Hardware advice needed!!

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

so basically i bought a pc to play bf4 on ultra settings (as i'm pretty much all for eye candy). I was led to believe that graphical performance came down to graphics card and processor. However when i compare my video results to benchmarks on youtube with the same graphics card i seem to get significantly lower results and the fps don't seem to stay at a constant level. Is it only those two components that affect graphical performance or do other ones do too?

My PC Specs:
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4670K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache

Motherboard ASUS® H81M-C: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)

Graphics Card 3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Power Supply CORSAIR 650W VS SERIES™ VS-650 POWER SUPPLY

IRyannHD · Mar 7, 2014

What resolution are you playing at, put the resolution scale down to about 120% (not the resolution the resolution scale) and remember BF4 is really buggy and people are having fps issues.

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

IRyannHD :

erm playing on 100% at 1400x900 with a refresh rate of 75hz, seems to be locked to 75 fps max (vsync is off) but plummets really hard sometimes.

could the motherboard be an issue?

geofelt · Mar 7, 2014

Benchmarks that are shown tend to be the better ones from Overclocked systems.
In your case, with a H81 based motherboard, you are leaving 20% cpu on the table because you can't overclock without a Z87 based motherboard.

IRyannHD · Mar 7, 2014

Not a motherboard issue, do you by any chance have gsync?

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

geofelt :

Awesome thanks for the info

So are you saying that a better motherboard is the way to go in this case if i want more fps out of this/ better stability?

IRyannHD · Mar 7, 2014

Have you downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers from the website not from Geforce Experience, always from the website, if not remove the old ones first, delete everything Nvidia under control panel>uninstall programs and use a driver sweeper as well before downloading the latest ones.

IRyannHD · Mar 7, 2014

jabbothehut :

Is it just BF4 fps drops, do you have any other GPU intensive games, do you get FPS drops on them, remember BF4 is buggy as hell and is not well optimized at all.

geofelt · Mar 7, 2014

jabbothehut :

A qualified yes. If lack of cpu power is holding you back, then a Z87 motherboard will let you oc from 3.4 to the 4.0-4.5 range. You will want a cooler too.
A back handed way to see how sensitive your games are to cpu speed is to reduce the cpu speed a bit and see how you do.
go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
set to 70% and see how you do.

IRyannHD · Mar 7, 2014

geofelt :

jabbothehut :

A qualified yes. If lack of cpu power is holding you back, then a Z87 motherboard will let you oc from 3.4 to the 4.0-4.5 range. You will want a cooler too.
A back handed way to see how sensitive your games are to cpu speed is to reduce the cpu speed a bit and see how you do.
go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
set to 70% and see how you do.

It could be that BF4 is extremely badly optimized... does he get drops in other GPU intensive games?

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

IRyannHD :

jabbothehut :

Is it just BF4 fps drops, do you have any other GPU intensive games, do you get FPS drops on them, remember BF4 is buggy as hell and is not well optimized at all.

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

erm yeah i have tomb raider 2013 and even though the card should run it with ease it still seems to struggle to keep it above 40fps

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

IRyannHD :

geofelt :

It could be that BF4 is extremely badly optimized... does he get drops in other GPU intensive games?

awesome thanks, gnna try that out then, oh even unparked the cpu's and still getting average results :/

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

IRyannHD :

erm yeah i have the gtx 780 but my monitor won't have it anyways because it's crap
should i just wipe my drivers clean and download the ones from the website?

jabbothehut · Mar 7, 2014

IRyannHD :

oops yeh been using the geforce experience

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