FPS Problems?

[valrath21]

Hey there. I recently had this computer built by a good friend of mine a couple weeks ago. It's the first computer I've spent a good amount of money on so I'm kind of paranoid. I get about 20 - 30 FPS in GW2 on the settings it Auto-Detects for me and about the same if not lower on Diablo 3 when it Auto-Detects. It Auto-Detects everything to High, so Idk if that it's going to high for my CPU or if my CPU should be able to run at that perfectly smooth.

http://i.imgur.com/pn5rH.jpg - Here is CPU-Z, HWMonitor, and Speedfan.

http://i.imgur.com/h21f4.jpg - Here is Cinebench 11.5. Don't know much about it, but it says 4 cores/8 threads?

http://i.imgur.com/AxFgZ.jpg - HWMonitor and Speedfan after playing games for about an hour. 20 - 30 frames GW2.

http://i.imgur.com/7qana.jpg - CYRI for some games.

All the parts:

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=15095814


I'm not good with computers so looking at this information I have no idea what could be wrong. If you see anything strange or there is anything else I could do that would help me, please let me know. Thanks!


Edit: Added more links.

 

[nna2]

it's probably cpu limited in this case, i would suggest buying an aftermarket CPU cooler (hyper 212 evo is around $35) and doing a bit of overclocking, that should get a bit more FPS out of the chip

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/274820-29-black-edition-overclock-raising-multiplier-guide here is an overclocking guide on AMD BE chips (which your is one of)

 

[valrath21]

Thanks for the reply. I'll see about that. I added a few more links, if it helps anything at all.

 

[inzone]

The first thing I would say to you is that you should have come here before you had this computer built and you would have gotten a different build and one that's suited for gaming. You problem is that you have an AMD cpu and an FX 8150 to boot. That cpu has been shown to be not very good for gaming and has even been beaten by AMD's lower class cpu's. To give you an example of what I'm talking about here's a gaming cpu chart that is put out every month here at Tomshardware.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Notice that the top two levels only have Intel cpus listed and the 8150 doesn't show up untill the fourth level.
Now before you go jumping off the nearest tall building all is not lost because you can still overclock the cpu that you have and you can overclock it by a lot. What that will do is help with the fps and eventually as your clock goes higher the fps will start to climb as well.
What I suggest to do now is to start reading up on how to overclock and if you have another friend that has experience (not the one that built you this pc) with overclocking and can help you get started. The one thing I will tell you is that overclocking done the right way is a tedious time consuming process and you have to have a lot of patience and time but if done right you will only have to do it once and you will have a much better performing computer.
Once you get to the overclock that you want to keep and your computer is completely stable with ity you should save the bios settings in an overclocking profile in the bios. That way if the bios were to reset by accident you can reload you saved settings and not have to go through the process all over again.

 

[valrath21]

So everything looks ok, it's just not as good as some others? I'm curious as to why it auto detects to such high settings and then doesn't run very well then. It is way past recommended and such for every game I play. (Don't know how reliable though) Strange. Not trying to question you, just my thoughts, but anyways, thanks for the reply!