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Radeon 7870 question

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August 13, 2013 1:30:05 PM

So I went ahead and bought a Gigabyte Radeon HD7870 OC to 1100MHz from NCIX. Although I was looking at some of the benchmarks for the 7870 and I'm not sure I'm getting the framerate that I should be getting.

~~My System~~
CPU: I7 860 @ 2.8 GHz
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 600W
Motherboard : Intel DH55TC
Graphics: Radeon 7870 OC 1100Mhz
Ram: 8GB
HDD: 2x 500gb
Resolution: 1920x1080

So one of the most significant ones I noticed, was the Unigine Heaven benchmark. I saw one that said the radeon 7870 should be getting about 45-50 fps, although i'm getting 26.5fps on average. This is running everything on the highest settings as well. I'm not sure if maybe my processor is bottlenecking it, or something else is happening with the card. Other than that i've just noticed some minor lag in Skyrim on ultra although nothing big. And some pretty huge fps drop in crysis 3 on ultra, although i'm not sure what I should be getting in Crysis 3 on ultra. Going to be doing some more research on this while i wait for replies. Anyways, thanks in advance!

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August 13, 2013 4:03:41 PM

With crysis 3 you should be getting around 30fps maybe less because most benchmarks are run with high end computers. from what i have seen they run 6 core i7 processors and 16gb of ram so your results will always vary from the benchmarks but I don't think you cpu is necessarily holding you back or bottlenecking.
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August 13, 2013 4:52:59 PM

Ok, I just wanted to make sure everything seems ok with the new card.
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