- Aug 21, 2017
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This is my setup:
Intel Core i5 4590 3.30 ghz
Asus Z87-A
Sapphire VAPOR‑X Radeon R9 280X
2x 4GB GDDR5 RAM
2x 250GB SATA SSD
Corsair CX600W
Case fan and CPU fan
Windows 10 64 bit
I bought this rig off of my friend. Unfortunately, the gaming performance on this is way less than I was expecting. Here are some examples:
-Sleeping Dogs is unable to play on the "high" setting because it dips to 15-20 fps frequently. I have seen benchmarks at other sites where people are able to run this at a constant 60 FPS at ultra with near identical specs.
-Cities: Skylines is nearly unplayable for me, even with a small city of 400 people (which is very early game), at the lowest settings. It runs 14-18 FPS at this point. It seems like setups similar to mine have been able to get constant 35-40 FPS with a huge city and maxed out graphics. I have found that performance generally gets worse the longer I play it.
-My 3DMark scores are way lower than they should be, but I have noticed something odd. I have been running the "Time Spy" benchmark. Sometimes when I run it, when I assume the system is hot and under load, I will get a score of around 7458. Other times, I have scored as well as 13002. Here and here are the detailed reports of the respective tests. I should be getting closer to 20000.
I have ran the above tests with GPU-Z and HWMonitor. The CPU looks fine, but GPU temperatures have reached to 100 Celsius at points, usually when the GPU is at 100% load. Because this temperature seemed a little alarming to me, I opened my case and ran a test and looked at the GPU fans. They never turned on, even when the temperature when the case was opened reached 94 Celsius and the GPU load at 100%.
Here are some other things I have done:
-Uninstalled and reinstalled latest AMD graphics drivers
-Cleaned inside computer with compressed air
-Installed a fresh copy of Windows 10
Here are things I am considering doing:
-Updating motherboard BIOS -- it sounds risky so I'd only do this as a last resort
-Removing the GPU and opening it and giving it a deep clean/reapply thermal paste
The most questionable thing to me at this point is the fans not running when the GPU is at 100% load and is 90+ Celsius. None of the 3 fans are spinning. Could this be the root problem?
Thanks for any help.
Intel Core i5 4590 3.30 ghz
Asus Z87-A
Sapphire VAPOR‑X Radeon R9 280X
2x 4GB GDDR5 RAM
2x 250GB SATA SSD
Corsair CX600W
Case fan and CPU fan
Windows 10 64 bit
I bought this rig off of my friend. Unfortunately, the gaming performance on this is way less than I was expecting. Here are some examples:
-Sleeping Dogs is unable to play on the "high" setting because it dips to 15-20 fps frequently. I have seen benchmarks at other sites where people are able to run this at a constant 60 FPS at ultra with near identical specs.
-Cities: Skylines is nearly unplayable for me, even with a small city of 400 people (which is very early game), at the lowest settings. It runs 14-18 FPS at this point. It seems like setups similar to mine have been able to get constant 35-40 FPS with a huge city and maxed out graphics. I have found that performance generally gets worse the longer I play it.
-My 3DMark scores are way lower than they should be, but I have noticed something odd. I have been running the "Time Spy" benchmark. Sometimes when I run it, when I assume the system is hot and under load, I will get a score of around 7458. Other times, I have scored as well as 13002. Here and here are the detailed reports of the respective tests. I should be getting closer to 20000.
I have ran the above tests with GPU-Z and HWMonitor. The CPU looks fine, but GPU temperatures have reached to 100 Celsius at points, usually when the GPU is at 100% load. Because this temperature seemed a little alarming to me, I opened my case and ran a test and looked at the GPU fans. They never turned on, even when the temperature when the case was opened reached 94 Celsius and the GPU load at 100%.
Here are some other things I have done:
-Uninstalled and reinstalled latest AMD graphics drivers
-Cleaned inside computer with compressed air
-Installed a fresh copy of Windows 10
Here are things I am considering doing:
-Updating motherboard BIOS -- it sounds risky so I'd only do this as a last resort
-Removing the GPU and opening it and giving it a deep clean/reapply thermal paste
The most questionable thing to me at this point is the fans not running when the GPU is at 100% load and is 90+ Celsius. None of the 3 fans are spinning. Could this be the root problem?
Thanks for any help.
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