Low fps in games with 8350 and r9 290

Are you sure your CPU isn't throttling because it is overheating? I see you have your 212 EVO, but what are your temps getting to in Battefield 4?

Did you disable core c6 and those things I your motherboard? Also power management and that stuff, I had a fx 6300 oc to 4.6ghz and I was getting G better frames than you with a 660.

If you want to know of its your cpu bottlenecking, lower MESH quality to low and if fps boost it's your cpu.

10fps? that is not right, play everything on low and then set mesh quality to ultra, measure fps, then to high, measure fps, and so on till you hti low, you should see at least 40+ fps difference.

This is a cpu bottleneck. I got it with a 7950 and a 8320 at 4.6ghz. Download gpuz and monitor the gpu utilization while playing the game. My 7950 used to drop as low as 50%.

The FX-8350 is not that bad of a CPU. I can see it bottlenecking the R9 290, but not to the point of 10 FPS. But try overclocking and tell us the results.

CPU Bottleneck? Sounds like the classical case of the CPU being too slow to handle the GPU. Easiest way to confirm is to OC in steps, and see if FPS improves by a significant amount. If it does, then you have a CPU bottleneck.

BF4 is just buggy as hell. If you can run Crysis 3 fine it's not your CPU. I get dips into the 30s with my overclocked i5 3570k and hd7950. Just depends on map to map. Oddly enough I get a constant 60fps basically on Operation Locker even on 64man conquest 1080p ultra, I get a decent fps boost by turning off the msaa

Do you think it could possibly be a defective GPU? I don't know much on the technical side of GPUs or how to test them tbh, but yeah that's abnormal. I believe your r9 290 is equal to the gtx 780 from what I've read.

BF3 should certainly be getting better FPS than that. You have a pretty good motherboard, among the best for AMD so I doubt it's that. There have been many people coming here over time crying their CPU was being throttled but it ended up being a cheap sucky motherboard with no VRM heatsinks and a bad power phase, but that's not yours, yours is fine.

Hmmm.....does your CPU throttle at all if you use Prime 95? Just for the sake of it, check the health and performance ratings of your HDD using HDD Sentinel (free program)

After watching each video, I'm thinking, off those videos you posted, they're pretty normal. There will always be frames drops. I've had frames drops too when I'm looking toward stuff. I'd assume its cause of all the calculations and what not that the CPU/GPU would have to do. Sure it doesn't utilize the CPU and GPU 100%, but I'm not sure if it will utilize it 100%. I know with Battlefield 4 when I play, the cpu isn't 100% utilized, but my graphics card is more utilized than my CPU.

If you look at benchmarks, they're generally an average of frames taken over a period of time. The ones I relooked at from Anandtech, Tom's hardware, and what not, only show the average frames. I didn't see any that said the minimum frame reported. I found on bit-tech they put in the minimum frames, which your dx11 fps fits right into, granted that it is story mode compared to multiplayer.

When you stared at the sky, I'm thinking that there wasn't much to render other than just the sky, some clouds and the two planes flying around. Basically it's pretty bare and very easy for your graphics card to handle, thus the 130fps+ you were getting. The moment you looked down, you had more of the HUD on your screen, with all the arrows and stuff. And I'd assume they'd have more geometry being put into the scene, thus the more dramatic drop to 70fps. With the smoke rising up, the frames tanked another 10fps or so, down to ~60fps.

With battlefield 3, I think it's the same story. The drops are all related to where you're looking. They drop when you stare toward the field where most people are shooting each other, while it's relatively good when you're looking at somewhere less chaotic.

Of course, I could be wrong and it's actually something wrong with your system. But they look normal to me.

My suggestion: Just play with vsync on. If you have a 60Hz monitor, it's not gonna make a huge difference, cause the monitor won't go over 60fps anyways.

Again, I could be completely wrong. And this is just my thoughts so, take it as you will.

Here is what it might be:

- 1, your CPU is over-heating, that CPU is hot by itself and when OC'd it might reach high temperatures specially on load, EVO is a good Cooler, but for such CPU I'm not so sure.
- Might be wrongly installed, check it and re-mount it for safety.
- Check if you didn't apply Thermal Paste excessively.
- Try to speak with someone who has the same specs but runs a water cooler.

What's your PSU? Both the CPU and the GPU consume a lot, so if you don't have a good PSU, both might be bottlenecking, that GPU uses a lot of wattage, so the PSU might be sending most of is power to it, and slowing your CPU;
- Re-check your PSU wattage and post it here if possible or do some research by yourself

- Are you using the latest drivers? What's your OS? Both your CPU/GPU prefer windows 8.1, you get a slight boost in FPS compared to Windows 7.

- Viruses? Clean your PC up! xD

Well, it's not normal so low fps in BF4 specially with that hardware, and that game prefering the AMD setup...

Hope this was helpful, can't think of anything else...

Might as well be the PSU.
Just the GPU requires 750W, an OC'd FX8350 might be way too much wattage just for the 850W but then again, it's Corsair which is a viable brand... Just check it out in some wattage calculator.
Due a low wattage things might be getting bottlenecked.

It's not the power supply that's the problem. There's no way that the 8350 +r9 290 would use more than 850w without another r9 290 in crossfire. The 8350 + r9 290 combo would more likely use roughly around 550w power assuming stock settings on both cpu and gpu. On top of that, the OP is not getting 20fps or anything completely ridiculously low like that.