HIS 6850 very bad fps

[mzero56]

I had a stock medion akoya 8346 (i know shitty computer) but i thought I should get a new 500w powersupply from thermaltake and the HIS 6850 from msy so i cold enjoy every game i could think of getting nothing below 30 fps. I already knew the card wouldn't run as good as benchmarks on 3dmarks etc would be because i only have a intel pentium e5700 but games run extremely badly, to the point where my old 5570 would run 10fps better. On games that i have been waiting for ages to play with 40 fps plus, on low settings its a rarity that i ever get over 16-25 fps. Its becoming a huge pain and it's not a hardware problem. I have all the right drivers and MSY aren't helping, so i pass the torch to you guys, yahoo answers doesn't answer and every post on toms hardware gets plenty of help.

Any assistance or fixes will be very much appreciated

 

[iam2thecrowe]

please list your FULL system specs, along with which particular games you are having problems with along with your OS version, then we may be able to help. You can monitor your temperatures with HWmonitor to make sure nothing is overheating. If you have no exhaust fan in your case, i suggest you get at least one.

 

[mzero56]

Intel Pentium Processor E5700 3.0 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB
HIS Radeon HD 6850 DirectX 11 Graphics Card with 1024 MB GDDR5 dedicated memory on board and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI
connection (HDCP Support)
Thermaltake 500w psu
1TB (1000GB) Hard Drive For more than 200,000 songs or photos (at 4 MB per track/photo)
4GB (4096MB)1 DDR3 SDRAM Memory
Multiformat DVD/CD Burner2 supports all the usual DVD/CD standards, including dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R
Wireless LAN3 IEEE 802.11 n-standard with up-to 300 MBit/s., IEEE 802.11 b/g compatible3
Network Controller Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mbit/s
6 Channel High Definition Audio4
PS/2 Keyboard and Optical USB mouse

 

[inzone]

Most modern games now require a dual core proccessor as a minimum requirement so with your cpu you are right at the bottom of that requirement and with trying to run the new video card as well as the newer games it might be too much for the cpu to keep up. Does your motherboard support a quad core cpu.

 

[mzero56]

no it doesn't but would these two pieces of hardware work well with the 6850 to get me into the 40 fps+ area in games like the witcher 2?
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 AM3 970 DDR3 Motherboard
AMD AM3 x4 840 3.20Ghz Athlon II Quad Core

 

[dennis555]

That single core is definitely the bottleneck of your system. Sure in some games less than others, but overall your single core is no where near powerful enough to handle that 6850 well. You say it's not a hardware problem, but it is. Since you have an lga 775 socket motherboard, I suggest you look up your exact motherboard specs online and upgrade to perhaps a core 2 duo.

Hold on a sec. You then say you have an AM3 DDR3 mobo? What is it intel or AMD?

 

[mzero56]

No i don't these are two pieces of hardware that i can afford that i think might work well with the card, and by hardware problem i meant the card was not faulty.
This is my current motherboard, don't bother searching it up it just comes up with some laptop by msi
and my processor already has 2 cores, don't know where u guys got that from
MSI MS-7653