Help, I think my graphics card is dying

[timmeh50]

Lately I've been experiencing some performance drops in my PC games. For example, in League of Legends, I used to get 120+ FPS with high settings, but now I have an average of 40-70. All my other games have this problem, from Minecraft to Skyrim. GPU is Radeon HD 6570. My idle temperature for my GPU is around 45 C, and full load is 59 C. I kept it overclocked a little since I got it, but not to the point where it can damage the card. Are my games suffering because it is a budget card and is not designed for overclocking? If I stopped overclocking, will the performance improve, or is the card probably already damaged? My CPU temperatures are okay, 45 C idle and 52 C load.

PC Specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 965
ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX motherboard
Radeon HD 6570 1 GB
8 GB G.SKILL Sniper 1333 MHZ RAM
Hitachi 500 GB hard drive
Allied 500 W PSU
Rosewill Challenger Mid Tower ATX case

 

[Deemo13]

That seems about right fps for the game. As long as its smooth. The 6570 isnt exactly a powerhouse.

 

[timmeh50]

That seems about right fps for the game. As long as its smooth. The 6570 isnt exactly a powerhouse.

However, when I get into a big team fight, the FPS sometimes drops to 10 and can really affect my gameplay.

 

[Deemo13]

You might want to look into an upgrade. And maybe lower the settings to medium. That's what I played on on my 5570.

What resolution?

 

[timmeh50]

I play windowed at 1600x900.

 

[Deemo13]

Yea just lower the settings and see if that fixes things.

 

[aaab]

LOL has increased the video effects recently. That would quite likely cause FPS drops that weren't there before.

My 2c

 

[AstroTC]

Yes, its true my LoL frames dipped after the lastest patches

 

[evan1715]

try updating ur driver and turning everything on it back to default.

 

[timmeh50]

I tried updating my drivers and it didn't work. I don't think it's because of the patches; I would still get good framerates after the big graphics update and the other ones that followed. I think I will look into an upgrade this year's Black Friday.

 

[spat55]

LOL has increased the video effects recently. That would quite likely cause FPS drops that weren't there before.

My 2c

when you said lol i thought you meant laugh out loud :lol: had to look at op again and then saw league of legends, i think this might be your answer OP.

 

[Deemo13]

What Res?

 

[timmeh50]

I think heat really was the issue. This time I underclocked it and my FPS returned to the high 100s.

 

[timmeh50]

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