Gpu Leaching Causeing Bad Performance

Quadriladder

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Hi.

Ive sold one of my friends a couple PC's. He wanted to go from a r9 270x to a gtx980, and i asked him why and he said he was getting 20fps on standard settings on arma 3. I was playing Arma 3 at the time and getting a constant above 40-50 fps on very high with the only difference in the pc being that his has a amd fx-8320 and i have a i5 4590. There could not be such a huge difference with the same card but different cpu. He showed me taskmng and nothing was hogging resources and he updated the drivers, but nothing worked. Could it be a "leacher" program?

Thanks
 

HillWindstonChurch

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He sent me the temps and they where done at about 50 degrees celcius CPU and 60-70degres for the gpu. They both have the same power supply. Corsair vs550.
He has a asrock extreme3 970 and I got a gigabyte b85dh3
They are basically the same PC?

 
Ask your friend to double check the asrock extreme3 970 to see which one he got, because there are two version of them. The 1st version don't support the fx8320, cpu support list: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970%20Extreme3/?cat=CPU only the 970 Extreme3 R2.0 does. CPU support list: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970%20Extreme3%20R2.0/?cat=CPU

If he had the 1st version, we called that VRMs throttle. When he play the games the MB VRMs section will be overheat so that the MB may do somethings like underclock or even disable the core of the fx8320. That is why he got the lower fps. That is my best guess.

If he got that MB, buy other better AM3+ MB, like Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P, or Asus M5A97 R2.0.
 

HillWindstonChurch

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I can confirm that it is the R2 Version. But he did have it on the carpet i just found out so would that choke the psu enough to do this?
 

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