So, I'm using a budget rig - HP p7-1254. This rig is used for general home use with some heavy slant on gaming. Mostly, I play WoW and perhaps a few other games here and there. The system isn't supposed to be the great end-all/be-all of gaming, but I like it to run as smoothly and effectively as possible.
My problem is, I'm trying to dump some easy money into pushing the system to the "max" potential while saving up for a better rig one day. I purchased a video card about a year or so ago - the Radeon HD 6670. This was a nice bump, it allows me to play WoW at "high" settings with a floating 30ish framerate. In a 25 man raid setting, I do find myself lowering my settings to "low" in order to make it through an encounter. But I found myself wanting a bit more from my rig.
I recently purchased/installed a new cpu - the A8-3670K (from the previous A6-3xxx). I also swapped in a 600 watt PSU (it was what I had easily available) in the event my upgrades needed the extra power (i'm very much a learning novice) and installed an SSD as a secondary Hard Drive. Finally, because this is an AMD Duel Graphics capable rig, I decided to link the new APU and GPU together for max effect.
All that said, my problem is simply - I don't notice any difference whatsoever in performance. Yes, the SSD does seemingly boot up WoW faster, but my settings aren't changing, my framerate in-game isn't changing, my other applications don't seem to be affected at all. I'm wondering if maybe I haven't set up my new pieces accordingly or if the money was just not well spent on my end. Like I said, I'm trying to push what I have to the top, then ride it out until I pick up a much better system later on.
I worry that perhaps I needed to do more in the BIOS, or perhaps I needed to set up something special inside the AMD Engine settings...thoughts?
Brian
My problem is, I'm trying to dump some easy money into pushing the system to the "max" potential while saving up for a better rig one day. I purchased a video card about a year or so ago - the Radeon HD 6670. This was a nice bump, it allows me to play WoW at "high" settings with a floating 30ish framerate. In a 25 man raid setting, I do find myself lowering my settings to "low" in order to make it through an encounter. But I found myself wanting a bit more from my rig.
I recently purchased/installed a new cpu - the A8-3670K (from the previous A6-3xxx). I also swapped in a 600 watt PSU (it was what I had easily available) in the event my upgrades needed the extra power (i'm very much a learning novice) and installed an SSD as a secondary Hard Drive. Finally, because this is an AMD Duel Graphics capable rig, I decided to link the new APU and GPU together for max effect.
All that said, my problem is simply - I don't notice any difference whatsoever in performance. Yes, the SSD does seemingly boot up WoW faster, but my settings aren't changing, my framerate in-game isn't changing, my other applications don't seem to be affected at all. I'm wondering if maybe I haven't set up my new pieces accordingly or if the money was just not well spent on my end. Like I said, I'm trying to push what I have to the top, then ride it out until I pick up a much better system later on.
I worry that perhaps I needed to do more in the BIOS, or perhaps I needed to set up something special inside the AMD Engine settings...thoughts?
Brian