 53a 12v rail. More then enough juice.
And gta iv runs like garbage. 20-40 fps with an unplayable amount of stutter no matter what settings. By comparison Bad company 2 @ max in game sets @1920x1080 rarely drops below 70 fps. And on most maps stays 80- 100fps the whole time.

For starters i would def make sure you have cleaned our any old drivers you might have installed. Your power supply has 3 12v rails 17a, 25a and 16a. The gtx570 @ load consumes around 213w. Your 25a 2nd rail provides 300w. Your other two rails would not have enough power to run the gtx570 as your 17a rail only provides 204. Which would be cutting it close. I would def get a new power supply. But provided its pulling from the 2nd rail it shouldnt be the cause of your problems. If not then there ya go.

Im actually curious if you have been able to track down this issue. As i would love to be able to play gta IV.


Oh and also, dont get the athlon quad someone suggested. It doesnt have any L3 cache. It wouldnt be much of an upgrade if one at all. If your getting a new cpu from amd go phenom II. Something like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808
 


Drivers clock speeds and the like listed there. Also tried 1.05v ( what i run) and 1.063v just to make sure even though it runs beautiful in every other game. Even tried default sets. Id love for it to be the drivers. But these are the newest listed @ nvidias website. Also, gpu usage rarely goes above 40% with gta IV. Cpu isnt being used much either.
 
GTA IV is a shoddy port that's excessively hungry for damn near every resource your computer can offer. I ran the benchmark on medium detail, V. High render and I got a consistent 21 fps. It then shows it only used 80% of my GPU and 60% of my CPU. In fact the highest usage was RAM at 87% or something, part of which is obviously being used for Windows processes and the like. I've given up on getting it to perform on max settings, but it plays smoothly on the settings I just mentioned for the most part, so I leave it be. It seems to be pretty memory dependant too, so maybe the DDR2 is slowing you down? I know its not supposed to be a huge difference in performance but I've seen stranger things.
 
It definitely seem to be a very poorly ported game. Steams 9.99 deal for that and liberty cities a few days ago got me to buy it. Appears i wasted that 10 bucks. And that was after all the fun i had with securom crashing at launch after the game downloaded.
 
I bought the GTA pack as well. It needs a really beefy cpu. It eats my athlon for breakfest, 100% usage almost all the time.

It's a bad port, and the fact that game engine renders the entire city, there's no levels etc. Bad LOD implementation too.

But mostly it's shoddy programming. And the Phenom 9850 doesn't help.
 
linkin said:
I bought the GTA pack as well. It needs a really beefy cpu. It eats my athlon for breakfest, 100% usage almost all the time.
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That's what I thought too, which is why I was so surprised by such low CPU usage in the benchmark. Even if it doesn't utilize more than 4 cores I should still see Numbers in the mid 60's%, not high 50's and just hitting 60. I really need to re-run that test, simply because I can't remember the exact numbers lol.

EDIT: Ok for some reason I now am getting 55fps on High textures and v. high render. CPU still only shows about 50% usage but I guess that point is moot now since I'm getting buttery smooth framerates. :\
 
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The benchmark is for multiplayer. I get much better performance in multiplayer than I do in singleplayer.
 
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