Kamen Rider Yeah 2018 年 3 月 12 日 下午 3:49
I have a GeForce GTX 660 but can barely play games
I've been having problems for the last year or so with this computer I got off a friend. He told me he put in the GTX 660 himself just before he gave it to me and it has an AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Processor and 8GB RAM. To my understanding, he was able to play games fine on it. However, ever since I've gotten this computer, I can barely play most of my games.

League of Legends will drop to under 20 fps even on the lowest settings, Fortnite drops under 30 fps on the lowest settings, my computer will just completely lock up (the screen is frozen, no sound coming from the games, but computer is still running) when I play games like Overwatch and Dark Souls 3.

I've taken my computer in twice to a repair shop and they tell me it runs fine, my RAM isn't damaged like they thought it was, and they didn't seem to find any problems with it. Every now and then though it still freezes and I can't play any of my games like they should be played. I was wondering if anyone on here had any idea what could be wrong with my computer. Is it the CPU? The motherboard? Unless there's something wrong with my graphics card it should be playing my games fine. I'm at a total loss and would appreciate any help or advice I can get, thanks.

I haven't updated my drivers for a while but they were still having these problems even when I had them all up to date.
最后由 Kamen Rider Yeah 编辑于; 2018 年 3 月 12 日 下午 3:50
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Jamebonds1 2018 年 3 月 13 日 下午 3:00 
By the way, what is game do you playing? Other than LoL?
Bad 💀 Motha 2018 年 3 月 13 日 下午 6:35 
引用自 Koba-Chan
引用自 igloosfolly
A windows 10 key can be had from fleabay for 10 dollars.

Yeah my dad mentioned this morning that if I wipe the computer it'll be difficult to put Windows 10 back on it if it wasn't a legit copy so I'll probably either buy a key or whatever.

And why is that? When you fresh-build a PC is there an OS on it, certainly not.
You don't need an OS to then have any easier means of re-doing the PC.
What you need is just go grab your Product Key; use Piriform Speccy for that, then copy & paste the OS key to a text file and store that away from any PC in a safe place, or simply write it down, which OS it goes with and which PC it goes with, quite simple really.

Once you install Windows fresh, select "I do not have a key" and always do it this way.
If for some reason the OS does not self-activate normally after a new install instance from the activation page in the OS, then from that page, re-enter your Product Key.

What you will need a working Windows OS based PC for though it making your Windows OS installer media; simply go on a working Win7 or later based PC, download the Win10 ISO from Microsoft and create your USB Flash Drive install media drive using RUFUS; then boot from that and format/install the OS.

After you create your Win10 flash drive, you can use the remaining space for extra storage, such as for holding all your needed Driver Installs you will need to download, etc...
最后由 Bad 💀 Motha 编辑于; 2018 年 3 月 13 日 下午 6:37
Kamen Rider Yeah 2018 年 3 月 13 日 下午 11:42 
引用自 Infinity Josh
引用自 Koba-Chan
I've gone ahead and ordered the FX-6300 in hopes it will fix my issues. Thank you all again for the help, I really appreciate it.

How much did you pay?

I got it on Newegg with a warranty and fast shipping for around 80

引用自 Jamebonds1
By the way, what is game do you playing? Other than LoL?

I play a lot of Fortnite right now but I also play some Dark Souls 3, Overwatch, Borderlands when they work
最后由 rotNdude 编辑于; 2018 年 3 月 14 日 上午 9:24
Jamebonds1 2018 年 3 月 14 日 上午 1:15 
引用自 Koba-Chan
引用自 Jamebonds1
By the way, what is game do you playing? Other than LoL?

I play a lot of Fortnite right now but I also play some Dark Souls 3, Overwatch, Borderlands when they work

It look like Dark Soul 3 and Borderlands are higher CPU usually, so yeah might need switch to new CPU that work on your motherboard. Also, Windows 10 are known to slow down some game when updated from Windows 7 or 8.1.
Bad 💀 Motha 2018 年 3 月 14 日 上午 11:59 
Wait what? 8350 is like $90-99 or so
Kamen Rider Yeah 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 12:19 
引用自 Bad_Motha
Wait what? 8350 is like $90-99 or so

I could only find FX6300 for around 70-80 without them being used and I didn't want used
xSOSxHawkens 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 12:46 
You would have been fine with used.

That said, though the FX8 series would have been better, the FX6300 will be a substantial upgrade from the 4100.

It might have been possible that an FX-8 sereies chip might have given you issues, as they required higher end motherboards to work without issues.

Anything running FX4 can run FX6 without any real issue though.



Just remeber, this is *not* going to increase the maximum FPS in games that were already putting 100% load on the GPU, what it *will* do is remove a majority of frame drops and stutter, like you talked about in the OP, and it will also increase the FPS in any games that were limited by the 4100 to begin with.

Off hand, from looking at some quick vids last night, in Overwatch for example, I saw most FX4100 vids showing average of 40ish FPS with a large number of dips into the 20s or worse when paired with things like a 600 or 750...

Same game and same gpu's got closer to 50 average, with no noticable dips below the mid to upper 30's when paired with an FX6300...


