My graphics card is not giving the fps in games it should.

Griffsbrown

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Helpful info: My build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Griffsbrown/saved/fTRkcf
My graphics card if it helps:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131467


So since I got the graphics card I have been decently happy with the fps (compared to the integrated graphics on the cpu) but I have always since day 1 had friends with much worst graphics cards get much better fps then me. League of Legends is the main game I play and I get about 100 fps on max settings when the match starts (and nothing is happening) mid game I get around 60 to 80 and in the middle of a team fight I get around 30 to 40. Keep in mind this is maxed out settings. I have a 3 friends with gtx 650 and all of them can get around 200 fps compared to my 100. It's the same way in mine craft and in most games. Why did I pay more money for graphics card (almost 100$ more) and I am getting significantly worse fps because of it. I have dealt with it for this long but I am getting tired of it and I am wondering if you any of you guys know what would cause a low fps in my build. Also I don't know if how hot it gets would have any impact on the performance but it gets really hot in there. I have like 5 fans but it never seems to be enough. But that's an issue for another thread. Just felt like mentioning here in case it makes a big difference. Anyways thanks for reading to this point and any help would be awesome.
 

Traciatim

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Do your friends also have a low powered CPU? LoL, Minecraft and similar games generally rely on high single threat throughput, which is something that AMD CPUs generally are very poor at.

One test you could try is turn play the game with your current settings with no antialiasing and record your frame times and min/max/average frames with something like FRAPS. Play some rounds and average the results. Then do the same thing with AA stuff cranked way up, make sure you do teh same numebr of rounds at least, but do more than just a few since multiplayer games change every round so you want enough to gte a good average rather than just one or two where whatever happens in teh game could affect the results more than the AA settings.

If you notice that the AA rounds the Min/Max/average all drop by a similar percentage (say they all drop by 25%) you can pretty nmuch say that your video card is the cause of the slow downs. If however the drop happens to only your max/average, but the min stays pretty much teh same then you can conclude that during times where your frame rate is slow that something else is causing the problem (which is likely your CPU).