Hey all,
I was just looking for a quick analysis from someone to see if my system is bottlenecked somewhere. I feel like I should be getting slightly better performance with my new graphics card than I do.
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
GPU: MSI HD7950 Twin Frozr II (3GB)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
Hard Drive: Samsung 840 250GB SSD
PSU: APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL 680W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready Power Supply
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL
My first guess would be that my mobo is a bit lame, but it could also be my CPU choking my GPU? I'm considering upgrading to an AMD FX-8350.
I play a huge range of games, from MMOs, FPSes, strategy games, Sims 3, a heavily modded Skyrim, racing games, etc.
Thanks ahead of time!
Ryan
I was just looking for a quick analysis from someone to see if my system is bottlenecked somewhere. I feel like I should be getting slightly better performance with my new graphics card than I do.
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
GPU: MSI HD7950 Twin Frozr II (3GB)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
Hard Drive: Samsung 840 250GB SSD
PSU: APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL 680W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready Power Supply
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL
My first guess would be that my mobo is a bit lame, but it could also be my CPU choking my GPU? I'm considering upgrading to an AMD FX-8350.
I play a huge range of games, from MMOs, FPSes, strategy games, Sims 3, a heavily modded Skyrim, racing games, etc.
Thanks ahead of time!
Ryan