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October 9, 2014 5:12:51 PM

Hey guys having sluggish graphic problems after upgrading to a better graphic card.
Here is my computer set up:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
AMD Radeon R9 280x graphic card
8GB G. Skill Ram
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45-UD3P
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FA 05/04/2009 Motherboard
500 GB Harddrive

I had a XFX HD-485X-ZDFC Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 video card in there before when I was playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms getting mid to high 20 FPS. Now with the R9 280x my FPS is unbearably slow worse than before, I cant even play the game. I have not really done anything other than downlaod the drivers for the new video card. Is there any BIOS settings I need to change? If so what? I am at a loss because this new card the R9 i thought would vastly improve my performance not the other way around. Appreciate the comments. Thanks.

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October 9, 2014 5:21:19 PM

It looks like you cpu is holding back you graphics card. The two are just two different from each other and the communication is poor. This is wat some people might refer to as a bottle neck, in this case your cpu is holding everything back
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October 9, 2014 5:22:29 PM

I'm inclined to say that your processor is heavily bottlenecking that GPU. The performance leap should be huge going from a 4850 to a 280x.
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October 9, 2014 5:23:48 PM

Its the CPU and MOBO, the graphics card is being bottlenecked by it, the cpu is just too slow for the gpu.
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October 9, 2014 5:25:27 PM

So a motherboard/cpu swap is in order? Recommendations? Also I dont know if I mentioned this but the mother board and ram is DDR2...does that make a difference?
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October 9, 2014 5:27:19 PM

imm2005 said:
So a motherboard/cpu swap is in order? Recommendations? Also I dont know if I mentioned this but the mother board and ram is DDR2...does that make a difference?


What would your budget be for the Mobo + CPU + RAM?
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October 9, 2014 5:29:42 PM

CHEAP!! LOL. I dont know the card set me back $175....all the other stuff I was given by a guy that upgraded his rig. Did I mention that I'm planning a wedding and raising a new born? Lol Cheap is the answer
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October 9, 2014 5:30:27 PM

imm2005 said:
So a motherboard/cpu swap is in order? Recommendations? Also I dont know if I mentioned this but the mother board and ram is DDR2...does that make a difference?


Yeah you need to do a full upgrade. If you dont want to blow all your money you should go amd with 8gb of ram (two stick 4gb @1600mhz). You should get the FX line of processors I think its in the AM3+ socket, so you should look for a mb with that, and the ram is not that important were you get it from as long as it had what I stated.
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October 9, 2014 6:33:14 PM

What about this....I have a ASUS GeForce GTX 560 laying around....will this give me better performance vs the xfx but not lag me down like the R9?
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October 9, 2014 6:37:46 PM

imm2005 said:
What about this....I have a ASUS GeForce GTX 560 laying around....will this give me better performance vs the xfx but not lag me down like the R9?


I would suggest you look for benchmark for the games you typically play, you are going to lose the perforance you wanted by getting the 280x, since thats an only card it may be better, but that comp is old and is in need to upgrade. You could probably wait till black friday and get better deals. For now you could check out what the 560 will do, but you might run into the same problems. That setup is just to old.
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