Hi Guys,
I recently purchased the Dell XPS 8500, mostly for gaming. I added an aftermarket ASUS amd graphics card (HD 7870), for the improved cooling, due to the smaller case in the 8500. The games I usually play are Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Dark Souls, Skyrim, and Witcher 2. I am having a lot of very frustrating issues, most games stutter pretty badly, even at moderate settings. FRAPS says that games are running at 60 fps, but it rarely feels like it due to the stutter. Even worse, regardless of settings, most games run my card at 65 to 72 degrees Celsius (according to gpu-z), which is pretty hot for a "cooler" GPU. I am using the current drivers and my system has very few background programs running. The part that frustrates me, is that I will lower my game settings (turn off AA, lower shader, shadow, texture settings) and the fps gets a very small boost, if at all, but the temps stay the same. I'm just confused what is going on here. The case is properly cooled and wired, all I have changed is adding the GPU, but Dell says it is a supported brand (they sell it themselves for this PC), so I am at a loss as to why games are performing so poorly and running so hot. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated!
System Specifications:
Dell CPS 8500
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Intel Core i7 3770 4 cores @ 3.4ghz (Up to 3.9ghz)
12 GB DDR3 ram
ASUS HD 7870 Direct CU II 2GB
Dell 460W PSU
I recently purchased the Dell XPS 8500, mostly for gaming. I added an aftermarket ASUS amd graphics card (HD 7870), for the improved cooling, due to the smaller case in the 8500. The games I usually play are Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Dark Souls, Skyrim, and Witcher 2. I am having a lot of very frustrating issues, most games stutter pretty badly, even at moderate settings. FRAPS says that games are running at 60 fps, but it rarely feels like it due to the stutter. Even worse, regardless of settings, most games run my card at 65 to 72 degrees Celsius (according to gpu-z), which is pretty hot for a "cooler" GPU. I am using the current drivers and my system has very few background programs running. The part that frustrates me, is that I will lower my game settings (turn off AA, lower shader, shadow, texture settings) and the fps gets a very small boost, if at all, but the temps stay the same. I'm just confused what is going on here. The case is properly cooled and wired, all I have changed is adding the GPU, but Dell says it is a supported brand (they sell it themselves for this PC), so I am at a loss as to why games are performing so poorly and running so hot. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated!
System Specifications:
Dell CPS 8500
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Intel Core i7 3770 4 cores @ 3.4ghz (Up to 3.9ghz)
12 GB DDR3 ram
ASUS HD 7870 Direct CU II 2GB
Dell 460W PSU
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