AMD 7770 low FPS

[pwner5889]

Alright, so I bought a pair of 2 AMD XFX 7770 Core Edition. Anyways, I keep getting extremely low FPS in all of my games, namely BF3 and Hitman Absolution. I keep getting 8 to 20 FPS on the lowest settings. Doesn't matter what I try, I ran only one card, same thing. I ran with crossfire, same thing. I ran AMD's driver uninstaller, and updated to the latest Beta drivers. I am still getting the same problem. I have no idea what i'm supposed to do because I should not be having any issues with these cards. Here are my specs.

 

AMD FX 4100 Stock Clocks, with a Corsair H55 Water Cooler.

16GB of DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Gaming Memory

Dual AMD 7770s

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with the latest Beta BIOS

Corsair 650W 80+ PSU

 

If it helps any, my case is a Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced. Ambient temps are only 75 degrees F. If anyone can help me that would be awesome! Thanks!

[Langdon]

That's strange, best I can think of is a CPU bottleneck but probably not.

Have you tried closing all unnecessary background applications before gaming and seeing if that helps?

[Sarcasm]

The better question is why you have two 7770s, but moving on. 

 

 

You sure you have a Crossfire bridge in place?

[pwner5889]

The better question is why you have two 7770s, but moving on. 

 

 

You sure you have a Crossfire bridge in place?

Yes, I have tried switching the bridge around and i'm still getting the same problem.

[TheSLSAMG]

No offense, but why did you buy 2 bottom of the line GPUs, an expensive motherboard and a low end processor?

 

And maybe, as Sarcasm said, you may not have a Crossfire bridge in place.

 

Did you activate Crossfire mode in the drivers?

[pwner5889]

No offense, but why did you buy 2 bottom of the line GPUs, an expensive motherboard and a low end processor?

 

And maybe, as Sarcasm said, you may not have a Crossfire bridge in place.

 

Did you activate Crossfire mode in the drivers?

That's all the money I had at the time of building my PC. I plan on upgrading my CPU soon anyways.

[nokturrduk84]

while gaming, minimize game and check in task manager if cpu is loaded 100%. If yes, it's making a bottleneck, if not then it's GPU problem for sure. So, first thing you have to do is, take off one card and check fps with single gpu. If fps is good, then this problem comes from crossfire...

[pwner5889]

while gaming, minimize game and check in task manager if cpu is loaded 100%. If yes, it's making a bottleneck, if not then it's GPU problem for sure. So, first thing you have to do is, take off one card and check fps with single gpu

I did, I only have one card in right now. I tried both GPUs one at a time and I am getting the same issue.

[TheSLSAMG]

That's all the money I had at the time of building my PC. I plan on upgrading my CPU soon anyways.

 

$220 could have had you a GTX 660/R7870/R7950

 

But other than Crossfire not being activated in the drivers, I am stumped. Good luck with finding the solution.

[nokturrduk84]

I did, I only have one card in right now. I tried both GPUs one at a time and I am getting the same issue.

did you try to switch the card? Maybe problem is in one of them?

[pwner5889]

$220 could have had you a GTX 660/R7870/R7950

 

But other than Crossfire not being activated in the drivers, I am stumped. Good luck with finding the solution.

I'm starting to think they just might be lemons" IDK :-/

[pwner5889]

did you try to switch the card? Maybe problem is in one of them?

Yeah, I did that.

[nokturrduk84]

the other thing you can do is, install other video card, to ensure problem comes from gpu. If you have neighbor who can lend video card for a test...

[Sarcasm]

Or you're trying to run lowest triple surround 1080p.

[nokturrduk84]

and what about cpu? How's it working in background while game is running?

[pwner5889]

and what about cpu? How's it working in background while game is running?

CPU is 100% load. :-/ that's probably why then..... :-/ Alright.... Guess I gotta overclock then.

[nokturrduk84]

okay, try and tell us if overclocking helps...

[upliftsleet1974]

CPU is 100% load. :-/ that's probably why then..... :-/ Alright.... Guess I gotta overclock then.

You can try that but you may want to look at getting a new cpu....

[nokturrduk84]

I didn't know amd cpu's were so weak... And it's 4 core cpu, right? That's why Intel is leading brand in cpu's. Get Intel cpu next time mate.

[pwner5889]

Other people with my same setup is getting more fps than me. Even at 4.5GHz its still getting the same issues. :-/

[pwner5889]

Nevermind!! I finally got it to work. Had to overclock my CPU and bump up the voltage quite a bit. Works fine now.