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The two things I see are your video card and your RAM.

RAM is cheap, but a video card is probably going to be your biggest upgrade here. Take a look at the GTX 460, 660, and 660Ti. As for RAM, you're running a 32bit OS so there are hard limits on what you can do with that, and your video card is going to take a bite out of it. I'd stick with a 1GB VRAM video card and try to squeeze an extra 1GB of hard RAM into there for the computer to use.

Also as Wint mentioned in another thread, the GTX 650Ti Boost is good value @ $175

Hello, all, I've been trying to figure this problem out for a long while now. I've looked up guides on ways to improve performance on my computer but nothing seems to work. This is the worst part, my score has actually dropped when switching to a 7870 from my 6850. What I notice is that my GPU and CPU load never reach 99/100%, so it is kind of hard to tell if my CPU is really bottlenecking my GPU or not. I am aware from research that there may be other bottlenecks but since I'm not all that experienced at putting together rigs (this is my first one), it's kind of hard for me to identify the problem, and I was hoping that someone could please help me with this situation.

I'm starting to regret the "upgrade" and think that I should have purchased a better CPU and mobo first, but you can find a few results on Google on the question of whether or not the CPU I have could bottleneck the 7870, the majority stated that an OC'd CPU would be fine.

The average score I received with my 6850 was 4800 on 1280x720 Medium. Even that seemed kind of low to me, but I don't know, I might just be wrong. I have tried searching for people in a similar situation like mine, but all I have found is maybe two or three people with only the same GPU, and those people got scores in the 5k's on Maximum 1080p.

Here are my results with my 7870 on the exact same settings as the 6850:

Score:3441
Average Framerate:30.160

My CPU has had a stable OC from 3.2GHz to 3.8GHz.

Here are my system specs:
XFX Double D FX-787A-CDFC Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W Continuous @40°C,80 PLUS BRONZE Certified, Single 12V Rail, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7,i5" Power Supply

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX

I appreciate any suggestions or recommendations (like hardware upgrades), and any help. Thank you for your time.

I have a pretty low budget, btw, it took a while to save up for that 7870 so you can see how I feel kind of bad about how things have turned out...

I only mention this so that nobody goes "Just buy [insert all this expensive stuff here]" lol

[EDIT] I've found stuff about a "power saving mode" for GPUs causing low load and therefore low clocks, but I have no idea how the GPU could have its power saving mode. Is that just the performance plan or something? Could that even be it?

[EDIT 2] I have also found about how the CPU load might not actually show up as full load because it means the game is efficiently using all 4 cores. I have also turned off all power saving features from the BIOS. Still would appreciate any info.. thanks.

Edited, Apr 13th 2013 3:43am by RedMage1993

Edited, Apr 13th 2013 1:57pm by RedMage1993

Okay, well, I managed to get it fixed!

It's kind of hard to tell what exactly was the fix since I ended up formatting my HDD, but the things I did was when installing the AMD drivers, I ONLY installed everything BUT the CCC. I also installed this tool from HIS called iTurbo that allows you to Disable ULPS and 2D Clocks. The 2D clocks seemed to be not necessary so currently I only have Disable ULPS enabled. I have managed to get 5572 on Maximum 1080p with an average 45fps, previously impossible. I get 10500 approximately at 720p. Hope this helps whoever had problems with GPU utilization.

Very nice! My overclocked 660 paired with my rusty Phenom II 955 (stock clock) only scores 5200ish. Talk about severe bottleneck...

Edit: Btw, what did you OC your GPU up to?


Edited, Apr 15th 2013 2:37pm by Threx

Actually, it ended up being something strange with what I was installing or simply it was just Windows 8 x64 professional that could not let me use it fully. I still don't have CCC installed, but yeah, I have been doing just fine on Windows 7 64-bit. I actually don't mind the "downgrade" since it's very similar and stuff.

I can't tell what happened because I did a fresh install of Windows 8 before going to 7, and it still did not work. But I'm gonna assume that there was something I was doing on the OS that was causing it, and not just blame it on the OS lol.

My 955 OC'd to 3.8ghz and psu with 630W is working pretty good with the 7870. I'll probably upgrade to a better AMD chip later or just switch to Intel tho.

Hey everyone. I just did the benchmark.
I don't understand why, but my score isn't as high as i expected it to be. I just bought a new CPU and MOBO and graphics card, and they're all pretty much top notch. The only thing I could think of is that I ran the test without my mobo in overclock mode as well as my graphics card, did the test in standard mode. Haven't gotten around to trying it after overclocking yet. Still installing all the new updates for this new build. Any suggestions of what I could do?

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:5/28/2013 12:15:57 AM
Score:5163
Average Framerate:41.937
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631)
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
8141.504MB
ASUS HD7850 Series(VRAM 1743 MB) 8.17.0010.1119

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I think the game is really GPU dependent, particularly vRam. You can see on this thread people with almost the same setup as me, except a GPU with 4gb of vRam vs my 1100~ get a much better score than I can get.

Score: 3890

1920x1080
Full Screen
Standard Graphics

This is on a mid range gaming laptop with a quad core i7-3610QM (2.3GHz), 650m graphics card, so I'm fairly pleased.

I got 1300 with the integrated graphics chip, for comparison.

Edited, May 28th 2013 9:46pm by Dizmo

Edited, Jun 12th 2013 8:10pm by Dizmo

Yeah I guess I kind of figured that a 2gb vRAM GPU would suffice, plus my 8-core CPU on top of that but I suppose not! Oh well, I suppose 6k-ish will have to do haha

Another thing I noticed was that Nvidia cards seem to be scoring higher. Earlier in the thread someone had a similar set up to mine but was scoring about 400 points higher with a 660TI vs my 7870. The cards are pretty similar performance-wise, but the 660TI seems to handle the bench better.

I actually have a question and hope someone can answer for me.

I have a gaming laptop with a Nvidia 680m in it, but when I run the benchmark and get my score and all that it tells me my GPU is the Intel HD graphics.

Is that the Nvidia Optimus' fault? My scores at running everything maxed out has been right at 5200 at about 40 fps if I remember right. I haven't looked at it in a while. But it's been annoying that everytime I've tried it that it won't bring up my actual GPU in the system summary.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2013 10:59pm by Hatamaz