How does ram affect framerate?

jf96125 · Oct 30, 2013

I am wondering why my framerate is lower than i think it should be. I am playing on an hp envy.
my specs
3.7 ghz a10 6700,
12 gb ram
Geforce GTX 780
I'm wondering why, even on low to medium settings, i rarely get framerates over 60 when i play games like borderlands 2? is it my ram? Or could it be that my motherboard only has pci 2.0, which would limit the graphics performance?

Dleslie212 · Oct 30, 2013

Its not the ram, and not the 2.0 slots. It probably has something to do with your video card drivers. Have you ever tried re-installing the driver?

bystander · Oct 30, 2013

What resolution do you play at?

You have a very slow CPU, which will bottleneck a 780 quite often and probably is the reason for the low FPS. I'm not certain how the A10 measures up exactly, compared to these other chips, but the AMD APU's are weak on the CPU side of things and it seems Borderlands 2 likes a fast CPU by the looks of this chart.

Cons29 · Oct 30, 2013

try installing afterburner or something. check your utilization (cpu and gpu)
maybe it's a temp issue? throttling down the gpu maybe? or psu?

Quaddro · Oct 30, 2013

check your gpu interface with gpu-z..

in bus interface, it should be written PCI-E 3.0@16 3.0

if it's not, then remove your card, clean the golden bridge connector, and re seat it again..

Mopkap · Oct 30, 2013

Yeah as the other guys have said, your PC is fine! It's probably just crap drivers. Make sure that all your drivers and Windows software are up to date. You might want to run a virus scan incase there's something else dropping your framerate. Also, you should check if there are any random things opening at startup, and you should perform a disk cleanup & defragment.

Dleslie212 · Oct 30, 2013

Quaddro :

He says his board only supports 2.0, not 3.0

caj · Oct 30, 2013

install the latest drivers. Most prob ur physx is turned on is impacting ur gameplay. what resolution do you game on btw?

Quaddro · Oct 30, 2013

Dleslie212 :

okay, then in bus interface, it should be written PCI-E 2.0@16 2.0

2.0 and 3.0 pcie version actually give you almost same result..
because none of graphics card that available today can utilize all of pci-e 2.0 bandwith..

gamerk316 · Oct 30, 2013

3.7 ghz a10 6700

That's the problem. No idea why everyone else is going off on a tangent here. AMD's Trinity chips are NOT for gaming.

jf96125 · Nov 17, 2013

Thanks for all the advice. Sounds like i need to change cpus. I guess i know what I'm asking for for Christmas.

jf96125 · Nov 17, 2013

caj :

I play with everything on high. And i do have the physx on so that is probably dropping it a bit too. But looking at the stats for the 780, I think the majority of the issue is probably the cpu since i have the latest drivers

jf96125 · Nov 28, 2013

So if I were to invest in an i7 4770k, would that let my gpu run closer to 100%?

jf96125 · Dec 2, 2013

What about an amd vishera processor? would one of the 4+ ghz 8 core processors do the same?

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