Games not performing as well as my specs allow

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Last year, I custom built a computer from cyberpower. I spent around £1400 to ensure I could run top line games as well as use photoshop / after effects. I've never really felt like I'm getting the performance I should and I was wondering if there's anything I could change in my set up to get more fps. I feel like with 6gb of video memory, 16gb ram and 8 core 4.4ghz I shoudn't even have an issue running games, but I often find myself getting lower performance than my friends even if they've got worse builds than me. I was wondering if crossfire is causing this, as I can honestly say having 2 graphic cards seem pointless.

I have crossfire 2x AMD r9 280x
AMD FX 9370
16gb ram

Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Memory Size - 3072 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Core Clock - 1020 MHz
Windows Version - Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
System Memory - 16 GB
CPU Type - AMD FX(tm)-9370 Eight-Core Processor

Can anyone spot anything I could improve on or anything wrong with my build? I feel like my computer should be performing fine.

Thank you
 
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Without knowing specifics such as what games, if the slowdown occurs after a period of time, environment, I can only make a few suggestions:

- Your cards could be thermal throttling = Set an 'aggrsssive' fan profile to try and keep them cool
- Check you have the right crossfire profile for the games you're playing
- Try disabling 1 card and playing a game, compare the FPS
- Some games don't play as well for AMD as they do for Nvidia. If you've got anything from Nvidia Gameworks running, it'll hit your GPU hard
- Forgive me if you knew already, but the GPU memory doesn't stack, so when you're gaming, you're gaming with 3GB, not 6GB.
- If you're playing at 1440p or higher, you might wanna drop that to 1080p
- Although the FX series is...
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For one an 8core processor is useless for gaming, most games don't even know what to do with that many cores, some games will scale per core, but not nearly enough to make that kind of CPU worth it. Many games benefit more from clock speed than from number of cores.

Besides that you have two r9 200 cards, running two does not mean double the performance, realistically at most you get 40% more performance using SLI/CF over a single card, and not in everything either. Top of the line for gaming right now is basically what I have, which is an i7 6700K 4.0GHz, quad-core, and depending on what resolution you're running a 10 series Nvidia Card, in single GPU configuration and depending on the model (I have a 1080) up to 8GB VRAM, and a couple thousand CUDA cores.

As far as what's going on with your system, the extra power is actually going unused, especially your CPU. And your GPU is really nothing to brag about in 2016. Even the last few years the top dog has been the 980 Ti and thats a better card even assuming you have the best R9 290X. The only card that can compete where speed is concerned is the R9 Fury and Fury X. In fact the only two cards that are better than the 980Ti are the 1070 and 1080. And UNLESS you have the 290X I would look into upgrading.
 
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Without knowing specifics such as what games, if the slowdown occurs after a period of time, environment, I can only make a few suggestions:

- Your cards could be thermal throttling = Set an 'aggrsssive' fan profile to try and keep them cool
- Check you have the right crossfire profile for the games you're playing
- Try disabling 1 card and playing a game, compare the FPS
- Some games don't play as well for AMD as they do for Nvidia. If you've got anything from Nvidia Gameworks running, it'll hit your GPU hard
- Forgive me if you knew already, but the GPU memory doesn't stack, so when you're gaming, you're gaming with 3GB, not 6GB.
- If you're playing at 1440p or higher, you might wanna drop that to 1080p
- Although the FX series is the top end of AMD's lineup, sometimes it can be outdone by 'lower end' intel CPUs. (An i3 can outperform it in some situations!)
- Make sure you don't have loads of programs open in the background when you're playing (especially browsers!)

Hope this helps!
 
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