New Rig Low FPS

[Shills2618]

Hey Guys,

I have recently purchased & built a PC consisting of

i7 4770k (3.5)
Z87-PRO MOBO
16GB ballistics RAM
Readon HD 7770 1gb
Running at 1920x1080 Res

I've noticed I don't have much of a performance increase in games or standard use than to when I was using an i3. I feel like the GPU is capable of handling the different games (Tell me if I'm wrong) I want to run on it, specifically ARMA 3 & Dayz. I was also surprised at my low FPS in Battlefield 4. Most games I can run at around medium-high settings with low AA but I feel like I should be getting a lot better for specs of my machine.

I know I haven't given a lot of detail in my build but I'm at work without access to everything and was just curious whether there was a common problem or something?

I have done all the standard things, updating drivers etc. So any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

 

[pm4]

Your bottleneck for example for Battlefield 4 will be your GPU.
You can look here on comparison of different cards and details on battlefield 4 (they use i5 in that test setup but it should be no difference between i7 and i5 as i dont think that BF4 use all 8 threads of i7).

On most of modern games if you got i3,i5,i7 and you got low fps it will be in GPU. There are ofc exceptions as some games are more CPU heavy but most need higher gpu.

EDIT: Part of that review/test i posted is also comparison of CPU effect there you can nicely see that BF use probalby just up to 2 threads/cores and if there was no difference if you had i5 on 3.8 ghz or 4.2ghz.

So if you want higher FPS > upgrade GPU.

 

[Zivz]

Well honestly, the graphics card you have is fine for what it's priced. But compared to what you want to run it just doesn't really meet the requirements. You should've went for the 7850 or 7990, which would do alot better for what you are requiring of the card.

 

[lowriderflow]

it is absolutely the GPU... you paired a very dated GPU with a top of the line setup and the fastest CPU/Chipset.

For example, the 7770 scores about 2000 in passmark... a gtx770 scores 6000, a gtx780 scores 8000. those are the type of cards you'd typically see paired with an i7 4770k

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

 

[chargeit]

Well honestly, the graphics card you have is fine for what it's priced. But compared to what you want to run it just doesn't really meet the requirements. You should've went for the 7850 or 7990, which would do alot better for what you are requiring of the card.

=D

A 7990 should meet his needs...


You need a better GPU... Go with R9 270 / 270x / 280x / 290 / 290x if AMD... GTX 760 / 770 / 780 / 780 ti if Nvidia... All should be fairly good choices for your system and needs.


*I highlighted what I consider the best options in red.