Possible CPU Bottleneck
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glamdringfh
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Hi Javantae,
The FX8150 should be able to handle the R9 290 without a bottleneck.
If you want to be sure try and monitor both your CPU and GPU usage while gaming, but those two pieces of hardware are well paired.
The FX8150 should be able to handle the R9 290 without a bottleneck.
If you want to be sure try and monitor both your CPU and GPU usage while gaming, but those two pieces of hardware are well paired.
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jkhoward
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Yes, for example, Battlefield isn't affected by this as the game is designed to use up to 8 processing cores whereas World of Warcraft only uses 3. So it really comes down to the game, but today, most games, including MMO only uses 3-4 cores where it could indeed bottleneck the graphics card.
well right now I'm playing blade and soul Taiwan in the beginning area my fps was fine it was around 70-110+ at all times but now when I'm in the open world it's around 30-60 very rarely will it go up past 65+ even with no one is around me. I've tried messing with the in-game settings didn't see any improvements even when i turned the settings all the way down. I also tried catalyst control center and I didn't notice any visual / graphical performance, and I even turned Tessellation on x64 just to see if it gave me horrible lag which it didn't.
fatboytyler
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Make sure your games also play nice with AMD graphic cards. I know in WoW my overclocked R9 280x with an i5 @ 4.2GHz was outdone by a stock GTX 650 Ti on a stock AMD FX6300.
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As far as MMOs go, Guild Wars 2 is actually pretty well optimized for multicore CPUs. But the render pipe is still bound by a single thread. And The 8150 is worse than the 8320 or 8350 in per core performance.
The 8150 will OC quite well, but still be a little slower then the 63xx or 83xx series.
You could get by with an FX 6300 or 6350, good cooling and a good OC. Would be a good compromise to improve performance without spending a lot on a new Intel Board, CPU and RAM. But in the end, an Intel setup is generally going to be about 5-10 FPS faster overall in GW2.
Here's a reference example from a recent build I did for a friend. FX 6350 OCd to 4.6 GHz and an R9 280.
Note: This is performance while recording with MSI Afterburner. It's better while just playing.
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M0AAdaArIo"][/video]
The 8150 will OC quite well, but still be a little slower then the 63xx or 83xx series.
You could get by with an FX 6300 or 6350, good cooling and a good OC. Would be a good compromise to improve performance without spending a lot on a new Intel Board, CPU and RAM. But in the end, an Intel setup is generally going to be about 5-10 FPS faster overall in GW2.
Here's a reference example from a recent build I did for a friend. FX 6350 OCd to 4.6 GHz and an R9 280.
Note: This is performance while recording with MSI Afterburner. It's better while just playing.
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M0AAdaArIo"][/video]
fatboytyler
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This may be true now. I haven't tested it in a while, but back in the Cataclysm days and prior this was not the case.
I would still imagine that 3 cores on the 8150 wouldn't be a bottleneck though would it? Sure its not an i5 or 8350, but its not that bad is it?
jkhoward
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So the reason I know this about World of Warcraft is because I had the same problem. I used to LOVE AMD and would buy their processors for everything. I had the 8150, loved it, but in WoW I was getting lower than expected FPS. I overclocked my chip as high as possible and this did provide a nice jump in FPS but it wasn't what I was hoping for being an enthusiasts at the time. So, I bought an i7-3770K (with HT disabled) and my FPS nearly doubled in some scenarioes
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