I just dont understand why, I have tried bc2, shogun 2, mw2 and civ5 and they all seem to have worse performance than before, mw2 dips into 29 fps sometmes and thats mw2! I have tried everything, reinstalling nvidia drivers, disabling c3,c6 and c1e in the bios and nothing seems to work. I am at the end of my rope here and quite demoralized can anyone help me here?
Old rig
q6600@3ghz
4g ddr2 ram
ultra xvs psu
same 260gtx videocard
Like I said I properly installed my drivers, however for my chipset drivers I installed from the disk, do you think I should DL the newest ones from the internet?
Also I am aware that my 260gtx is limiting my system but I do not understand why games are running WORSE than before.
Like I said I properly installed my drivers, however for my chipset drivers I installed from the disk, do you think I should DL the newest ones from the internet?
Also I am aware that my 260gtx is limiting my system but I do not understand why games are running WORSE than before.
generally rule of thumb with drivers is newer the better.
because ur cpu is being bottle necked so your performance is decreased. might want to save up for a new card or something imo. i bought my gtx 570 and it was pricey at first but so worth it. oc it too
because ur cpu is being bottle necked so your performance is decreased. might want to save up for a new card or something imo. i bought my gtx 570 and it was pricey at first but so worth it. oc it too
That makes zero sense.
If the GPU is the limiting factor, performance will be the same. Same GPU, same performance.
because ur cpu is being bottle necked so your performance is decreased. might want to save up for a new card or something imo. i bought my gtx 570 and it was pricey at first but so worth it. oc it too
First of all it is overclocked to 4.5ghz. Second why would my cpu being bottle necked give me LOWER performance than my old q6600 @3ghz? At the very worst it should give me the same performance I was experiencing before
because ur cpu is being bottle necked so your performance is decreased. might want to save up for a new card or something imo. i bought my gtx 570 and it was pricey at first but so worth it. oc it too
For me, that has no sense. If the GPU is the same and the CPU is better he should obtain at least, the same performance.
My girlfriend has updated his Q6600 to a 2500k and every game run smoother. She is using a HD5770 (the GPU that she had with the Q6600).
Do you have anything plugged into your other PCI-E slots, maybe the slot with your GPU is running less than x16. Make sure your GPU is in one of the top two PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots,
You should also try monitoring CPU/GPU usage and freq. during games, also keep an eye on your temps. Something could be downclocking it self or throttling.
OP do you have any benchmarks to run to show? Like 3dmark or crysis or something?
Sorry I do not have 3dmark or crysis, I however tested it out some MW2 multiplayer and I get anywhere from 28-50fps which is really sort of sad, I dont remember my old rig going below 40
Maybe your graphics card is on its way out. You should do a benchmark of some sort. try 3dmark 11. Then do a cpu benchmark to make sure it's performing like it should.
There are a lot of factors that could be causing this.
What else other than your mobo and CPU did you upgrade? Did you change OS?
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