FPS drop in L4D and crysis warhead

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Sveti Petar

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I have Athlon ii x3 450, 8 gigs of ram, sapphire radeon 4870 on MSI 760 GM P23 FX motherboard. I wonder why do I get huge fps drops; in left 4 dead fps drops to 20 when there's an explosion, and in crysis warhead sometimes I get less than 15 fps. I know my configuration isn't much for newest games, but shouldn't I be able to play left 4 dead on stable 60 fps, and crysis on not less than 20 fps? Even if I turn AA off, lower the details, same thing happens. I checked the temp, it is OK, I disabled cool 'n' quiet and still same thing. Please help!
 
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Sveti Petar

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I do! Even tried reverting catalyst from latest 13.4 beta to 13.1, same thing. I tried everything I could think of. Could it be that my graphic card is dying and this is some kind of pre artifact state?
 
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Austin Durick

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I'm not completely sure, it could very well be the GPU. Has this started happening recently or has it been like this since you got the games? Because with your GPU you should be able to run both decently smoothly. And when this occurs what are the GPU and CPU temps at when the drops occur?
 
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Sveti Petar

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Before I had AsRock n68 VS3 UCC motherboard, didn't play l4d then, played crysis a little, it seemed to run smoothly, but wasn't watching fps then and wasn't playing long enough to notice. CPU temp doesn't go above 45 and GPU temp doesn't go above 80 now, so I guess temps are not the problem. But I was checking BIOS today and noticed this: http://s27.postimg.org/j6l08xe77/image.png
Is my 12V voltage to low? Could it in any way be relevant to the case? Thanks
 
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Austin Durick

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Not having enough voltage in the system could definitely be the issue. What Watt PSU do you have? Seems like after the new motherboard it just started to become too much for the system, send a picture of the stickers on the side of your PSU.
 
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Austin Durick

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Its definitely not your PSU (Unless its going bad, how long have you had it?), it has enough Wattage and Amperage to support your setup. Are you sure that your motherboard has the right PCI slot for your graphics card? I know a PCI 2.0 card will work in a 3.0 slot but there will be some performance issues.
 
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Austin Durick

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So you've had this graphics card in a PCI 2.0 for years and its had no problems? The only other problems I can see here is either the GPU is overheating or going bad from age. So if you were to buy a new Graphics card which I recommend since yours is getting dated and plugged it into the PCI 3.0 slot I think your issues would be solved. Or your Power supply is going bad.
 
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Your last option would be take the thing to the nearest Best-buy or other computer type store and have them take a look at it but it might cost a few hundred dollars to have them just to tell you whats wrong with it.
 
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