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all 6 cores not performing equally resulting in 45 fps in bf4 (1 core 75, the rest 50?)

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August 21, 2014 9:52:18 AM

Hey all
My question is based on the fact that on bf4 i get around 45 fps when looking at somewhere that has action or maybe its just when im looking at a alot of different things on screen. No graphic setting changes the fps. So cpu bottleneck right? Yes, but only one of my cores (i have 6) hits 75, the next highest is 65 sometimes 60.....but all the rest are on like 50? so im sure if i had the other 4 cores pushing equally or if they all roughly the same id hit my 60fps. Is there a way i can do this? Im thinking maybe i have to disable all power settings? but if its one setting that i can change this id rather know about it :) 
Thanks for looking

i have an fx6300 which was stable at 4.4 but dont now because for some reason with my 970 gig mobo, when you disable turbo it causes the system to boot for 1 second 2 or 3 times before it acuallty boots. This makes me paranoid about possibly affecting the machine.
280x, 8 gig, windows 7

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August 21, 2014 10:02:40 AM

Technically its a 3core CPU with 2 threads per single core. Have you tried unparking your CPU for better preformance
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August 21, 2014 10:03:51 AM

Cores rarely ever scale evenly in games. That's just the way it is. FPS drops while in heavy action scenarios is perfectly normal, and is most likely a GPU bottleneck. If you had a stronger GPU you would have higher frames in those scenarios.
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August 21, 2014 10:33:54 AM

sincreator said:
Cores rarely ever scale evenly in games. That's just the way it is. FPS drops while in heavy action scenarios is perfectly normal, and is most likely a GPU bottleneck. If you had a stronger GPU you would have higher frames in those scenarios.


I forgot to mention that my gpu usage didnt even go past 60% whilst i had 45 fps hence why i knew it was cpu related
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August 21, 2014 10:35:44 AM

firo40 said:
Technically its a 3core CPU with 2 threads per single core. Have you tried unparking your CPU for better preformance


no, maybe il have a look, is there a way i can unpark when i want to with ease? Dont really want to have it unparked all the the time
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August 21, 2014 11:04:05 AM

This is normal. In BF4, two threads do most of the work (The main engine thread, and the primary render thread), about 12 or so threads do a little work, and the remaining 30 or so do almost no work. So you typically see the core that runs the main thread doing significantly more work then the other cores.

This is also why AMD does worse the Intel in games; those two heavy threads are the primary drivers of performance, and when the CPU struggles with them, it doesn't matter how many other cores you have.
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August 21, 2014 11:40:35 AM

karlos24 said:
sincreator said:
Cores rarely ever scale evenly in games. That's just the way it is. FPS drops while in heavy action scenarios is perfectly normal, and is most likely a GPU bottleneck. If you had a stronger GPU you would have higher frames in those scenarios.


I forgot to mention that my gpu usage didnt even go past 60% whilst i had 45 fps hence why i knew it was cpu related


You may be right then. Overclocking should help in this case then, but you may need a new motherboard that is better suited for overclocking. Look to a 990fx series motherboard.

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