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September 15, 2014 10:47:55 PM

Am I bottlenecking and how do I stop it

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September 15, 2014 11:06:56 PM

no, you are fine.
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September 16, 2014 12:51:53 AM

OK so why are my bench scores so much lower than other 780s without oc my specs are as said and fx 9590@4.7ghz evga gtx780 hyperx fury8gbram @1866 Asrock990fx extreme3 mobi thermal take tpg 1200w windows8.1 x64
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September 16, 2014 1:24:24 AM

Please provide the game and your FPS on what settings. That will be great information for us.
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September 16, 2014 3:09:24 AM

Well I was using unigine valley on extremhd as said above min fps of 24 and Max 64 and score of 1350 but team fortress2 for instance is getting average of 200 whereas a friend with a much older and less powerful card is getting the same
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September 16, 2014 3:26:26 AM

Team fortress is more CPU bound. Does your friend have a Intel CPU? If so, thats likely the reason for his higher FPS.
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September 16, 2014 3:49:55 AM

As RobCrezz mentioned, TF2 is more inclined onto the CPU side, not the graphics card section.

As for Unigine Valley, it is a GPU intense game.
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September 16, 2014 5:21:23 AM

No he is using an old i5 I think mine is a 4.7 8core so that shouldn't be an issue surely
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September 16, 2014 5:22:48 AM

Would you recommend that I bench my CPU then and see if that's firing on all cylinders then
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September 16, 2014 5:25:34 AM

angusshayes said:
No he is using an old i5 I think mine is a 4.7 8core so that shouldn't be an issue surely


Yeah its probably that the i5 runs this game faster. AMD cores are much weaker than Intel cores, and TF 2 isnt multithreaded really being and old game.
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September 16, 2014 6:47:50 AM

angusshayes said:
Well I was using unigine valley on extremhd as said above min fps of 24 and Max 64 and score of 1350 but team fortress2 for instance is getting average of 200 whereas a friend with a much older and less powerful card is getting the same


"Bottlenecks" occur on a game-by-game basis. Some games, even some newer ones, are so heavily GPU-bound that they don't even care about your processor after a certain point. Some games are CPU-bound no matter what you have. As a practical concern, bottlenecking across the board is a myth… it just depends on the varying workloads each game puts on your components.

Team Fortress 2 is an aging Source engine game, you can run that on nearly anything. Unigine Valley is designed as a GPU stress test, and your CPU is likely a very minor factor in your performance there unless you're running Prime95 at the same time.
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September 16, 2014 6:54:37 AM

OK but I should still be seeing better results on the GPU in things like unigine. Any ideas on that end
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September 16, 2014 7:01:10 AM

Yeah that is a very low score for that card.

Check your CPU temps when running games/unigine. It might be throttling performance.

Although unigine is very GPU heavy, if your CPU is running slow then it will still bottleneck performance.
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September 16, 2014 7:01:30 AM

angusshayes said:
OK but I should still be seeing better results on the GPU in things like unigine. Any ideas on that end


Are you watching your temperatures and clock speeds during the benchmark? Maybe your 780 is getting too hot and throttling down. A lightweight game like TF2 would put the GTX 780 to sleep if you had some kind of framerate cap in use. Additionally, your 220 W processor is probably pretty hard to keep cool. Check that as well.

Do you play any other games, perhaps more intensive ones like Crysis 3 or Metro: Last Light or whatever? How does it behave there?
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September 16, 2014 11:18:20 AM

My GPU is running quite cool usually 32° - 50 under heavy load according to evga precision x but my CPU is usually around 50 according to hardware ID but I have read that this is not always acurate
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September 16, 2014 11:22:07 AM

I have played metro last light and I was on about 11 fps average had to turn graphics down to normal physx off an ssaa off aa down to 2x I think and then it ran at about 50 - 60 fps
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September 16, 2014 11:27:54 AM

What resolution are you running?
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September 16, 2014 11:41:49 AM

1360 by 768
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September 16, 2014 11:47:12 AM

More than likely thats your problem the resolution is holding your system back. My friend has an 8350 and a 780 and plays on 1600x900 and was getting lower frames than his 450 sli. But when he went to 1080p his frames dramatically increased. Your resolution doesn't require that much power so your components aren't working at their max potential. Is there any way you can try on 1080p monitor or tv?
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September 16, 2014 11:58:32 AM

I am actually running it on a TV I'll change it now and see what happens
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September 16, 2014 12:36:42 PM

Wow increase of 500 on unigine score 1800 + Dominirican you have solved my problem you wonderful human being
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September 16, 2014 12:42:17 PM

np man anytime enjoy
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