- Mar 17, 2013
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So I recently upgraded from a stock clocked 7950, to a 780. I knew going into it that my FX-6300 would be a pretty big bottle neck on some games, however I wanted to upgrade my graphics card before my CPU since i knew it would be more noticeable (which it was). Gaming on three monitors is much smoother, minus the Nvidea drivers which aren't nearly as convenient as AMD's.
Anyway I have my FX-6300 running at a stable 4.5, and in most games its perfectly fine. However in Far Cry 3 the CPU is a really noticeable bottleneck. I usually only play that game on a single monitor, and with the settings on ultra with 4xmsaa the gpu runs at around 65-80% usage while my cpu goes to 75-87%. Frame Rates are anywhere from 34-solid 60, but the dips are really obvious, and frequent. even if i drop the settings to high, and drop the msaa the CPU still keeps the frames stuttery. Another example would be Battlefield 3. On big servers the FPS will drop down to 45, sometimes 30 which is obvious and annoying. The 780 tears through both games, and the CPU stumbles through them.
I was wondering if there were any windows tweaks i can make to improve performance, considering that a higher overclock will overheat my CPU and freeze my computer. I heard someone talking about disabling core parking, but im not sure if that will help, or what that does. I spent about 575$ for the GPU and ram this Christmas plus a 3rd monitor, so it will be a while until i upgrade my cpu. When i do upgrade im going intel so that will be another 400$ or so. So is there anything i can do to improve performance, other than overclock more?
Thanks
Anyway I have my FX-6300 running at a stable 4.5, and in most games its perfectly fine. However in Far Cry 3 the CPU is a really noticeable bottleneck. I usually only play that game on a single monitor, and with the settings on ultra with 4xmsaa the gpu runs at around 65-80% usage while my cpu goes to 75-87%. Frame Rates are anywhere from 34-solid 60, but the dips are really obvious, and frequent. even if i drop the settings to high, and drop the msaa the CPU still keeps the frames stuttery. Another example would be Battlefield 3. On big servers the FPS will drop down to 45, sometimes 30 which is obvious and annoying. The 780 tears through both games, and the CPU stumbles through them.
I was wondering if there were any windows tweaks i can make to improve performance, considering that a higher overclock will overheat my CPU and freeze my computer. I heard someone talking about disabling core parking, but im not sure if that will help, or what that does. I spent about 575$ for the GPU and ram this Christmas plus a 3rd monitor, so it will be a while until i upgrade my cpu. When i do upgrade im going intel so that will be another 400$ or so. So is there anything i can do to improve performance, other than overclock more?
Thanks
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