Really low performance (FPS Drops) - MSI R9 270 Gaming Edition

Jun 8, 2014
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Hello to everyone...

Im looking for help in this forum cause in all my years studying and investigating any matter related to technology (Computers to be more specific) in the web ive always found this community as one of the most helpful thanks to its members... always solved my problems guiding myself through your threads... well enough with the introduction hehe heres my problem

A month ago i bought a new PC for gaming with the following specs:

- CPU: AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz (Stock fan... so no OC for now)
- Motherboard: Gygabyte GA 970A
- Video Card: MSI R9 270 Gaming Edition (Non X)
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GBx2 @ 1333Mhz
- Power Supply: EVGA 600B Bronze Cert
- Hard Drive: Western Digitan WD32 320GB
- SO: Win7 x64

Well while i play games like Crysis 3 or Far Cry 4 on Medium settings @ 768p (Not even 1080p) i cant even pass 20 Fps, this is not acceptable, i check a lot of reviews and benchmarks on the internet about this card and a lot of people with the same specs can play those games at very high settings! wich is not possible for me, i cant even get 60 fps stable on games like torchlight 2 or League of Legends... thing that didnt happen when i was using my I3 rig with an HD 5830.

I updated drivers, did a fresh windows install (tried Win 8.1 and went back to 7), disabled power saving features on my MOBO (C6 Core State) and enabled HPC, unparked CPUs... Dont know what else to do... even ran malware byte in case of something like a virus putting my CPU on high loads...

Hope you guys can help me here... what else can i do... am i missing something here?


 
Flash your BIOS back to stock, instead of changing the settings. That probably didn't help.

If I had to guess, something hardware is not working correctly. Most likely your videocard.

I'd run Prime95 and see if your CPU fails the test

Than I'd run a hard benchmark, like 3DMark and see if you get a reasonable FPS. You might want to try another videocard, like your old 5830, and see if it improves performance
Or put the current card in your old computer and see if it improves performance there.

Make sure you have the videocard in the right PCIe slot. One is dedicated for single card performance, generally.
 
I went with AMD cause i was on a budget, couldnt afford an intel CPU and i read a lot of reviews about AMD... it was not that bad.

Ill try Prime95... my old 5830 fan broke so i cant use it for tests... if i put the 270 in my old computer the I3 just bottlnecks the hell out of my card, i tried and according to msi afterburner my gpu load only can get to 55-60%.

The card is installed on the Pcie X16 the first one...
 


Don't believe everything you read on this site. It's full of AMD fanboys that picked the wrong side of the war. Intel / Nvidia is the top and although they do overcharge; you get the best.
 


Except Intel lies.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2842647/intel-will-pay-you-15-to-settle-claims-it-fudged-pentium-4-benchmarks.html
 


Well my decision was based on a lot of reviews... not just threads on this forum... lets place all that fanboy war aside and please just help me to solve my problem please...
 


Was speaking from experience of using both.
 


Surely you don't mean only in Windows?
 


My MOBO is UD3P... Sorry havent said that, dont know how i forgot to do that, anyway i bought that MOBO cause a lot reviewers said it was a great MOBO for overclocking (planning to after i buy a new CPU cooler) cause of its power phase 8+2 and its VRMs heatsinks... which for what i read a heated VRM can cause problems in performance.

After a 30 minutes test i stopped it... didnt know what to expect exacty or how long should that be running, i selected the first option, the "maximun heat" one, i guess everything went fine cause all workers windows said that tests had been passed and the max temp that HWMonitor registered on my CPU was 52C... Really dont Know exactly how should ir run prime95 (New software for me)

I flashed my BIOS back to default again... but that caused some drops on League of Legends

Sorry for bad english... not my first language
 


no, linux as well. and yes nvidia has a thing for linux but you can make do with what you run on it.
 


Sounds OK

Are you overclocking?
What revision of this board do you have? There's three, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.6
 


Sorry for the late answer i was away from home for work, i have the rev1.0 and no im not OCing my CPU, kind of scary of the really high noise that the stock fan is making... so i wont try any OC on my CPU until i get an aftermarket fan.

Well as an update to my situation i installed msi afterburner and started checking the values like memory clock and core clock while running games like LoL or Tomb Raider, and i noticed that in those fast fps drops my clocks were going from 1050 to 450 just like that and in those moments of course the game almost freezes, so reading a lot about GPU throttling for power saving matters and low GPU usage and some others stuff i cant remember, i found a thread on a forum (cant remember wich one it was) talking about using unofficial OC on MSI AB, increasing power limits ti 20, forcing constant voltage and disabling powerplay support. I applied these settings on MSI AB and a little OC on my GPU at stock voltages with the help of valley for benchmark and other monitoring tools and those fps drops went away, im getting 60fps stable once again on LoL and an improvement on demanding games like Tomb Raider or Batman Arkham Origins.

After a lot of testing ive just realized that the card itself does not meet my expectations, the low fps on high end games for me its the result of just a decent card trying to run a demanding game. Its OCd now and im not satisfied with its performance, on top of that AMD drivers are kind of unstables... each update fixes a game like Far Cry 4 and give me a new issue with another game.

Im planning to change my videocard for a GTX 970... my sister is looking for a new videocard for work (Graphic Designer) and some casual low demanding gaming so i think im going to sell this one and just save some money to get the GTX 970



 


Rev 1.0 doesn't support that chip, that's probably the issue at this point.
 


What chip? dont understand

 


that link is for another motherboard... mine is UD3P and according to the website FX8320 is supported

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4717
 
Well just to close this thread i just overclock my cpu to 4.2 and my graphics to 1050 Core Clock and 1500 for the Memory Clock, everything is running nice and stable no issues at all... A lot of thanks to Alec Mowat for the help, thanks!