Am i bottlenecking ?

[sirsleepzalot]

Hello ! Im kinda new to the PC gaming thing. I just watched a video about bottlenecking on linus's channel. & i wanted to know or hear what you guys think if my rig is being bottlenecked.

I just recently moved into on PC October 2013. So i don't know much so please can you give me some positive feedback [:

 

My issues - okay i just got a new GPU. 780 sc ACX. i upgraded from a Gigabyte R9 270x , when i play bf4 with my new GPU it runs smooth on Ultra settings. but on Bf3 it doesn't. It seems like it's struggling to run on ultra. same goes for high/medium settings. Like it drops to low 30's to high 70's so fast ]: 

Borderlands 2. i just recently got this game off steam. and i was messing around with the video settings. and it struggles to run on ultra/high settings. i even used the GEForce Experience optimized settings. still struggling. Etc Bf3

Is it my CPU ? or is my GPU defective ? i run other games fine. So please help.. or is those games really that demanding ? cause my R9 270x handle pretty fine.

 

PC Specs : Cpu - AMD 6350 Fx six core OC @ 4.2 Ghz 

Fan - Hyper 212 Evo 
Gpu - EVGA 780 SC ACX 3GB 
MB - MSI 970A-G43 
Psu - Corsair 750 Watt 
Hdd - WD blue 1Tb / WD black 1Tb 
SSD - Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 
Ram - Vengeance Blue 8 GB @ 1600hz 
OS - Windows 8.1 64bit 
Case - Thermaltake Chaser A31 Snow Editon 

keyboard - Logitech G105 Gaming 
Mouse - steelseries frost blue 
Monitor - Asus VG248 24" @ 144hz 

[Joshua Ondangan]

I don't have experience on the fx6350 but should be no but could me a little.

[Guest]

Hello ! Im kinda new to the PC gaming thing. I just watched a video about bottlenecking on linus's channel. & i wanted to know or hear what you guys think if my rig is being bottlenecked.

I just recently moved into on PC October 2013. So i don't know much so please can you give me some positive feedback [:

My issues - okay i just got a new GPU. 780 sc ACX. i upgraded from a Gigabyte R9 270x , when i play bf4 with my new GPU it runs smooth on Ultra settings. but on Bf3 it doesn't. It seems like it's struggling to run on ultra. same goes for high/medium settings. Like it drops to low 30's to high 70's so fast ]:

Borderlands 2. i just recently got this game off steam. and i was messing around with the video settings. and it struggles to run on ultra/high settings. i even used the GEForce Experience optimized settings. still struggling. Etc Bf3

Is it my CPU ? or is my GPU defective ? i run other games fine. So please help.. or is those games really that demanding ? cause my R9 270x handle pretty fine.

PC Specs : Cpu - AMD 6350 Fx six core OC @ 4.2 Ghz

Fan - Hyper 212 Evo Gpu - EVGA 780 SC ACX 3GB MB - MSI 970A-G43 Psu - Corsair 750 Watt Hdd - WD blue 1Tb / WD black 1Tb SSD - Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB Ram - Vengeance Blue 8 GB @ 1600hz OS - Windows 8.1 64bit Case - Thermaltake Chaser A31 Snow Editon keyboard - Logitech G105 Gaming Mouse - steelseries frost blue Monitor - Asus VG248 24" @ 144hz

The only thing I can think of is your drivers; download GeForce Experience (Google it), upgrade to the latest **BETA** drivers, and then reboot your PC. you might be using stock MS drivers if you're new to the gaming scene. Those suck.

EDIT- saw you already had GeForce Experience, but try using Beta drivers- I think the standard drivers are already a month old by now. Other than that, make sure all games are updated, as is Windows itself. One last thing to try is uninstall GeForce Experience and your drivers, reboot, and then install them from scratch. Use the 'clean install' option when you re-download them.

[helping]

watch your temps and use the guru3d driver uninstaller then do a fresh driver install.Reinstall the driver and run CPUZ in logging mode during a stressful game. Your CPU with that GPU is not a good combo at all..

Check for CPU throttling, it does not only happen because of CPU temp so ignore CPU temps look at clock rate only. Monitor GPU temp and if it approaches temp target within 3c raise the temp target in GPU boost and set preference to PLL based overclock.

Use Precision X for gpu overclocking and monitoring. Use the GPU clock and usage logging feature in Precision X to verify if your card is underperforming or not and try setting an FPS target of 60 in Precision X.

[sirsleepzalot]

thank you all ! appreciate the feed back. [: 

i'll be coming back here for more help 

[sirsleepzalot]

so is the 6350 a bad combo with the 780 SC Acx ?

[TheBreaker]

so is the 6350 a bad combo with the 780 SC Acx ?

Yea, an 8320 would have been much smarter for the same price. 

[sirsleepzalot]

you think a 8350 Fx will be a good combo ?

[DefinitelyNotAPedophile]

It's fine it might be a driver issue if you have a not so great experience

[clementk]

if you want to test if you have bottleneck run Crysis 3 or Bf4 and look at GPU loads as wel as CPU loads if the CPU is at 99% and GPU is lower then 99% you have cpu bottleneck if your CPU is anything under 90 and GPU is 99% you have GPU bottleneck( The one you want to have )