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Very low FPS across all games depite new hardware

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May 24, 2014 2:24:09 AM

Hi with my previous setup I had been getting extremely low FPS even in rather old games: 30 FPS in WoW etc, max 35-40 FPS in new games. Which dropped to a crawl in 25 man raids and other hardware intensive games. So I decided to try and upgrade. I went from this :

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD7770 GHz Edition OC 1GB GDDR5 (11201-02-20G)
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Intel Z77 Ivy Bridge Motherboard
Intel Core i5 3470 Ivy Bridge 3.20Ghz 6MB 77W LGA1155
Corsair CMD16GX3M2A1600C9 Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 CL9
Corsair HX Series HX1050 V2 1050W Modular Power Supply 80Plus Gold

TO THIS

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD7770 GHz Edition OC 1GB GDDR5 (11201-02-20G)
ASUS Maximus VI Gene Intel Z87 mATX Haswell LGA1150 Motherboard
Intel Haswell Core i7 4770K 3.50GHz 8MB LGA1150
Corsair CMD16GX3M2A1600C9 Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 CL9
Corsair HX Series HX1050 V2 1050W Modular Power Supply 80Plus Gold

I installed a brand new hardrive OS to rule out software issues. I still received very low FPS. None of this has been overclocked but I wouldn't think I would have to to get good performance in video games with this setup? I also tried individually switching out the RAM, GPU, and PSU (with slightly older spare parts) to test any hardware faults but still receive very low performance. The only thing I haven't really switched out would be the case, but I don't see how that could affect performance.

As far as I can see the only options would be that I don't know how to properly set up new hardware; or I am getting some extreme bottlenecking that prevents me from playing even unintensive video games optimally, or I need to overclock my system to make it remotely useful.

I'm no tech wizard so if it seems like it's obvious I still want to hear it. One thing I can say is that iv'e checked that all drivers were up to date several times. I really don't think it's a software issue, but an annoying (and expensive) issue nonetheless.

Thanks so much for your help.

EDIT : CPU-Z data during idle


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May 24, 2014 2:59:21 AM

you have actually not upgraded at all in gaming performance. the cpu upgrade is barely noticeable in games.
and you did not get a new gpu i see.
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May 24, 2014 3:07:09 AM

Plusthinking Iq said:
you have actually not upgraded at all in gaming performance. the cpu upgrade is barely noticeable in games.
and you did not get a new gpu i see.


So you would say that the cpu is causing an issue here? Or the gpu? I'm not exactly trying to run battlefield 4 on ultra at 80fps so it just seems strange to me.

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May 24, 2014 3:10:09 AM

You need to upgrade your gpu - that was the only thing holding you back in the first place. I would recommend getting at least a gtx 760 or r9 280 (or 280x).

The i5-3470 was already a more than capable cpu for any game, but you can't go wrong with an i7-4770k.
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May 24, 2014 3:40:09 AM

Ehm... Your old CPU wasn't holding you back at all. :s Nor was your motherboard.

The weakest part was, and still is, your graphics card. :( 
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May 24, 2014 2:11:21 PM

fudoka711 said:
You need to upgrade your gpu - that was the only thing holding you back in the first place. I would recommend getting at least a gtx 760 or r9 280 (or 280x).

The i5-3470 was already a more than capable cpu for any game, but you can't go wrong with an i7-4770k.


Ok thanks, I took your advice and ordered the gtx 760, ill let you know what kind of performance increase I get.
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May 24, 2014 4:38:19 PM

Don't order the gtx 760 2gb gddr5 version. People say is more than capable but its not. Go straight to the 780 3gb/4gb or the 760 4gb version
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May 24, 2014 8:03:20 PM

sinson said:
Don't order the gtx 760 2gb gddr5 version. People say is more than capable but its not. Go straight to the 780 3gb/4gb or the 760 4gb version
Alright I went ahead and ordered the 780 3gb. Is there anything bottlenecking my system now? The only thing I would consider upgrading now would be the ram if it wasn't fast enough, but I'm not that knowledgeable about ram speeds at all.

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May 25, 2014 2:46:58 AM

Oh, the gtx 760 may have been enough, but I was just saying that you should at least get that. I wasn't really sure what fps/quality you were aiming for. But the gtx 780 is a much better card anyways. You shouldn't be running into any real bottlenecks now.
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