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i7 950 Bottlenecking R9 290 ? Or Defective Card ?

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  • Intel i7
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November 18, 2013 2:42:47 PM

In Battlefield 4 on the Paracel Storm map I get Min 28 Max 81 Avg 45. Most people with this card is getting an average of 75 to 80 frames avg. Across the board and all games my frames are lower than they should be. Does anyone think that my CPU could be bottlenecking my card? Who is the car defective. Here are my specs: CPU i7 950 @ 4100, GPU R9 290, 12 gigs of RAM and Cooler Master 700w silent way PSU.

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November 18, 2013 3:18:28 PM

It shouldn't have a problem with the card at all.
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November 18, 2013 4:05:16 PM

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to RMA it.
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November 18, 2013 4:06:28 PM

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November 18, 2013 4:30:17 PM

why rma it? your getting low fps, thats hardly ever an issue with a faulty card. try other games. bf4 is known to have performance issues with lots of systems at the moment. Update drivers, what windows version are you using? what are the temps of your cpu/gpu under load, maybe something is throttling. and the 290 cards are known to run hot and throttle.
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November 18, 2013 4:35:27 PM

Before you send it back, test it out with proper benchmarks and other games. As mentioned, BF4 has a ton of issues. It is not the game to use as a judge of the cards capabilities.
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November 18, 2013 4:42:37 PM

I find this kind of stupid to RMA a card because you have an average of 45 fps in 1 map in BF4. Actually it's not kind of stupid, it is stupid.
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November 18, 2013 5:26:50 PM

Well, you are getting the FPS you are supposed to by this:


Your i7 is no faster than the Haswell i5 in this benchmark. It will vary from map to map and setting to setting choices. Even from location to location on the map. Air flow plays a fairly large role with that particular card.
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November 18, 2013 11:34:09 PM

Thanks bystander and iam2thecrow. I set up the RMA with Newegg but I'll see if I can cancel it. I did benchmark with other games like Metro Last Light, Unigine Heaven and Valley and the results seem to consistent with those of the reviews... Im on windows 8.1 and I've set the cards fan at or above 55% so that it doesn't throttle as much. Temps are at about 87 to 93. Thanks guys I really appreciate the help :) 
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