For a long time I was using an awful Radeon HD 5450 in my computer, I could barely run most games on minimum at 720p - I decided that I needed a new graphics card. So off I went to PC World, and I bought this R7 260X 1GB for £60. Having previously read reviews about this card, I was pretty excited about how much of a performance increase I would get out of it.
However, I got a very small increase in performance. Games that I could just about run at 720p were not playing very well at all, even on lowest settings, at 1080p. For example, BF3 runs at a whopping 15FPS at all times, when these benchmarks show the card to be running Ultra at 1440p, 10FPS higher than what I could achieve! Red Orchestra 2 does not run at all at 1080p, lowest settings, and Insurgency is just about unplayable.
So, I've decided that it must be my processor that is the problem. I understand that my Q8300 is a reasonably old chip, and it wasnt the most powerful of the Core 2 chips either, but I can't understand why it is bottlenecking so much!
In the near future I will be building this computer, using the same graphics card. How much of a performance increase will I see, taking games like BF3, Insurgency, War Thunder and Red Orchestra 2 at 1080p as a baseline?
Woody
However, I got a very small increase in performance. Games that I could just about run at 720p were not playing very well at all, even on lowest settings, at 1080p. For example, BF3 runs at a whopping 15FPS at all times, when these benchmarks show the card to be running Ultra at 1440p, 10FPS higher than what I could achieve! Red Orchestra 2 does not run at all at 1080p, lowest settings, and Insurgency is just about unplayable.
So, I've decided that it must be my processor that is the problem. I understand that my Q8300 is a reasonably old chip, and it wasnt the most powerful of the Core 2 chips either, but I can't understand why it is bottlenecking so much!
In the near future I will be building this computer, using the same graphics card. How much of a performance increase will I see, taking games like BF3, Insurgency, War Thunder and Red Orchestra 2 at 1080p as a baseline?
Woody