Super low 3Dmark11 physic score

final734

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Hey everyone, I just recently purchased a MSI 7950, an upgrade from my 6770. Somehow, I'm get horrible frames around 10FPS whereas my 6770 would have around 30. So I've tried jus about everything but tonight I ran a benchmark and i got 1900 on my physic score, which from what I know is a CPU test.

At first, with the low FPS I was thinking maybe a faulty 7950 card but after my 3Dmark11 test, I'm kind of stumped.

Looking for any suggestions/advice...

Specs:
Gigabyte GA 880mGM-D2H
MSI 7950 @ 880/1250
2x4GB Corsair DDR3 ram
AMD Phenom X2 965 @ 3.6ghz
Corsair CX600 PSU

Benchmark :
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6382135
Overall score was P4484 , which I believe is low.
 

oddlyinsane

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Well, your CPU would definitely be holding the 7950 back (bottlenecking it), but you are getting lower frames compared to your 6770...
I would recommend getting a better CPU (3570k) and then see what happens. I'm sure there is a CPU bottleneck, but I'm not too sure why you would be getting less frames...
I'll have a think about it.
 

slicedtoad

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Yeah, try running driver sweeper and reinstalling latest amd drivers. Other than that, I'm not sure why your fps would have gone down. As oddlyinsane said, that cpu is kind of a huge bottleneck but fps should still have gone up.