I have an AMD FX 8320 running at 3.5 ghz, not overclocked. My graphics card is a GTX 660. When I run games (specifically Planetside 2 and Guild Wars 2) at high settings, not ultra, the fps always seemed to dip to 30, sometimes even 20 in bad cases. I've asked a few friends and all of them said that there should be no bottlenecking, but my other friends can run games at a higher fps than I can with processors that run at less ghz. What's the problem? Also, I have a stock cooler, and it's loud as hell if that means anything.
CPU might be bottlenecking but doesn't seem like it should
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You're definitely not bottlenecking at all with a CPU as good as that. Your problem isn't even related to the CPU at all in fact, the CPU doesn't have anywhere near as much of an effect on gaming as your graphics card does. You will need to lower your graphics settings a little bit or overclock your graphics card to get a good frame rate if it's lagging
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I don't want to be mean, but everything Hazy125 said was false. You are very much CPU bottlenecked, as you will see for yourself if you compare the CPU benchmarks with the GPU benchmarks. A nice overclock (change out that stock cooler!) would help to alleviate that bottleneck.
EDIT: Obviously that was for GW2. I'm not sure how many CPU cores PS2 is able to take advantage of. I know it takes a very heavy overclock on my 2500k to get it playable. I seem to recall some folks talking about disabling core parking to get it roaring on AMD 6- and 8-core CPUs; you might search around for info on that.
EDIT: Obviously that was for GW2. I'm not sure how many CPU cores PS2 is able to take advantage of. I know it takes a very heavy overclock on my 2500k to get it playable. I seem to recall some folks talking about disabling core parking to get it roaring on AMD 6- and 8-core CPUs; you might search around for info on that.
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I don't like doing this. Please refer to all of these threads, that CPU is too good to bottleneck a single GTX 660
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1764411/8320-bottle-neck.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1730374/8320-bottleneck-gtx-780.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1689210/amd-8320-bottleneck-gtx-770-2gb.html
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/62970-perfect-gpu-for-the-fx-8320/
In summary, if you don't feel like clicking all the links. No, your CPU does not bottleneck that GPU, meaning that the most prominent factor that is decreasing your FPS isn't the CPU. It is most likely the GPU as I said in my original post. That being said, of course overclocking components yield more FPS, that does not mean that a non-overclocked component is bottlenecking.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1764411/8320-bottle-neck.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1730374/8320-bottleneck-gtx-780.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1689210/amd-8320-bottleneck-gtx-770-2gb.html
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/62970-perfect-gpu-for-the-fx-8320/
In summary, if you don't feel like clicking all the links. No, your CPU does not bottleneck that GPU, meaning that the most prominent factor that is decreasing your FPS isn't the CPU. It is most likely the GPU as I said in my original post. That being said, of course overclocking components yield more FPS, that does not mean that a non-overclocked component is bottlenecking.
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None of those threads present any evidence (it's all hearsay) and none are relevant to the topic at hand anyway... whereas I'm giving my professional opinion (yes, professional) based on specific experience with these exact problems. The review I posted clearly shows that GW2 is CPU bottlenecked in OP's case.
Open task manager, Go to the performance tab, Click the Resource monitor button. Then on the new window go to the CPU tab. Leave this open. Also install MSI afterburner. Open Afterburner.. Then play GW2 or planetside two and check CPU and GPU usage on the resource monitor and afterburner. Should maybe give you an idea.
I tend to agree with cuecuemore though. Also in my experience just because a CPU has 8 cores doesn't mean its actually better. If a game only uses 4 cores then a higher rated quad core cpu will show better results.
I tend to agree with cuecuemore though. Also in my experience just because a CPU has 8 cores doesn't mean its actually better. If a game only uses 4 cores then a higher rated quad core cpu will show better results.
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http://translate.google.com/translate?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://pclab.pl/art50000-11.html
So yes, the 8320 is a bottleneck, in that a faster CPU gains more FPS. In addition, Planetside and Guild Wars both tend to favor strong/fast CPU cores, so AMD's architecture does not do well in either game.
So yes, the 8320 is a bottleneck, in that a faster CPU gains more FPS. In addition, Planetside and Guild Wars both tend to favor strong/fast CPU cores, so AMD's architecture does not do well in either game.
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