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I recently built a new PC trying to get a good mix of value and performance (which I am sure is harder than I am led to believe). I will include the specs below but one of my main reasons to build the computer was to start to carry over from console gaming to PC gaming. I felt what I built would be able to run most game pretty decently but benchmarks so far are maxing out at about 21 FPS, which is far from optimal. 60+ would be ideal but, heck, I'd take 40 at this point. Most game I have played (Hitman Absolution, Far Cry 3) have struggled to run just at medium settings. Given the stats below, are they any upgrades or suggestions you have for the system? I am running dual graphics with the Radeon Card and the GPU in the processor.

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
Motherboard:ASRock A75M-ITX FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Green WD20EARX 2TB
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/09/12 20:05:54 Ver: 04.06.04
Processor: AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (4 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 7914MB RAM
Page File: 2167MB used, 13658MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11

Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6570
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6759)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6759&SUBSYS_31901682&REV_00
Display Memory: 1859 MB
Dedicated Memory: 2254 MB
Shared Memory: 3700 MB

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mikerockett said:
Don't worry, not everyone can get it right the first time. Unfortunately there's little you can do that's going to improve the situation to a respectable stand point other than getting yourself a new GPU.



I appreciate the honesty. I will try the first poster's suggestion of running just the discreet gpu and see if that accomplishes much. Worst case, learn to build a better computer!
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not to be a buzzkill here but green hdd are lowest quality of all wd hdds and are not particularly made to runn system, their main purpose is just data/media storage. If i'd be you i'd be on my guard for this hdd performance

butremor said:
not to be a buzzkill here but green hdd are lowest quality of all wd hdds and are not particularly made to runn system, their main purpose is just data/media storage. If i'd be you i'd be on my guard for this hdd performance


Thanks for the heads up. I felt the price point was a little too good to be true so might something I need to replace in the future.
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