Greetings gentlemen!
I built this computer last week, and it is generally awesome. I am running into some FPS stuttering issues and a general disappointment in the abilities of my ASUS EAH5970- I'm at work so doing all of these specs, etc, off the top of my head.
CPU: i7 3.68 55c@load in games
Mobo: Gigabyte x5a-ud3r
RAM: 6gigs triple channel G.Skill running at 7-7-7-20 ?1388? (due to overclock, x10 modifier takes it to 1700)
GPU: ASUS EAH5970- stock
Boot: OCZ Vertex 60gb
HDD: Seagate 500gb
OS: Win 7 x64
Resolution: 1920x1200
-CCC AI on Advanced
-AA 8x (disabled in the game)
-AF Auto
-I have the fan set at 50% during these two- temps never even touch 60c, even at 95% load on both cores
-CPU never gets close to 70%
-RAM load pegs at about 50%
1) Heaven 2.0:
The heaven 2.0 runs marginally well at the top settings (DX11, AA 8, score of about 1200?) with a framerate in the high 30's. Two problems- First, I set tessellation on "extreme" on the main menu, but when the benchmark starts, the tessellation icon is greyed out, and the results show that tessellation is off. How do I get tessellation on extreme in order to fully test the card?
The second (and really the main problem) with the heaven benchmark is that roughly every 10 seconds I get serious framerate loss- my lowest FPS in the benchmark above was only 4.6, due to the .5-1 second FPS drop that I get every 10 seconds. Could this just be bad drivers?
2) GTA IV: Episodes
I'm generally disappointed in the framerates I'm getting with this game at "Very High" settings. Framerate ranges from 70 fps all the way down to 10 fps, and at some points even locks up for 3-4 seconds. Additionally, I get similar fps drops every 10 seconds as in the heaven benchmark. Furthermore, the total amount of memory that the game allots to me is 1024mb- is it not taking into account the memory of both cards? I am running in fullscreen mode, and both cores show 95% load when playing in the open/explosions/shooting, etc.
Could this be a driver issue as well? I've done a full driver wipe to 10.4- I can't install 10.5 because it locks my system up when going through the "checking hardware" phase of the installation.
The GPU works amazingly on Mass Effect 2 and HoN (not that either of those are extremely GPU intense- but i don't get any stuttering or major fps drops... maybe once in a blue moon in Mass Effect 2)
If you have any ideas please let me know- I'm generally dissatisfied with the 5970 at the moment (for it's price tag) and may return it in the next day or two if I can't get it fixed.
Thank you!
I built this computer last week, and it is generally awesome. I am running into some FPS stuttering issues and a general disappointment in the abilities of my ASUS EAH5970- I'm at work so doing all of these specs, etc, off the top of my head.
CPU: i7 3.68 55c@load in games
Mobo: Gigabyte x5a-ud3r
RAM: 6gigs triple channel G.Skill running at 7-7-7-20 ?1388? (due to overclock, x10 modifier takes it to 1700)
GPU: ASUS EAH5970- stock
Boot: OCZ Vertex 60gb
HDD: Seagate 500gb
OS: Win 7 x64
Resolution: 1920x1200
-CCC AI on Advanced
-AA 8x (disabled in the game)
-AF Auto
-I have the fan set at 50% during these two- temps never even touch 60c, even at 95% load on both cores
-CPU never gets close to 70%
-RAM load pegs at about 50%
1) Heaven 2.0:
The heaven 2.0 runs marginally well at the top settings (DX11, AA 8, score of about 1200?) with a framerate in the high 30's. Two problems- First, I set tessellation on "extreme" on the main menu, but when the benchmark starts, the tessellation icon is greyed out, and the results show that tessellation is off. How do I get tessellation on extreme in order to fully test the card?
The second (and really the main problem) with the heaven benchmark is that roughly every 10 seconds I get serious framerate loss- my lowest FPS in the benchmark above was only 4.6, due to the .5-1 second FPS drop that I get every 10 seconds. Could this just be bad drivers?
2) GTA IV: Episodes
I'm generally disappointed in the framerates I'm getting with this game at "Very High" settings. Framerate ranges from 70 fps all the way down to 10 fps, and at some points even locks up for 3-4 seconds. Additionally, I get similar fps drops every 10 seconds as in the heaven benchmark. Furthermore, the total amount of memory that the game allots to me is 1024mb- is it not taking into account the memory of both cards? I am running in fullscreen mode, and both cores show 95% load when playing in the open/explosions/shooting, etc.
Could this be a driver issue as well? I've done a full driver wipe to 10.4- I can't install 10.5 because it locks my system up when going through the "checking hardware" phase of the installation.
The GPU works amazingly on Mass Effect 2 and HoN (not that either of those are extremely GPU intense- but i don't get any stuttering or major fps drops... maybe once in a blue moon in Mass Effect 2)
If you have any ideas please let me know- I'm generally dissatisfied with the 5970 at the moment (for it's price tag) and may return it in the next day or two if I can't get it fixed.
Thank you!