Radeon 7950 Low Frame Rate

MikeJ5

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Hello, I recently bought a XFX DD Radeon 7950. I went to run a few games to test out the card as it's more than capable of running a lot of games on max settings. The first game I decided to run was Bioshock Infinite, I managed to get up to like 60 FPS on ultra and some times it can dip to the 30s. That's not really where the main problem lies, I decided to test a few other games. I went on to Metro: Last Light with high hopes. I tried the game on Very High which is the max settings of the game. I started to get pretty poor FPS like below 40. So I decided to try it on LOW settings and the same problem occurred. So I thought to myself it could just be the game so I attempted Arma 3 Alpha... Same problem as Metro but a lot worse and when I press the recommended graphical settings on Arma 3 Alpha it puts everything to ultra so I'm sure I'm capable to run the game on at least some good settings, any help will be greatly appreciated I thank you for your time and thank you for reading this.

Specifications:

Video Card: XFX DD Radeon HD 7950
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.21ghz
RAM: 2x2GB Corsair Dominator
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
PSU: Coolermaster 620W
 
Yep, you're CPU-bottlenecked. Unfortunately your observations mean that the fastest your CPU can run Bioshock Infinite is 30-60fps and the fastest it'll run Metro: LL and Arma 3 is probably 20-40fps. Hoping your CPU is the Black Edition, because you can just bump the multiplier to about x38 with a hair more voltage, and you'll get better performance. Not much better, but a little. Best match for a $300-400 video card is only the newest i5 CPUs. Otherwise you're holding the GPU back.
 

MikeJ5

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My motherboard is a Gigabyte (GA-MA770T-UD3P REV:1.0) and I don't think that supports i5 Processors making the cost even more, are you sure there's nothing else I can do?

and my phenom is the black edition, yes.

I went on metro and played through a little of the game and I went on my CPU history and it was never in 100 percent usage, 90 percent max?