Games run WORSE than they did after upgrading.

JummySpurkles · May 15, 2017

So last year I bought a budget gaming PC build with an AMD FX-6300, 8GB of RAM and the GTX 960. Well recently since the 6300 is barely considered for 'minimum' anymore that I'd upgrade to the AMD FX-8350. But now after that upgrade my games run even worse. GTA V, Fallout 4, Rainbow Six Siege they all ran pretty well. They weren't Max settings but nice enough and all ran at 40-60 frames. After this upgrade however GTA V is getting 20fps on MEDIUM settings, Fallout 4 doesn't even launch and Siege is less than 10fps.

What could the problem be? Could it be the Motherboard? I'm running the ASRock - 970 Pro3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard, which I hear isn't the best MOBO for the 8350...most likely because the board is too small to fit the 8350's cooler so I'm still using 6300's cooler on the 8350.

bystander · May 15, 2017

Monitor the heat and clock rates to start with, to see what went wrong, but don't expect any improvement in gaming performance. There is almost no difference in performance between the 2 CPU's for the vast majority of games. Going from 6 cores to 8 cores doesn't make any difference in most games.

Mohd Mamat · May 15, 2017

JummySpurkles :

You just answered your question mate

The stock cooler of the FX-6300 is a bad option for gaming, thus during gaming, your CPU actually downclocks/throttles because the cooler simply couldnt cope with the temps/TDP of the FX 8350. Oh, the new cooler of the FX-8350 would just fit fine on the AM3+ bracket. Make sure, that you always clean and reapply thermal paste.

The motherboard should do just fine, I've seen some people use their FX-8xxx series chip on a 780 board.

JummySpurkles · May 16, 2017

Mohd Mamat :

JummySpurkles :

You just answered your question mate

The stock cooler of the FX-6300 is a bad option for gaming, thus during gaming, your CPU actually downclocks/throttles because the cooler simply couldnt cope with the temps/TDP of the FX 8350. Oh, the new cooler of the FX-8350 would just fit fine on the AM3+ bracket. Make sure, that you always clean and reapply thermal paste.

The motherboard should do just fine, I've seen some people use their FX-8xxx series chip on a 780 board.

Alright well I was able to somehow squeeze the heatsink onto the board, but there's no real difference except for the fact that my task manager at least says that I'm getting more than 1GHz out of my CPU. Other than that the games are still running as bad as they did before I put the heatsink on.

Mohd Mamat · May 16, 2017

JummySpurkles :

Mohd Mamat :

Alright well I was able to somehow squeeze the heatsink onto the board, but there's no real difference except for the fact that my task manager at least says that I'm getting more than 1GHz out of my CPU. Other than that the games are still running as bad as they did before I put the heatsink on.

Did you apply any thermal paste?

JummySpurkles · May 16, 2017

Mohd Mamat :

JummySpurkles :

Mohd Mamat :

Alright well I was able to somehow squeeze the heatsink onto the board, but there's no real difference except for the fact that my task manager at least says that I'm getting more than 1GHz out of my CPU. Other than that the games are still running as bad as they did before I put the heatsink on.

Did you apply any thermal paste?

I always have a tube or two with the rest of my computer tools

Search

Games run WORSE than they did after upgrading.

JummySpurkles

Prominent

bystander

Champion

Mohd Mamat

Honorable

JummySpurkles

Prominent

Mohd Mamat

Honorable

JummySpurkles

Prominent

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page