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After change of motherboard my GPU is bottlenecked

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March 10, 2014 2:18:56 AM

Hi everyone, I do have a kinda big problem with my Graphics card. Few months ago, i decided to change my motherboard, but i didnt had enough money to change my cpu and ram too, cause im still using DDR2 RAM and AM2 cpu (Athlon 64 X2 5200+). So i bought Asrock 960GC-GS FX, it looked like a great idead because in future, i could buy new AM3+ cpu with DDR3 RAM without a new motherboard. But now to my problem: Installation was successful and almost everything is running great.
The main problem is: after change of the motherboard: my cpu is bottlenecking my GPU. Weird thing is that in my old motherboard it was running great. Now when i try to play some games my GPU is always running on 50-70% usage only, and thats really annoying because its a GT 630 and its not a high end card at all. Dont know why is this happening but its in every game. In multiplayer its the worst. I tried maxed out games and put a crazy Antialising like a 16QCSAA but even that does not help. Still cant get higher than 90% usage.
Tried OCed the cpu, it helped a little bit, but still its not it.

Does anyone know what happened and how can i fix it ?

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March 10, 2014 8:12:29 AM

Don't see an issue here aside from an old CPU and a slower video card. I don't think my computers ever went to high usage for CPU in games.
It's not a sign that anything is wrong.

Is the performance the same with this motherboard in benchmarks?
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March 10, 2014 8:28:54 AM

hang-the-9 said:
Don't see an issue here aside from an old CPU and a slower video card. I don't think my computers ever went to high usage for CPU in games.
It's not a sign that anything is wrong.

Is the performance the same with this motherboard in benchmarks?


Well, that depends on the game, but most of the time.. No it isnt. With the old motherboard my GPU was always running at 99% of usage which means higher framerate for me. But now when its running only about 50-80% of usage the framerates are significantly lower.
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March 10, 2014 8:45:46 AM

Did you check the actual frame rates or just the CPU usage? You can check for a BIOS update for the motherboard. This may be something you need to check with the motherboard vendor with, although you also would have needed new chipset drivers and all the other drivers as well. It may be a factor of one of those new drivers doing something different.
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March 10, 2014 8:53:37 AM

hang-the-9 said:
Did you check the actual frame rates or just the CPU usage? You can check for a BIOS update for the motherboard. This may be something you need to check with the motherboard vendor with, although you also would have needed new chipset drivers and all the other drivers as well. It may be a factor of one of those new drivers doing something different.


Yes i checked both, in every game I am playing i do have MSI Afterburner turned on. And i already do have the newest bios (v. 1.40)

*Edit: I just realized that i didnt reinstalled windows when i changed the motherboard, could it be the problem ?
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March 10, 2014 9:36:45 AM

mORTcube said:
hang-the-9 said:
Did you check the actual frame rates or just the CPU usage? You can check for a BIOS update for the motherboard. This may be something you need to check with the motherboard vendor with, although you also would have needed new chipset drivers and all the other drivers as well. It may be a factor of one of those new drivers doing something different.


Yes i checked both, in every game I am playing i do have MSI Afterburner turned on. And i already do have the newest bios (v. 1.40)

*Edit: I just realized that i didnt reinstalled windows when i changed the motherboard, could it be the problem ?


It's a bit unusual that it's even working properly without a full re-install, you really should do that. The only time the system will boot properly is if the chipset is similar, otherwise you'd get a no windows error, or a blue screen when loading windows.
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