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Powercolor 7870 XT performing pretty badly in games

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My friend has an FX-8320, 8gb RAM, and a Powercolor 7870 XT and he's getting pretty low performance in games. I've tried as much as I can think of and nothing has worked. He's RMA'd it once and has tried multiple different driver versions and it still doesn't perform as it should. He's getting about 30 FPS in NFS:MW 2012 with a few spikes of 60, 10-30 FPS in Amnesia, and I think he said around 15 FPS in Slender. Does anybody know the problem?

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Sounds like a driver issue. Uninstall and cclean drivers, then reinstall.

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Maybe the psu sucks big time? Tried another pcie slot? new mobo bios version?

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Sounds like a driver issue. Uninstall and cclean drivers, then reinstall.

I did that and no change

CPU: AMD A10 5800k Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 RAM: 2x4 DDR3 1600MHz Transcend GPU: HIS Radeon 7770 GHz Edition PSU: Corsair CX430m Case: NZXT Source 210

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Maybe the psu sucks big time? Tried another pcie slot? new mobo bios version?

Would a bad PSU really change the performance that much? It's a CX-500M. Also, we tried another PCI-E slot and nothing.

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Mh, i guess a bad psu would rather cause instant shutdown on loads.

You could try using the GPU in another system and see if you get the same results?

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Would a bad PSU really change the performance that much? It's a CX-500M. Also, we tried another PCI-E slot and nothing.

The CX500 is not such a great PSU.

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But it's not a bad one either. It's more than capable of running a 7870.

I know, but I had a similar CX500 V2 and it failed on me.

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Try using a different GPU in the system and see how it performs. If it performs worse than it should then there is an issue unrelated to his GPU.

He doesn't have any other video cards, and I can't put mine in his system because I'm in another country right now.

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He doesn't have any other video cards, and I can't put mine in his system because I'm in another country right now.

Well there isn't much you can do to diagnose the problem.

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I'm running AMD Phenom II X4 with my Sapphire 7970 Vapor-X Ghz. I once overclocked and it became laggy. I put it back to STOCK levels and I was getting 60+ Frames in Battlefield 3.

Ask him if it's overclocked?

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I'm running AMD Phenom II X4 with my Sapphire 7970 Vapor-X Ghz. I once overclocked and it became laggy. I put it back to STOCK levels and I was getting 60+ Frames in Battlefield 3.

Ask him if it's overclocked?

It's not overclocked at all. I got him to put a little overclock on it (1050MHz) to see if it would make it all of a sudden wake up, because I've seen that happen before, and it did nothing.

CPU: AMD A10 5800k Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 RAM: 2x4 DDR3 1600MHz Transcend GPU: HIS Radeon 7770 GHz Edition PSU: Corsair CX430m Case: NZXT Source 210

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It's not overclocked at all. I got him to put a little overclock on it (1050MHz) to see if it would make it all of a sudden wake up, because I've seen that happen before, and it did nothing.

 For some reason I am now getting 8 fps on Metro Last Light. I set it to low setting and I am still getting 8fps.

Most likely a driver issue -_-

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