Is my motherboard bottlenecking my cpu/gpu?

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SexyTruckDriver

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Hey guys I was just wondering If my motherboard is slowing down my max pc performance.

Parts list:
1.cpu=Amd fx 6300 black edition

2.gpu= Nvidia gtx 960 ssc.

3.Ram= CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9B

4.motherboard= Gigabyte AM3+ AMD DDR3 1333 760G HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Motherboard GA-78LMT-USB3

5.Hardrive=1tb western digital
 
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SexyTruckDriver

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I am experiencing a lack of performance.. For instance. Dying light gets very low frame rates on low-medium settings. Far cry 4 cannot be run on medium settings without lag. I've seen reviews of this card and I've seen it run far cry 4 on high to ultra with 50-60 fps. I'm just confused as to why its having trouble running games on higher settings. Will turning off Anti- aliasing help with performance?
 
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:| It's ok man...I understand you completely...

I have an FX 6300 powered with R9 280
And I was supposed to get 60 to 50 FPS on far cry 4; when in reality I get 30~50 on much lower resolution with some setting turned off. I am just completely lost and clueless....

Try to update your drivers (see if there is a windows update as well), check if there are some background programs running which could potentially rob you out of memory and CPU usage (yeah I was that desperate)....
I guess everyone IS different. Even when it comes down to components....\



P.S.

I even saw someone on youtube with the exact build as I have (even the same manufacturer [Sapphire]) and even he got 50~60 FPS on ultra with 1080p resolution...
 
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NightAntilli

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For Far Cry 4, start task manager, then start the game.
Alt+Tab to Task manager, right click the Far Cry 4 process, and then select affinity. Disable CPUs 1 and 3 and see how it performs then. If it's still bad, disable CPU 5 also.

Try the same for Dying light.
 
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What does that do? Cuts in half my Six core CPU so that workload wont be divided? Or is it to pinpoint which CPU core is giving trouble? Please explain
 
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NightAntilli

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Ok. So... The FX CPUs have two cores on one module right? The module has a single FP scheduler that both cores share. FarCry4 is one of those games that scrambles the FP scheduler and lets the cores compete with each other, which causes bad performance. By disallowing the game to use the second core on the same module, you disable one of the cores for the game, so that only one core can use the FP scheduler.

Programs in the background can still use the other cores. So you're not actually disabling anything. You're simply limiting only the game to not use everything and let the cores compete with themselves.
 
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To follow-up on what I said previously, look at this chart, and notice that an FX-4xxx is faster than an FX-6xxx or FX-8xxx. This simply means that more cores will actually drop performance in the game. So disabling two cores for the game, leaving you with 4, should increase your performance...

CPU_01.png



Admittedly, Dying Light does not directly show the same issue, but it's worth trying anyway. The FX-4xxx beats the FX-6xxx in it, but loses to the FX-8xxx.
 
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