What is bottlenecking my computer?

[Divide by Zero [iKeirNez]]

I built my new pc around 6 months ago. Recently I have been noticing some major fps issues in most games (including minecraft) It thought my pc would be decent enough to run most games but it seems not. I think its my graphics card although I want to be sure before I go and spend £250 on a new one. Here are my specs

OS: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD FX 8120 (Eight Core) 3.1GHz
Graphics: AMD Radeon 6670
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
RAM: 8GBs

My GPU load usually max's out to 95-99% when having a game open but want to be completely sure this is actually bottlenecking it.

I would also like to get a good, quiet fan for my cpu as sometimes the temp is higher than I would like it to be and the fan is noisy.

Anyone who can help me out will get a free copy of Dota 2 to say thanks.

Keir

[Coffee]

Mister Patrick Star eredeti hozzászólása:

Hey guys, I need some guidance. I have a decent gaming rig running two AMD Radeon 7750's crossfire, 12 GB of DDR3 RAM and an Intel Core i5-3750K @ 3.40 GHz. A lot of the time, I wish my gaming experience was smoother. I notice it most in games like Far Cry 3 for example. I know there is a lot of issues with crossfire and I've read recently that they're about to release an update that claims to fix a lot of the issues, however; with my current set up could a bottleneck be happening somewhere? If so, what's causing it? What should I overclock/upgrade?

Make your own thread rather than hijacking another one.

AMD never been good with drivers anyway, you should have gotten a better tcard instead of weak crossfire cards and that's not the best CPu but it should be fine.

[xSneaK]

amd drivers are fine.

AMD 9000 series is coming out in october just to let you know OP.

[Coffee]

xSneak- eredeti hozzászólása:

amd drivers are fine.

AMD 9000 series is coming out in october just to let you know OP.

They tend to have issues with ANY recent release.
NVIDIA tend to develop drivers for games when they aren't released yet.
AMD tend to release the, some days AFTER the game release.

Also many games have issues with AMD card.

[xSneaK]

I've been on a 7970 since february and haven't had any problems. Furthermore, amd has a lot of games optimized for their video cards coming out in the future, like watch dogs, Rome 2, BF4, not to mention all the console ports from xbone and ps4.

[Coffee]

xSneak- eredeti hozzászólása:

I've been on a 7970 since february and haven't had any problems. Furthermore, amd has a lot of games optimized for their video cards coming out in the future, like watch dogs, Rome 2, BF4, not to mention all the console ports from xbone and ps4.

They simply signed a deal with AMD, not mean NVIDIA gonna get behind.
And i'm not only talking about onlky since february.


AMD had a lot of issues with their drivers, and it's always need to get an update to be really optimized for a game. Instead of being prepared BEFORE the game release.

The Watch Dog demo was running on NVIDIA too.

[Divide by Zero [iKeirNez]]

xSneak- eredeti hozzászólása:

amd drivers are fine.

AMD 9000 series is coming out in october just to let you know OP.

Lol nice, although I already bought the 7950. Just waiting on my new psu to power it.

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Mister Patrick Star eredeti hozzászólása:

Make your own thread rather than hijacking another one.

AMD never been good with drivers anyway, you should have gotten a better tcard instead of weak crossfire cards and that's not the best CPu but it should be fine.

Are you joking? Other forum sites would encourage not to make a million threads about the same subject...

[KyeIndeed]

I would say that it has to be the GPU. Being that a game like minecraft for instance is a very CPU intensive game. So you shouldnt notice huge loses there.