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Bought new gaming PC. Performance very lackluster.

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June 25, 2014 12:02:11 PM

My old rig was quite outdated:

Asus p5n e-sli mobo
4g RAM
intel q8600 2.6 cpu
gforce gtx 560 ti gpu
600w PSU

I started getting BSOD's constantly even in safe mode so I figured I would just go ahead and get a new PC.
So I upgraded to a very nice:

Intel BOXDH67BLB3 LGA 1155 mobo
8g Gskill sniper RAM @ 1333
750w PSU
Intel core i5 sandy bridge @ 3.3 ghz CPU
EVGA Geforce GTX 480 slightly OC'd
1 TB HD

First thing I did was load up 3 games to test my new rig out performance wise. These games were batman arkham city GOTY, Battlefield 3 and splinter cell blacklist. I had all 3 games at 1680x1050 resolution.

I was very surprised to see that basically all these games stayed between 20-30 FPS at high settings. A real letdown when my previous rig seemed to do the exact same. I also seem to hear the audio stuttering off and on accompanied by drops in fps. I have a realtek audio driver that was installed from the cd that came with the mobo.

Does anyone know whats wrong here? Did I waste 600$ on a new rig when I couldve just tried to identify what was wrong with my old one? I mean on paper shouldnt this new rig greatly out perform my old one?

Any help very much appreciated.

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June 25, 2014 12:17:28 PM

The reason you are seeing similar performance between your new and old pc is that the GTX 480 is only a small improvement over the GTX 560 TI. You're probably getting better frame rate from the 480 but maybe only by around 5-10 fps.

Also the sandy bridge i5's are relatively old and the performance difference between your new and old processors isn't actually that significant.

I think your better course of action would have been to just replace the CPU and MoBo in your old pc with one of the new Haswell i5's (such as the 4670/4670k) and kept the old GPU as that GPU upgrade really isn't worth it.
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June 25, 2014 12:26:16 PM

IrnMan said:
The reason you are seeing similar performance between your new and old pc is that the GTX 480 is only a small improvement over the GTX 560 TI. You're probably getting better frame rate from the 480 but maybe only by around 5-10 fps.

Also the sandy bridge i5's are relatively old and the performance difference between your new and old processors isn't actually that significant.

I think your better course of action would have been to just replace the CPU and MoBo in your old pc with one of the new Haswell i5's (such as the 4670/4670k) and kept the old GPU as that GPU upgrade really isn't worth it.



Well thats disheartening. All the side by side tests I checked out showed the 480 outperforming the 560 ti by a large portion. Maybe I need to look into over clocking this i5? Also the games default the settings a good bit higher than my last rig. The only problem is the performance is sub-par.
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June 25, 2014 12:41:08 PM

Overclocking might help a little, if you do it to both cpu and gpu you'll see an improvement in performance. Just make sure that you have adequate cooling. You may want to buy an after market cpu cooler as stock coolers aren't as effective when you overclock.
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July 10, 2014 10:44:31 PM

I don't want to be mean but you basically nailed every spec on your build BUT seriously underpowered the GPU :/ 

Don't know what to tell you, other than to go pick up a geforece gtx 760 or even a 750. :D 
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July 11, 2014 6:29:32 AM

IrnMan said:
The reason you are seeing similar performance between your new and old pc is that the GTX 480 is only a small improvement over the GTX 560 TI. You're probably getting better frame rate from the 480 but maybe only by around 5-10 fps.

Also the sandy bridge i5's are relatively old and the performance difference between your new and old processors isn't actually that significant.

I think your better course of action would have been to just replace the CPU and MoBo in your old pc with one of the new Haswell i5's (such as the 4670/4670k) and kept the old GPU as that GPU upgrade really isn't worth it.


SB i5's are still OK, and competitive with everything AMD has out there. But yeah, the GPU is 3 generations old at this point, and not much of an upgrade at all.
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