solving the problem cpu and new setup

[lofthouse1982]

Hi all,

I have recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU from a Asus P5n-E SLI with Intel quad core q6600 processor and geforce 550 ti graphics card and 6gb ram

to

AMD A10-6790K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 3992 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) and 8gb ram.

before on the old board i was able to play most games on medium to high graphics including battlefield 3,4 and Fifa 14,15.

Now with the upgraded board and better graphics card I'm struggling to even start a game in Fifa 15 but I'm able to run battlefield 4. Just a lately i have started getting serous lag on games and not sure why. My CPU hits 100 and my power settings are on max performance.

even put bios to default, all windows updates have downloaded and installed, even changed nvidia settings to make Fifa run a BIT BETTER...

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT THANKS

 

[13thmonkey]

are you using you 550ti? or the built in gpu?

 

[hysteria357]

what is the new video card?

 

[lofthouse1982]

Hi

the new card is a

geforce GTX 750 ti dual storm 2048mb gddr5 graphics card.

 

[13thmonkey]

That description of the APU is wrong, it's got more than 1 core, not sure where you are getting that from?
Did you reinstall windows?

 

[lofthouse1982]

yeah had to reinstall as i had deleted some files and it wouldn't boot properly or didn't sometimes.

I typed msconfig and changed the processor to 2 in the drop down menu. and even the software that came with graphics card had a booster on which moved to 4.2ghz and still it didn't make any difference.

 

[lofthouse1982]

according to my system info it says

Processor AMD A10-6790K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 3992 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

is that not correct?

it says this for my graphics card

Adapter Type GeForce GTX 750 Ti, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

 

[13thmonkey]

why fiddle with MSconfig, change that back to auto. I think that it is a 4 core 4 thread product. It fits with your symptoms that you are using fewer cores than you should be. How many are showing in task manager?

 

[13thmonkey]

I assume that your monitor is plugged into the 750ti?

 

[lofthouse1982]

I'd seen it on a website to improve performance. i have put to auto but the box only has 2 cores for the options in the drop down menu.

on task manager it has 4 boxes
cpu total 100%
service cpu usage 100%
cpu 0 @0%
cpu 1 @100%

im only on desktop and have firefox open.

does this help?

 

[lofthouse1982]

yeah its plugged in via dvi to the graphics card.

thanks

 

[13thmonkey]

I'd seen it on a website to improve performance. i have put to auto but the box only has 2 cores for the options in the drop down menu.

on task manager it has 4 boxes
cpu total 100%
service cpu usage 100%
cpu 0 @0%
cpu 1 @100%

im only on desktop and have firefox open.

does this help?

I think you should seeing cpu's 0-3
does your bios limit the number of cores?
have you rebooted after msconfig set to auto?

 

[lofthouse1982]

When boards were changed I did reinstall windows, and when I changed the processor on my new board which was a Amd A6-6400 I did not. Just disconnected power and replaced with the new one.

 

[lofthouse1982]

Not sure about bios, but no change after restarting the computer.

 

[13thmonkey]

on device manager what does it show?

 

[lofthouse1982]

Same as before 100% And 0-1

 

[13thmonkey]

sorry device manager not task manager

 

[lofthouse1982]

Still the same.

 

[13thmonkey]

in device manager you need to update the drivers for your cpu, possibly deleting them first and then refreshing to find the new one. You do know what I mean by device manager?

 

[madmatt30]

that apu is definitely a physical 4 module 4 core

 

[13thmonkey]

fixed then I take it?

 

[lofthouse1982]

Hi, all fixed now thanks. It was 4 core and after installing new cpu properly its now running like new.

Thank you all for the help

 

[13thmonkey]

No probs.