Hello everyone,
I play a lot of battlefield 3 and Skyrim with tons of mods, but last week i found one of my RAM sticks being the problem of several blue screens, so i ordered another stick that had a different heat spreader but same voltage and speed. Once it was installed i thought i can play battlefield 3 at my nice high settings and running it around 40-60 fps that i have missed for an entire week (Thinking my ram was slowing my computer down and dropping frames.) but now the frames have dropped dramatically between 20-35. Even on low it would raise the fps and cap about 35 sometimes.
What is happening that could be creating such a drop in performance? Is my gpu growing much slower over use? I plan on purchasing a 7950/7970 but im afraid my video card might not be the problem.
(Skyrim plays at 60fps and drops to 40 in combat with mods on)
My specs:
HDD: Western Digital 500gb 7200rpm
Motherboard: MSI p67a-c43 (b3)
PSU: Antec 620w
RAM: Corsair vengeance (2x4gb) 8gb 1600mhz
Video Card: MSI Gtx 550 ti (Factory overclocked)
CPU: i3-2120 (Hyper threading on)
Battlefield 3 Settings (Now at low due to trying to bring fps up):
Resolution:1600x900 60Hz
Graphic Quality: Custom
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Low
Effect Quality: High
Mesh Quality: High
Terrain Quality: high
Terrain Decoration: High
Antialiasing Deferred: Off
Antialiasing Post: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Anistrophic Filtering: x16
Ambient Occulsion: Off (Sometimes SSAO whenever im in the mood)
I play a lot of battlefield 3 and Skyrim with tons of mods, but last week i found one of my RAM sticks being the problem of several blue screens, so i ordered another stick that had a different heat spreader but same voltage and speed. Once it was installed i thought i can play battlefield 3 at my nice high settings and running it around 40-60 fps that i have missed for an entire week (Thinking my ram was slowing my computer down and dropping frames.) but now the frames have dropped dramatically between 20-35. Even on low it would raise the fps and cap about 35 sometimes.
What is happening that could be creating such a drop in performance? Is my gpu growing much slower over use? I plan on purchasing a 7950/7970 but im afraid my video card might not be the problem.
(Skyrim plays at 60fps and drops to 40 in combat with mods on)
My specs:
HDD: Western Digital 500gb 7200rpm
Motherboard: MSI p67a-c43 (b3)
PSU: Antec 620w
RAM: Corsair vengeance (2x4gb) 8gb 1600mhz
Video Card: MSI Gtx 550 ti (Factory overclocked)
CPU: i3-2120 (Hyper threading on)
Battlefield 3 Settings (Now at low due to trying to bring fps up):
Resolution:1600x900 60Hz
Graphic Quality: Custom
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Low
Effect Quality: High
Mesh Quality: High
Terrain Quality: high
Terrain Decoration: High
Antialiasing Deferred: Off
Antialiasing Post: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Anistrophic Filtering: x16
Ambient Occulsion: Off (Sometimes SSAO whenever im in the mood)