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Okay sweet thanks!
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Turns out I have the FX-6100 3.3GHz but right now I have it clocked to 4.1GHz and am not even touching 50c yet, getting about 32c idle. So with it clocked at 4.1Ghz I noticed a few fps increase in the split-screen mode of the game I was testing, which led me to ask the question: how would my old GPU perform? So I switched them out and low and behold, I was getting a solid 50-60 fps in split-screen mode on all low settings (which I don't mind at the time since I'm short on money), with the GPU working at about 50% usage. This has to be a CPU bottleneck. Since I am already getting better performance with the overclocked CPU and old GPU, I'm going to return the old GPU and focus on overclocking my current CPU and waiting until I have enough money to upgrade the CPU/Motherboard/RAM all together. But before I go any further with the overclocking process, I just wanna make sure I'm doing it right. Basically, I've just been increasing the clock speed in the 0.5x increments and running a prime95 each time to test it. At 3.9Ghz I was getting some rounding errors and at 4Ghz my computer was locking up. So I slowly increased voltage 0.025v at a time and kept testing. I'm right now at 4.1Ghz with no issues at I think about 1.325v. Is this proper procedure? My CPU isn't getting anywhere near 50c even on full load so I figure I can take the voltage up more if needed, but I feel like I shouldn't go over 1.4 volts? Would that be a proper assumption? And what is the best way to monitor voltage? With Core Temp 1.7 I get a variance between 1.3875v and 1.4125v, it jumps between the two (even though I think in the BIOS it is set at 1.325, but let me check again). When under load it says the voltage is at 1.25v which I assume is just vdroop. Thanks, Bryan
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Okay I'm going to see what performance I can squeeze out of my current card without it getting too hot. I might try the Phenom II if that doesn't work out since 30 bucks is pretty cheap. Thanks for your help!
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Do you think I'd be able to squeeze some performance out of the current FX-6300 I have by overclocking? The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3. Thanks
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Even with the 4.0GHz (+0.5GHz), it'd be a reduction of cores to 4 cores. Will it make a noticeable difference?
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AM3+ Motherboard though, I've read the Phenom's aren't compatible with DDR3 either.
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Damn, and my birthday is in January. Okay I think I'm gonna return this AMD RX 480, or at least try to, and just put it all away until I can make the jump. Thanks guys.
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My understanding is that I'll need DDR4 too, which means I'm basically out of budget for the upgrade if I wanna get a 1600 or higher. If I could find a used FX9590 to just get me through a few more months, even with the sapphire card, you'd think I'd see an improvement still?
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Yes, I understand split screen is rendering it all twice. But on non-split screen I'm getting well over 200 fps on medium settings and stuff. You think this is just a CPU issue? And if so, would it be worth the upgrade to the new Ryzen 5 1500x?
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AMD FX-6300 6-core 3.5 GHz (Stock, on air, no OC)
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Hey guys I've been playing a lot of Black Ops 3 in the split screen mode so that I and a friend can play together. He is using a controller while I use a mouse and keyboard. I've been kind of annoyed recently at only being able to get around 45-50 fps while playing with him. I get him being a console player won't see a problem, but as a PC user, I want my 60fps smooth gaming. So I went out and bought a new graphics card. I used to have the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3gb, amazing card, but it has aged (I thought). So I went out and got the AMX rx 480 by XFX (Best Buy edition, was too impatient to ship it to my house). I was so excited to see the improvements, and I did immediately playing single-player. I was rendering the game at 150% resolution (BO3 option) and had the settings turned up all the way - solid 55-70 fps. So I tried to play it with split-screen. Keeping the same graphics settings, I got about 30 fps. So I lowered it all to around medium settings, and I started getting frame rates around 45 fps. I wanted that 60fps, so I cranked it all the way down to low, everything low, and even rendered the game at 50% resolution. Still only got 45fps. I have some results from Afterburner on the measurements of card data while playing single player and split-screen. I'm confused by the results. In single player mode, the card favors 70c and fluctuates the fans to keep it around there. The clock speeds stayed at around 1250, which is the core clock for this card. Memory speeds were a solid 2000mhz and GPU usage was 100% with some dips. It used up almost the whole 8gb of VRAM in this card. The CPU I own has 6 cores, and the last 5 cores are being used while gaming. They are jumping everywhere, see pictures. In split-screen mode though, the card seems to hover around 50c and the fans are at much lower speeds. Core clock is still at around 1250 and memory speeds are still 2000. GPU usage has a lot more spikes though, not hitting 100% as much. The memory usage also seems to be much less. The CPU usage seems to be on average a little higher but still bounces around a lot. See pictures. The basic sense of what I'm getting at here is that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU. My CPU is the AMD FX-6300 6 core. I originally thought that it was the VRAM and memory speed of the Sapphire card that was bottle-necking me, so I figured that my new rx 480 with 8GB of high performing VRAM would solve this issue, but still the difference between medium settings and low settings doesn't change the fps in the slightest. Is that whats going on here? Is my CPU bottle-necking my GPU? If so, should I get a refund and upgrade my CPU while keeping my old card? And if that is the case, what do you recommend for a CPU/Motherboard upgrade? I've got a budget of 300 at the time, and that new Ryzen line-up is looking pretty good to me. Thanks guys, Bryan
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