Upgrading my motherboard needed?

TLG Nehko

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A few months ago my motherboard died and i dust off my old asrock n68-GS4FX to pari with my 8320E. Ive been seeing an awful lot of FPS drops on some games and it gets unplayable sometimes. I have a gtx960 and i feel like its really dumb to be on 20fps on games like league of legends. My question is if the min atx motherboard is not enough for my system? Do i need to change my motherboard (one click from buying a MSI 970 gaming) or maybe my poor performance is due to something else im not seeing.

My specs are:

CPU: AMD Fx-8320E
MOBO: Asrock N68-GS4 FX
GPU: Asus Astrix gtx 960 2GB
PSU: EVGA 500W 80 PLUS
RAM: 8GB HyperX Savage DDR3 2133 (from previous more powerful pc)


Thanks for the advice.
 

goerk27

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Did you hook up your monitor to your mainboard GPU? Thats how it sounds to me. The mainboard does not make that big of a difference (granted everything is supported) and a new one would not give you any noticeable better perfomance.
 

TLG Nehko

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I just reset the BIOS, reinstall drivers and still the same.
 

TLG Nehko

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Im aware of the limitations of the chip, even so, a dip on the performance on applications like lol or DOTA are not normal.