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Bolodin
By Bolodin
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So I built my PC 4 years ago and upgraded some components later on, my specs:

CPU: Athlon X4 845 @ 3,9 GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3H

GPU: HD 7870 @ 1185 GHz

RAM: Corsair Vengance DDR3 16GB

PSU: Corsair CX650M

a Sandisk SSD and a normal HDD...

 

Now to my problem: I used to play games like Battlefield 3 and 4 or some MMORPGs on 1920x1200 and got around 50-60 FPS so i didn't really care that much, so i bought a 1440p Monitor and thought im gonna be able to play games in 30 FPS at least.

After a while I noticed that gaming in 1440p was a pretty bad idea so i decided to turn settings down to 1080p, when i realised the crappy performance of 20 FPS on low didn't really change. In fact it wouldnn't change much, even if i went down to 800x600...

I thought it could be a CPU bottleneck maybe because the X4 845 is pretty much as low as it gets, but then I did some research and saw that even the x4 845 paired with an rx 460 can run games in 1080p smoothly. 

And now I sit here wondering what to do.

Help.

Thanks in advance.

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8 minutes ago, Bolodin said:

So I built my PC 4 years ago and upgraded some components later on, my specs:

CPU: Athlon X4 845 @ 3,9 GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3H

GPU: HD 7870 @ 1185 GHz

RAM: Corsair Vengance DDR3 16GB

PSU: Corsair CX650M

a Sandisk SSD and a normal HDD...

 

Now to my problem: I used to play games like Battlefield 3 and 4 or some MMORPGs on 1920x1200 and got around 50-60 FPS so i didn't really care that much, so i bought a 1440p Monitor and thought im gonna be able to play games in 30 FPS at least.

After a while I noticed that gaming in 1440p was a pretty bad idea so i decided to turn settings down to 1080p, when i realised the crappy performance of 20 FPS on low didn't really change. In fact it wouldnn't change much, even if i went down to 800x600...

I thought it could be a CPU bottleneck maybe because the X4 845 is pretty much as low as it gets, but then I did some research and saw that even the x4 845 paired with an rx 460 can run games in 1080p smoothly. 

And now I sit here wondering what to do.

Help.

Thanks in advance.

 

why did you ever think that 1440p was going to be a good idea? not meaning to come off as mean but that seems so random

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try tweaking the settings like anisotropic filtering or textures, resolution should be the last setting to turn down IMO  :3

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1 minute ago, asapansh said:

why did you ever think that 1440p was going to be a good idea? not meaning to come off as mean but that seems so random

that is a good question, I wanted to have more visual space for normal work and also an IPS panel because my old monitor's TN was annoying me pretty badly so i decided to buy a good looking monitor wirh a higher resolution. I wasn't really thinking about gaming performance.

2 minutes ago, TiberiusMoon said:

try tweaking the settings like anisotropic filtering or textures, resolution should be the last setting to turn down IMO  :3

As I said, everthing is always down to the lowest possible setting in all resolutions.

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