bad performance on every game i own.

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copy pasta from another site. i am posting this here because im not sure what hardware is causing the problem.

ok, i bought a 7870 finally 2 days ago but this thing is giving me trouble on every game i run. they stutter or give me frame rate drops

on batman arkham city it would stutter or slow down on certain scenes, on bf3 the game would run at 60 fps but then drop to 30 or 20 fps out of nowhere at times. on borderlands 2 it was stuck at 20 fps and moving really slow during outdoors scenes (on my 460 gtx it ran perfectly even though it was on near high)

is it just AMD that makes bad cards? or is my card bottle necking because of my CPU?

this is my current board plus a i3 2100

and this is my power supply http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=4199

i was thinking about taking it back and shelling out about $20 more and getting myself a 660ti 3gb or just buying a new PSU and holding out on the other parts. what do you think i should do?

or buying a i5 which would be about 170 a better idea? i can always go back and get a good video card in a few weeks plus i got plenty of older games to tide me over
 
Did you switch from another video card to the 7870? If so it could be old drivers messing you up.
Or is this a new build? What resolution are you running at?
 
K1tty said:
Did you switch from another video card to the 7870? If so it could be old drivers messing you up.
Or is this a new build? What resolution are you running at?
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i formatted twice and it did the same thing. and its running at 1080p
 
mongols are coming said:
i was thinking about taking it back and shelling out about $20 more and getting myself a 660ti 3gb or just buying a new PSU and holding out on the other parts. what do you think i should do?

or buying a i5 which would be about 170 a better idea? i can always go back and get a good video card in a few weeks plus i got plenty of older games to tide me over
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It's possible you just got a lemon of a 7870, but that would be just as likely with a 660ti. Either card should be able to run BF3, albeit not 100% maxed out.

I don't have any suggestions, and it's possible the card is fine and there's a problem elsewhere, but I just wanted to clarify that a 7870 should be capable.
 
Xonim said:
It's possible you just got a lemon of a 7870, but that would be just as likely with a 660ti. Either card should be able to run BF3, albeit not 100% maxed out.

I don't have any suggestions, and it's possible the card is fine and there's a problem elsewhere, but I just wanted to clarify that a 7870 should be capable.
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the game runs for me but it always drops to 30-20 fps in some parts. i kept it on high-ultra with AA and motion blur off. ithink i just got a bad OS or something
 
Test that card in another PC. If you get the same poor performance, it's more than likely the card. if you don't, it's something wrong with the way you're setting up the OS or hardware as that Core i3 is still plenty fast for a HD 7870.
 
i set the bios to default and tuned all the settings to work how i wanted without shutting anything that could harm the pc. reinstalled windows from scratch, tweaked my ssd, rebooted, slowly put every driver and rebooted after each one and installed an official amd driver with the CAP and every gaming related patch and now bf3 is running at 60-90 fps and dosent drop below 60. i still need to test it a bit more to make sure it will keep working like this but so far so good.

i also tried the beta driver and bf3 froze during it. after putting the official it was smooth sailing
 
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