CPU Bottlenecks Video card?

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MisterBombastic

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i recently bought a 7950 OC and i appearently dont get the performace i should have in some or most games, can it be my i5 2310 bottlenecking the graphic card ? cpu usage has at max 90% but still, can it or is it bottlenecking especially on high demanding games such as metro last light?

SYSTEM: 700 WATT COOLER MASTER
2310 i5
ASROCK PERFORMANCE p67
2x 4 GB RAM corsair vengeance 1866
100% proper cooled hardware

Decent hard drive.





 
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Unolocogringo

Unolocogringo

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You should not be seeing any bottlenecks with that processor.
Now for the dumb questions.
Did you connect the monitor cable to the video card or is it still attached to the motherboard?
Did you install the graphics card drivers from AMD or did windows install it's generic driver?
 
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MisterBombastic

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no i have it on the graphic card and the graphic card is on the single 16x 2.0 pci , i have the newest drivers of amd and the old drivers are 100% fully removed. so my question is that what can be the cause of the lower performance then it should for example people with a better third generation cpu get 60 fps average on metro last light and i get average 40, for example, so is something bottlenecking, what cane be the cause of this problem i got?
 
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cmi86

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Is metro the only game you have issues ?? Metro is widely know to be almost unplayable on amd hardware without a patch and then the game plays just fine. I play it on an OC'd 7870 LE which is almost identical in performance to a 7950 and it get 60 fps most all the time with the settings basically cranked on the game.

That i5 is only 2.9 ghz so maybe it is possible you are getting some bottlenecking. run some gpu/cpu monitoring software next time you game and look for bottlenecks.

I also see that you are running 1866 RAM and intel states the max for that cpu is 1333 so you could have some weird mem timing issues with it being automatically downclocked that far, just a thought.
 
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jaguarskx

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The i5-2310 is not really bottlenecking the GPU. While the performance chart below does not include a 2nd gen Core i5 CPU, the 3rd gen Ivy Bridge Core i5 CPUs are only about 6% more powerful than Sandy Bridge CPUs. The difference in clock would account for a few extra frames, but a 2nd gen Core i5 CPU definitely would not bottleneck a powerful graphics card.

http://www.techspot.com/review/670-metro-last-light-performance/page6.html

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