- Nov 11, 2013
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System:
CPU - AMD Bulldozer 4100
GPU - MSI R9 270x Hawk
RAM - 12gb Kingston Hyper Genesis X
HDD - 640gb Western Digital 7200rpm
SSD - OCZ Synapse Cache drive
MOBO - MSI 870a-G45 (FX)
PSU - XFX Core 750w
Windows 7 64bit
Caution lengthy question below!!!
I've posted on here before about upgrading my cpu, however I actually need to know if upgrading my cpu would improve frame rates on games. At the moment I seem to be getting lower frame rates on my new gpu (r9 270x hawk) than all the benchmarks suggest. However I've been digging around on the internets and apparently cpu's make very little impact on frame rates.
To break it down a bit for you my frame rate of bf4 is around 35fps on a 64man server... however I can adjust my settings from ultra to low and my frame rate stays the same. Cpu usage is around 80-90% while my gpu sits there at about 30% (peak 60%) to me this definitely says my cpu is struggling to cope while my gpu isn't even breaking a sweat.
On skyrim my frame rate is all over the place dropping to as low as 30fps on the intro sequence on ultra settings. This gpu should rinse through skyrim and cruise along at 60fps everywhere according to benchmarks.
Minecraft framerates are always above 60 however it still feels laggy. Again this says to me that the cpu is struggling.
Metro 2033 - runs at 60fps everywhere on dx11, very high 4x msaa as soon as some explosions or extensive effects show up it drops to about 40
Finally borderlands 2 seems to run poorly despite benchmarks saying that my gpu should be getting very high fps.
I think I've probably answered my own question here, yes I do think my cpu is causing a huge bottleneck, but as I said the internetz says the 4100 shouldn't be bottlenecking my card.
So is an upgrade in order or have I just wasted my money on a 270x that doesn't perform very well?
CPU - AMD Bulldozer 4100
GPU - MSI R9 270x Hawk
RAM - 12gb Kingston Hyper Genesis X
HDD - 640gb Western Digital 7200rpm
SSD - OCZ Synapse Cache drive
MOBO - MSI 870a-G45 (FX)
PSU - XFX Core 750w
Windows 7 64bit
Caution lengthy question below!!!
I've posted on here before about upgrading my cpu, however I actually need to know if upgrading my cpu would improve frame rates on games. At the moment I seem to be getting lower frame rates on my new gpu (r9 270x hawk) than all the benchmarks suggest. However I've been digging around on the internets and apparently cpu's make very little impact on frame rates.
To break it down a bit for you my frame rate of bf4 is around 35fps on a 64man server... however I can adjust my settings from ultra to low and my frame rate stays the same. Cpu usage is around 80-90% while my gpu sits there at about 30% (peak 60%) to me this definitely says my cpu is struggling to cope while my gpu isn't even breaking a sweat.
On skyrim my frame rate is all over the place dropping to as low as 30fps on the intro sequence on ultra settings. This gpu should rinse through skyrim and cruise along at 60fps everywhere according to benchmarks.
Minecraft framerates are always above 60 however it still feels laggy. Again this says to me that the cpu is struggling.
Metro 2033 - runs at 60fps everywhere on dx11, very high 4x msaa as soon as some explosions or extensive effects show up it drops to about 40
Finally borderlands 2 seems to run poorly despite benchmarks saying that my gpu should be getting very high fps.
I think I've probably answered my own question here, yes I do think my cpu is causing a huge bottleneck, but as I said the internetz says the 4100 shouldn't be bottlenecking my card.
So is an upgrade in order or have I just wasted my money on a 270x that doesn't perform very well?
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