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Finndog703

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Hi All,

Having used consoles for gaming since the 1990's I've now got into PC racing games like R Factor 2. I got a new PC about a year ago and I'm now I'm thinking about possibly upgrading some the of the components to increase performance.

I'm currently getting around 35fps on a tripple screen set up when using RFactor 2 on medium settings.

My current set up is detailed below and as newbie would welcome any advice on the best upgrades without breaking the bank.

Thanks

finn.

CIT 750 WATT DUAL 12V RAIL 120MM SILENT POWER SUPPLY

AMD FX 4100 3.6 GHZ QUAD CORE BLACK EDITION CPU UNLOCKED

8GB DDR3 1600MHZ FAST MEMORY (16GB MAX)

GIGABYTE 78LMT-USB3 MOTHERBOARD

HD7850 2gb GRAPHICS CARD
 
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bigwoofer
You're sort of on a plateau, moving forward for even an incremental improvement may be a pretty big leap. It's not worth upgrading your Processor according to Tom's CPU performance chart, there's NO AMD proc 3 tiers above yours :)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Looks like there is however opportunity on the video card side. While there are a few selections 3 tiers higher, running triple screens may limit you to the Radeon side. I'm not sure if nVidia does that (yet)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

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bigwoofer

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You're sort of on a plateau, moving forward for even an incremental improvement may be a pretty big leap. It's not worth upgrading your Processor according to Tom's CPU performance chart, there's NO AMD proc 3 tiers above yours :)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Looks like there is however opportunity on the video card side. While there are a few selections 3 tiers higher, running triple screens may limit you to the Radeon side. I'm not sure if nVidia does that (yet)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

 
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While the usual recommendation is to jump 3 tiers, I believe you would notice a singnificant
performance increase if you jumped the two tiers avail on the CPU, and went to a hd7970 GPU.
That's the route I'd go with, doesn't look like your mobo supports CF, so adding another 7850
isn't an option. Considering you don't have to upgrade your PSU and you can afford the stronger CPU
and a 7970, I'd do it.


 
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Finndog703

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I’m having problems installing a powercolor HD 7970 graphics card and would welcome any advice.

Here’s what I did.

Uninstalled my previous graphics card driver via device manager.

Took out old graphics card and then installed new one. I also Switched monitor cable to computer connector.

Tried installing new driver via AMD website and it kept getting 75% through installation and then crashing.

I then uninstalled everything via the AMD website and then reinstalled but the same thing happened where went to a blue screen which disappeared after few seconds but said make sure I have enough storage or check driver.

I then did a custom install and didn’t install the audio driver. This time it got to the end but it had installed with errors and it gave me an error report which I listed below.

I’m not sure what stage I’m at now as I had to leave for work, thinking it might be a driver conflict?

Thanks
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<ssvid>0x0000</ssvid>
<classcode>0x060000</classcode>
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</device>
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<manufacture>Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.</manufacture>
<chiptype></chiptype>
<chipid>0x1605</chipid>
<vendorid>0x1022</vendorid>
<ssid>0x0000</ssid>
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</dcm>
<exist>
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<description>AMD Catalyst Install Manager</description>
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</package>
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<result></result>
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</exist>
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<description>AMD Catalyst Install Manager</description>
<result>Succeed</result>
<version>8.0.915.0</version>
<size>20 </size>
</package>
<package>
<description>Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86)</description>
<result>Succeed</result>
<version>10.0.30319</version>
<size>9 </size>
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<description>Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x64)</description>
<result>Succeed</result>
<version>10.0.30319</version>
<size>9 </size>
</package>
 
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