I built this rig a couple of years ago when I was on a pretty tight budget:
i3-2120 3.3Ghz
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870
8GB of RAM
Corsair 600w PSU
Windows 7 64-Bit
I know it is becoming pretty substandard, but when I built it, I was given the build by someone on these forums. They said that it would play pretty much anything at the time on at least medium settings. The problem is, it hasn't performed well at all since day 1.
I got away from PC gaming for a while, but I am trying to pick it back up. I would really like to get to the bottom of my problem. For instance, BF3 only gets about 10 fps even on low settings. The Witcher 2 does fine until I get into any kind of fight, which is when it drops to <10 fps. Even games as light as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare drop to an unplayable fps.
I run Razer Game Booster and have even tried optimizing the settings for all my games through AMD Gaming Evolved. All of my drivers are up to date and my computer is completely virus and malware free. I just don't understand. I have seen other people with the same build or even worse running the same games just fine. I even downloaded the 3dmark demo from steam and ran that. According to the tests that it ran, my rig is performing right on par with other rigs of a similar build, but when I actually try to play a game it lags so bad that I can't play.
I also just tried looking at my CPU usage during BF3 gameplay, and it is definitely my CPU that is bottlenecking me. It is completely peaking up to 100% usage. Remember, I have no other background processes going on. While I am well aware that I should be upgrading my CPU soon, I also know that it should be performing better than this based on the research I have done.
Please, if anyone has suggestions, I would be very grateful.
Thanks
i3-2120 3.3Ghz
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870
8GB of RAM
Corsair 600w PSU
Windows 7 64-Bit
I know it is becoming pretty substandard, but when I built it, I was given the build by someone on these forums. They said that it would play pretty much anything at the time on at least medium settings. The problem is, it hasn't performed well at all since day 1.
I got away from PC gaming for a while, but I am trying to pick it back up. I would really like to get to the bottom of my problem. For instance, BF3 only gets about 10 fps even on low settings. The Witcher 2 does fine until I get into any kind of fight, which is when it drops to <10 fps. Even games as light as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare drop to an unplayable fps.
I run Razer Game Booster and have even tried optimizing the settings for all my games through AMD Gaming Evolved. All of my drivers are up to date and my computer is completely virus and malware free. I just don't understand. I have seen other people with the same build or even worse running the same games just fine. I even downloaded the 3dmark demo from steam and ran that. According to the tests that it ran, my rig is performing right on par with other rigs of a similar build, but when I actually try to play a game it lags so bad that I can't play.
I also just tried looking at my CPU usage during BF3 gameplay, and it is definitely my CPU that is bottlenecking me. It is completely peaking up to 100% usage. Remember, I have no other background processes going on. While I am well aware that I should be upgrading my CPU soon, I also know that it should be performing better than this based on the research I have done.
Please, if anyone has suggestions, I would be very grateful.
Thanks
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