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Ok so I have done a lot of researching about my setup. My brother sold me his older rig and bought a new one.

I'm sitting with

AMD FX8350 (OC to 4.2ghz all cores) Stable
Nvidia GeForce 970 (oc to 980 stock levels) Stable
16 gh ddr3 1866 ram
Windows 10

I recently purchased the Unreal franchise pack and installed Unreal Tournament 3 on both my new system and my laptop (asus i7 6700hq/960m) expecting both would blow it out of the water considering its age.

I'm finding that on large scale maps with vehicles and 32 bots that my framerate on my desktop with the AMD is dipping below 60 frequently to the 50s and rarely the 40s. My laptop maintains a constant 60fps.

Is this something I should chalk up to the games age and the several versions of windows that have been released since, maybe poor AMD optimization or is this CPU really not strong enough to handle this game firing on all cylinders? The res I use is 1080.

On my desktop the gpu usage is very low and the CPU usage is all over the place (no cores parked). Considering this was one of the first truly multi core games I didn't think it'd be an issue.
 
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I can tell you this much. With Mass Effect Andromeda and Witcher 3, the FX8350 will handle max settings. Newer games can take advantage of the higher number of cores. People say the 8350 isn't good for gaming. I laugh at them because I know first hand how well it performs. It performs splendidly in next gen games.
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Ok fair enough. Even so, UT3 is from like 2007. Even with a five year old CPU, I don't see why my CPU would be bottlenecking a game from so long ago.
 
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Maybe better single core performance, have in mind its a laptop and it gets really hot and throttles. Definetly not better multi core. Its 6700HQ not 6700. Big difference
 
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Forjamesalec

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Yeah under hwmonitor64 it's not throttling with the game and it doesnt under the intel burn test on occt either.

The laptop scores 5fps higher on the CPU physics test in firestrike on 3dmark. That's the biggest difference I see.

I can pretty much lower all the settings on ut3 or up them all and it makes little difference on the desktop.
 
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Forjamesalec

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Seems I found the culprit. Or at least squashed it. I deleted and reinstalled the game and the issue is gone. I don't dip below 60 anymore, quite frequently above 80-100. Maybe it's because I created a new windows user and was playing it on that when I had installed it on the other login? I have no idea.
 
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I can tell you this much. With Mass Effect Andromeda and Witcher 3, the FX8350 will handle max settings. Newer games can take advantage of the higher number of cores. People say the 8350 isn't good for gaming. I laugh at them because I know first hand how well it performs. It performs splendidly in next gen games.
 
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Forjamesalec

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Yeah in my research I have seen a lot of happy AMD users. Though I have heard a few games like GTA and MMOs like WoW, FFXIV and Elder Scrolls can cause some CPU strain
 
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