Overall, you will have a much more stable and consistent experiance, which is what you need to have for imersive gameplay in any game.
Bad 💀 Motha 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 12:58 
Used AMD CPUs can be an iffy route, do to the fact the pins are on the CPU itself, unlike modern Intel chips. I would say no to used AMD, for sure when it comes to their CPUs. Unless you are able to buy used from a local shop and actually in-person inspect the CPU before purchasing, or are getting from friend/family and can also inspect it to ensure no broken pins. AM3+ is approx 940-942 actual pins on the CPU, its easy to miss if a single pin is broken off at a glance.

And AMD FX can still be had for "new in the sealed box" also...

Or you can buy "OEM Tray" based CPU; this is how people like myself usually buy CPUs; Tray OEM is when a reseller/shop has purchased an entire tray of a CPU model; this can be sold as-is and separate from a PC Build Purchase; the reason for folks buying them this way is bulk = cheaper for shops who custom build PCs. As most dont need the warranty paper, box, or even the crappy stock cooler... you want an after-market cooler anyways.
xSOSxHawkens 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 2:08 
Broken pins are a bad thing, and cant be un-done...

Bent pins on the otherhand is mostly a non-issue...

I have seen AMD CPUs (Socket 939-AM3+ are roughly the same pin count and density) that have litteraly had the pins bent conpletly over, then sandwitched between the CPU and the motherboard, with the heat sink strapped on, and powered on with no boot or post, and we are talking like 8 bent pin that actualy damanged with cpu socket with their imprint in the plastic.

Unbent all the pins, cleaned out the rouch bits near the edges of the ZIF socket holes from the impressions of the pins, put it all back together, and the system booted and worked fine.

Advised person not to do things like pull out CPU an heatsink at once and then force back in...


As a matter of fact, I currently have a socket 939 Athlon 64 x2 4800+ that had and entire row of bent and mangaled pins that I unbent and slvaged back into a working chip. Was a nice upgrade to my old DFI Lanparty NF4 board that had a single core athlon 64 in it.


I have had equal sucess with un-bending and correcting pins on pre-LGA Intel at well.

Honestly the hard ones are the *old* intel and AMD chips for things like socket 7 and the likes, the pins are large and non-durrable, the solder is weak and they are far easier to break. Modern pins have softer pins that will re-shape with ease without stress on the newere and stronger soldier points.
Nemesis2k7 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 3:04 
引用自 igloosfolly
You need 8 more gigs on board memory and another 660 so you can sli. Depending on your mother board you could grab a newer fx8350 and yes it is better than some g4560. Really you should think about a newer setup. Not everyone has a ton of money and a new system cpu/ram/mb is going to cost over 350 and 1060 card is 400. To tell you how good a Fx8350 is with all those cores Today i downloaded music while listening to music while playing a game on Steam and never lost a beat.


you do NOT need 8gb ram for sli. so many people talking out their anus.
Jamebonds1 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 3:27 
Might I remind people that buying used CPU is at your own risk since some people has bent pin then bent it back become weak. Since it is smaller pin, it might could bent and unbent often than large pin. Failing at vibration test as well if anything applicable in some company. So probably that is what ZIF (Zero Insert Force) socket are for. Also, some people without ESD protection might touch pin. Those are electrostatic-sensitive.


I know it is not about help get CPU, but some seller might have Ebay money back guarantee in event CPU does not work well. Sometime work out with paypal is good too. Chargeback utterly the last resort as seller can sue you.
⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧ 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 3:33 
引用自 Nemesis_2k7
引用自 igloosfolly
You need 8 more gigs on board memory and another 660 so you can sli. Depending on your mother board you could grab a newer fx8350 and yes it is better than some g4560. Really you should think about a newer setup. Not everyone has a ton of money and a new system cpu/ram/mb is going to cost over 350 and 1060 card is 400. To tell you how good a Fx8350 is with all those cores Today i downloaded music while listening to music while playing a game on Steam and never lost a beat.


you do NOT need 8gb ram for sli. so many people talking out their anus.


oh yeah 660 sli, brilliant idea....
Nemesis2k7 2018 年 3 月 14 日 下午 3:35 
引用自 ⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧
引用自 Nemesis_2k7


you do NOT need 8gb ram for sli. so many people talking out their anus.


oh yeah 660 sli, brilliant idea....
yea, real helpful. it IS a brilliant idea. ujelly?
Kamen Rider Yeah 2018 年 3 月 15 日 下午 9:29 
Hey everyone, I've put the new processor in and so far it seems to have fixed my major problems. Thank you all for the help!
xSOSxHawkens 2018 年 3 月 15 日 下午 9:30 
引用自 Koba-Chan
Hey everyone, I've put the new processor in and so far it seems to have fixed my major problems. Thank you all for the help!
Congrats!

Being an unloacked CPU, if you have an OK cooler on it and watch your temps you might be abel to squeeze a small bit more out of it even on air, perhaps pusing it to a constant speed of its turbo, or slightly faster.

Have fun!

And save up now for that new system :)
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