Solved is my gpu bottle necked

SkipCox February 22, 2014 at 07:49:29

I dont know what's bottlenecking my gpu performance . ...and we don't know a stinkin' thing about your system. Skip Audares Juvo

NT56erbx February 22, 2014 at 08:02:25

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What type of PCIe port is the graphics card hooked up to? I would suggest using at least a PCIe 2.0 x16, anything less would probably hurt your performance considerably. What kind of RAM do you have in the system? How much RAM do you have? What processor do you have? Are you using a conventional HDD or a Solid State? SATA? SATA II? SATA III? Is is IDE or AHCI?

sorry 500gb sata hhd 450w corsair psu pentium g2010 gtx 650 ti 1gb 6gb ddr3 ram @ 1333mhz i thought processor to be the bottleneck but i checked gamedebate ,(can i run it ) for nfs rivals & it stated to be enough for medium-high @ full hd but actually i got good fps at low settings.

OLDISGOOD February 22, 2014 at 08:16:45

ROFL That sounds like a bottleneck to me. Dual-core, at ~2.8Ghz, and the fact that it's a PENTIUM core which is rather outdated all adds up. ~oldie Not everyone can decipher Klingon script... chay' ta' SoH tlhe' vam Doch Daq

in the case you may google out its release date - 2013 even better than core2quad q6600 "pentium g2010 vs q6600 " google it out & see even better than i3 540

@ NT56erbx i am using pcie x16 also sata II or III must not hinder performance.(fps)

NT56erbx February 22, 2014 at 08:40:19

Is it PCIe 2.0? Anyway only having DDR3-1333 is probably a bottleneck too...might look into getting some 1866 (CL 9 ish).

my ram has cas latency 9 & i am not an expert but 1333mhz vs 1600 mhz will make a differ?

i am not sure but i haven't seen a ddr3 motherboard with less than 2.0 PCIe.

motherboard - Intel® Desktop Board DH61HO

riider February 22, 2014 at 15:05:01

The board has a PCIe x16 3.0 slot, what it doesn't have is AHCI support or SATA III. Lack of AHCI shouldn't affect gameplay but it will cause slower data transfer rates. And as long as you don't plan on overclocking, DDR3-1333 is the correct RAM for a Pentium G2010. http://ark.intel.com/products/71071... http://www.intel.com/content/www/us... "That sounds like a bottleneck to me. Dual-core, at ~2.8Ghz, and the fact that it's a PENTIUM core which is rather outdated all adds up" It's Pentium by name but it's not a Pentium core. It's an Ivy Bridge core like used in the Core i3/5/7 but it has less L2 & L3 cache. As far as the CPU goes, you could have done worse: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_loo...

so what may be the bottleneck?

yeah. .... prob solved. it was the 6 pin connector that was loose. thanks guys for suggestions. just got 2800 passmark score.... :)

guys, i just ran nfs rivals & its lagging even at low settings. the recommended gpu for rivals is gtx 660 & i have gtx 650 ti. processor usage is also not 100% , nor gpu usage...... ram 2.5gb used out of 6gb. what 2 do?

riider February 23, 2014 at 06:35:22

There is no major bottleneck. We have no idea what you have installed. It could be your system is infected or you simply have too much garbage loading at startup & running in the background. It could also be your CPU is overheating. Post the temps.

26-28°c is temp. moreover at bottom only required icons (sound, lan,avast etc ) are running start>startup is empty. only required things are installed. ....

also i would like to say that passmark states my ram to be 500mhz but my both rams are 1333mhz each. ...

if using a vga cable with high bandwidth would make a differ (my lcd moniter supports vga only).

riider February 23, 2014 at 09:01:03

"if using a vga cable with high bandwidth would make a differ" No it would not. "start>startup is empty" That's not the place to look. Go to Start > Run, enter MSCONFIG & click OK, then click the Startup tab. Or install CCleaner-Slim (you should be using it regularly anyway), then click Tools > Startup. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/bu... "26-28°c is temp" That's pretty low, are you sure it's the CPU temp & not the system temp? We need to know what it is under full load. "passmark states my ram to be 500mhz but my both rams are 1333mhz each" You need to verify those readings. If it's correct, you'll need to reconfigure your BIOS settings. The RAM frequency should be 667MHz. Try CPUZ: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-... message edited by riider

thanks one of my ram is 667 mhz other 550 mhz from where to check the cpu temp. ? also processor usage strikes 98-100% while playing rivals. after that it comes back to 10%. there is a fan over processor, isn't it enough? as far as processor is concerned , i googled out many sites such as cpuworld, cpuboss , gamedebate, geekbench, passmark etc. .... got conclusion that my processor is more or less = core2quad q6600 (that is recommended for nfs rivals). ok just got a hint geekbench score of my processor & q6600 is same for 32bit , but 64bit score of q6600 is almost double. i shall install 32bit windows message edited by dhanur

riider February 23, 2014 at 10:11:29

"one of my ram is 667 mhz other 550 MHz" When using CPUZ, the Memory tab will tell you the frequency ALL RAM is running at, the SPD tab will tell you what the individual sticks are capable of. 550MHz is not a standard RAM speed so something's not right. Could it be you have different speed RAM sticks paired up together?? When using different speed sticks, they do not run at different speeds - the faster RAM's speed is reduced to meet the speed of the lower speed RAM. Here's a couple of examples: DDR3-1066 + DDR3-1333 = DDR3-1066 (@ 533MHz frequency) DDR3-1333 + DDR3-1600 = DDR3-1333 (@ 667MHz frequency) Try one of these to check your CPU temp readings: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmo... http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ "i shall install 32bit windows" NO! If you do that, you will only be able to use 3-3.5GB of your total RAM. You need 64-bit to be able to make use of all 6GB. Compare your CPU here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews... message edited by riider

again , thanks bro http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Penti... as u may see geekbench 32 bit has almost no difference , but 64-bit score is almost double ........ thats why i thought to format to 32 bit. my 4gb ram is 667 & other 533 would it make a HUGE differ ? here are the temp ; cpu - 38C avg hdisk 27C GPU 27C ------------ also 2gb space left in my drive c rest are half filled i cannot expand c drive (tried es partition manager) so made a new drive for program files (games only) ----------------- CPU USAGE 100 PERCENT. --------------------------------------------------- thereby i am formatting by pc to 32 bit bcoz max 3gb ram was being used (even if the game was running) message edited by dhanur

NT56erbx February 24, 2014 at 14:03:57

You still will take a performance hit if you downgrade to 32 bit, as although it only says 3 GB is being used, windows does use the rest of the memory to cache programs, essentially pre-loading them for faster loading of applications.

DDR3-1066 vs 1333 is there a huge difference ?

riider February 25, 2014 at 06:59:13

"DDR3-1066 vs 1333" Since you have both speeds paired up together, they will run as DDR3-1066 at 533MHz. That means your system is taking a performance hit due to the slow RAM speed. How big of a hit is hard to say. Did you try manually adjusting the RAM speed? EDIT: I just remembered you have an Intel board so I'm not sure if the BIOS will allow you to configure the RAM settings. message edited by riider

i just removed slower ram no difference.

i just recorded a pattern in nfs rivals FPS drops only when the no. of polygon count increases . eg-entering the city from desert processor usage then shoots to 100% message edited by dhanur

and also i tried bios settings i cannot change the frequency , nor the multiplier so planning to buy a new processor lga 1155 advice ?