Is my A4 6300 limiting my GT 730?

[azula3]

Hi. Recently I was looking for a GPU for my PC and I saw benchmarks of GT 730 running DotA 2 around 103 FPS on medium settings with 1920x1080 resolution. Since I only intend to use it to play lightweight titles, I bought it. Unfortunately I am only getting around 25 – 40 FPS even on the lowest settings with even just 1366x768 resolution. I know its not a very good card but my question is, is my A4 6300 or 4GB RAM bottlenecking my GT 730? By the way, its a Palit GT 730 DDR5 1GB.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
While playing earlier, I noticed that DotA 2 started around 40+ FPS but it reduced to around 25 FPS about 20 minutes.

 

[clutchc]

It shouldn't be. The 3.7GHz quad core should be able to handle that card and slightly better. Try disabling as much stuff that runs in the background when Win starts as you can. Run that stuff on an as-need basis instead.
Then run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Is your GT 730 the 64 bit version or the 128 bit version?

 

[azula3]

It shouldn't be. The 3.7GHz quad core should be able to handle that card and slightly better. Try disabling as much stuff that runs in the background when Win starts as you can. Run that stuff on an as-need basis instead.
Then run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Is your GT 730 the 64 bit version or the 128 bit version?

Uhm.. the A4 6300 is a dual-core APU. Also I am using Ubuntu instead of Windows because I'm kind of broke at the moment, haha. And it is the 64 bit DDR5 version. Thanks for the fast response.

 

[geofelt]

The A4-6300 has one core with two threads that are relatively weak.
Passmark is 2218 with single thread 1368.
By comparison, the cheapest Intel skylake, the $43 G3900 dual core has a rating of 3381 and 1711 single threaded.

Likely, your cpu is holding you back

Since you have a discrete graphics card, I think there may be some bios settings to disable the graphics portion of the apu and give it to the compute portion of the apu.
I am no expert on this, so do some google work on tuning an apu.

 

[tsnor]

Assuming you want more CPU, You may be able to buy a used AMD CPU on ebay that fits your MB. You'd need to get one that comes with a heat sink, not sure your existing stock A4 heat sink will handle a hotter chip. You'd also need $10 worth of 'arctic silver 5 thermal paste. Look at a few videos of swapping AMD CPUs on youtube.

For example, an Athlon-II-X4-750K used is $50 on ebay, and is 10% faster single thread and 2X faster multithread.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Athlon-II-X4-750K-vs-AMD-A4-6300-APU/1548vsm10639

Update: forget the CPU hierarchy chart link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

 

[azula3]

Assuming you want more CPU, You may be able to buy a used AMD CPU on ebay that fits your MB. You'd need to get one that comes with a heat sink, not sure your existing stock A4 heat sink will handle a hotter chip. You'd also need $10 worth of 'arctic silver 5 thermal paste. Look at a few videos of swapping AMD CPUs on youtube.

For example, an Athlon-II-X4-750K used is $50 on ebay, and is 10% faster single thread and 2X faster multithread.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Athlon-II-X4-750K-vs-AMD-A4-6300-APU/1548vsm10639

Update: forget the CPU hierarchy chart link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

I have a Gigabyte F2A68HM-S1 Motherboard. Can you recommend a CPU / APU under $80?

 

[tsnor]

CLUTCH, you still here? Can you give any insight on whether OP will see a difference if he stays with the 730GT and upgrades CPU to an 860K?

I think this would be your choice: $70 ( on 3day sale from $80) new Athlon X4 860k with AMD quiet cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113410&cm_re=x4_860k-_-19-113-410-_-Product

It is supported by your MB at the "F1" firmware level. Get the the latest BIOS installed for your MB before swapping CPUs. Double check I read the table correctly: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=5263

 

[clutchc]

CLUTCH, you still here? Can you give any insight on whether OP will see a difference if he stays with the 730GT and upgrades CPU to an 860K?

Yes, definitely. I was assuming his APU was a quad core, but I see I was mistaken.