Don't seem to get the right perfomance

[Tiduas]

Hello everyone!

I bought a new computer for about 8 months ago from a company in Sweden (komplett.se) that build a lot of computers. I didn't have time to properly use it for gaming much back then but lately I've been using it more. Unfortunately I don't really feel that it gives me the smooth perfomance it should, considering the components that are in there.

First, let's look at what's inside the case:

Power: Corsair CX 750M, 750W PSU
Processor: AMD FX-8320 Black Edition
Cooling system: Cooler Master Seidon 120M CPU
CPU: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P, Socket-AM3+
RAM: Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB
Graphic Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5
SDD used for gaming: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM (540/520MB/s read/write)
HDD used for other stuff: WD Desktop Green 1TB

It feels like something is holding the computer back when playing a lot of games. Games I've tried in the past 8 months are for example: World of Warcraft, Wildstar and Diablo III. None of these games perfomed very well. In WoW for example (at normal graphic settings mind you), when playing Raids with a lot of other people everything runs extremely slow and goes down to around 10-20 FPS. Being inside buildings and such with not many people around me give me around 80-90 FPS sometimes. Mostly it run at around 30-40 FPS which is still low. I've tried to play around with the graphical settings in most of the games I've tried but it doesn't really change much.

I have no clue where to start. Are there some known problems with the hardware I've bought or are there anything I can do to increase perfomance on my computer? (which I think should perform much more than this).

 

[ONKI]

hi,

I had almost the same config just with a 8350 and a R9 280 x
I was facing the similar problem what ur facing now, I exactly get ur feeling.
you know that ur comp can pull but it actually does not do what it shows in paper.

I tried every alternatives but at the end switched to an intel cpu.

its ur CPU that is under performing believe me, the rest is fine...
so its better to change cpu n mobo.

try using ur other pc components to ur friends pc who has an intel built..im sure ul not face any problem...
I hope ur getting wat im trying to say.

 

[Tiduas]

hi,
I tried every alternatives but at the end switched to an intel cpu.

its ur CPU that is under performing believe me, the rest is fine...
so its better to change cpu n mobo.

So it might be the CPU that's holding back the computer? I've never tried to overclock or stuff like that, is it something I should try? The CPU wasn't that cheap so I thought it would perform a lot better than this.

 

[ONKI]

I overclocked my 4 ghz proc to 4.8 no difference, if in 10 mins I used to get 5 stutters after overclocking I got 3..
no point
its the processor that's holding ur PC.

 

[mortonww]

Have you installed the latest drivers for your graphics card? Your CPU shouldn't be holding you back that much.

 

[TomThePotato]

Go to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and make sure you have the latest drivers. Even though some games benefit from Intel's stronger cores, it shouldn't be THAT bad..

 

[ONKI]

Go to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and make sure you have the latest drivers. Even though some games benefit from Intel's stronger cores, it shouldn't be THAT bad..

I tried everything when I had the same system, believe me its a waste of time I formatted my comp installed fresh drivers and still no luck.

 

[Tiduas]

Yeah I have all the drivers up to date since I thought that would be the problem as well.

 

[mdocod]

Piledriver running poorly threaded compute intensive DX11 multiplayer games on am AMD GPU will result in terrible FPS minimums. An equally clocked haswell i5 and nvidia GPU will get double the framerate (or better) in these same conditions. The combined effect of haswells superior execution performance in poorly threaded workloads, combined with nvidias superior handling of the DX11 API combine to good effect to handle these games much better.

This is one of those perfect examples of where the perception of getting more value from AMD falls on its face. Unfortunately, thousands of people have had to learn this lesson the hard way, and to make matters worse, there's an AMD shill around every corner of the web ready to spill another load of misinformation and back it up with misleading charts and graphs that have nothing to do with real world gaming workloads.

 

[mortonww]

Piledriver running poorly threaded compute intensive DX11 multiplayer games on am AMD GPU will result in terrible FPS minimums. An equally clocked haswell i5 and nvidia GPU will get double the framerate (or better) in these same conditions. The combined effect of haswells superior execution performance in poorly threaded workloads, combined with nvidias superior handling of the DX11 API combine to good effect to handle these games much better.

This is one of those perfect examples of where the perception of getting more value from AMD falls on its face. Unfortunately, thousands of people have had to learn this lesson the hard way, and to make matters worse, there's an AMD shill around every corner of the web ready to spill another load of misinformation and back it up with misleading charts and graphs that have nothing to do with real world gaming workloads.

No, it still shouldn't be that bad. His CPU is not the problem. Maybe it's network performance?

 

[ONKI]

Piledriver running poorly threaded compute intensive DX11 multiplayer games on am AMD GPU will result in terrible FPS minimums. An equally clocked haswell i5 and nvidia GPU will get double the framerate (or better) in these same conditions. The combined effect of haswells superior execution performance in poorly threaded workloads, combined with nvidias superior handling of the DX11 API combine to good effect to handle these games much better.

This is one of those perfect examples of where the perception of getting more value from AMD falls on its face. Unfortunately, thousands of people have had to learn this lesson the hard way, and to make matters worse, there's an AMD shill around every corner of the web ready to spill another load of misinformation and back it up with misleading charts and graphs that have nothing to do with real world gaming workloads.

No, it still shouldn't be that bad. His CPU is not the problem. Maybe it's network performance?

I am sure of the cpu and how far it can perform....
to be honest there is no silution to this stutter n frame drops until u change ur cpu.
take a i5 or even i3 will give u better results..

 

[mdocod]

No, it still shouldn't be that bad. His CPU is not the problem. Maybe it's network performance?

It's a combination of the CPU and an API/Driver level bottleneck that causes the terrible results. The AMD + AMD combo is really bad for this particular workload.

There's nothing "bad" about the AMD CPU or GPU, they are just very poorly suited to this particular workload for compounding reasons.

It's not like this is the first time I've seen these results. An overclocked i5 haswell on an nvidia GPU can barely keep WoW over 30-35FPS in these same conditions, It shouldn't be any surprise to see an a CPU with substantially slower cores combined with a driver with more compute overhead wind up with 10-15FPS in these conditions.

 

[Tiduas]

No, it still shouldn't be that bad. His CPU is not the problem. Maybe it's network performance?

It's a combination of the CPU and an API/Driver level bottleneck that causes the terrible results. The AMD + AMD combo is really bad for this particular workload.

There's nothing "bad" about the AMD CPU or GPU, they are just very poorly suited to this particular workload for compounding reasons.

It's not like this is the first time I've seen these results. An overclocked i5 haswell on an nvidia GPU can barely keep WoW over 30-35FPS in these same conditions, It shouldn't be any surprise to see an a CPU with substantially slower cores combined with a driver with more compute overhead wind up with 10-15FPS in these conditions.

So in the end, what is the best and cheapest solution to actually get better results? (sorry for the late response btw, was away for quite a few days). I'm really appreciating everyone's answers.

 

[Tiduas]

Also, I did the 3DMark Fire Strike test, maybe it gives anyone more information that it gives me: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4662348