Lower FPS than I anticipated, new rig!

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I recently bought a new gaming machine. I live in a country where PC parts are way to expensive, and I had a somewhat tight budget. I managed to build this:

AMD FX 8300
Gigabyte AMD 380x 4gb
16gb ram DDR3 1866mHz
1tb HDD

The thing is that games are not running that well, especially because I'm gaming on old 1280x1024 monitor. Here are some FPS tests i counducted;

Crysis 3 - high 63-24 (drops are hard and significant)
GTA IV ultra - 40 - 70
Minecraft (with optifine) - ultra settings - 180-240FPS

I have a feeling that I should be getting more FPS than this. OS is Windows 8.1 64bit, drivers for graphic card are fresh install, but all other drivers are automatically downloaded by Windows. I have no intention of overclocking
 
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At that low resolution CPU bottlenecks will be magnified. Stop any background tasks that may be using CPU cycles, also for the love of Pete turn Vsync on. You are gonna overheat that poor 8300 and make your problem worse. Unless you are having issues or are playing in competition Vsync should be on. Stock cooler? Get a hyper 212.
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The GPU is capable of better, but it's probably about what could be expected from that CPU without OCing.

If the budget is tight/prices are expensive, even an i3 would probably have been a better option.

If you're seeing substantial drops in C3 that is impacting gameplay, the only option you have (other than Ocing) is to lower your settings from high, until you can find something that works for you.
 
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At that low resolution CPU bottlenecks will be magnified. Stop any background tasks that may be using CPU cycles, also for the love of Pete turn Vsync on. You are gonna overheat that poor 8300 and make your problem worse. Unless you are having issues or are playing in competition Vsync should be on. Stock cooler? Get a hyper 212.
 
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Yeah, I realize that Intel is better for gaming, but main purpose of my rig is video/music editing and my AMD just excells in that. The thing is that I saw people with similar rigs play games on way better FPS, on larger resolution, how's that possible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbuDDk-FWDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYZtau3lFo
And by the way only intel cpu i could have bought was i3 3220, would it really be better than mine 8300
 
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Those videos are over a year old, so there could always be driver variants, but the biggest problem in comparing those two videos to your build is...............they're not the same build, they're not even close enough to be considered "similar".

Your build: FX-8300 + R9 380X
Video #1: FX-8320 + GTX 960
Video #2: i7-3770k + R9 380X

The FX-8300 and 8320 are essentially the same CPU, at the same clock speed. The 8320 is OC'd as standard at 3.5GHz, turboing to 4.0Ghz vs the 8300 at 3.3 to 3.8GHz. You have no intention to overclock, so you can't compare the 8300 and 8320.

Needless to say, the i7-3770K removes the CPU bottleneck, allowing the 380X to be "unleashed" so, again, not a fair comparison.


The i3-3220 is the only i3 you could afford? Where is that even for sale these days?
A Haswell Refresh or Skylake i3 are right around $95-110. For gaming, yes, an i3 would likely be the better option.

Since the main purpose of the rig is video/music editing, if the additional cores/threads of the FX is what works for you on your budget, then you'll have to make do with the gaming performance.
 
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