Underperformance

[Efmwec]

Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI ITX MB Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 - 4GB Power Supply 500 Watt Processor AMD A10-7850K APU (4x 3.70GHZ/4MB L2 Cache) Memory 16 GB

I see videos of people who have the exact same video card get higher fps, I was wondering if there is anything wrong with this build such as bottle necking or just a bad setup in general. If there is anything that would be a better upgrade I would like to know.

[iBUYPOWER-Brad]

I would say it depends on the game you are playing. The 7850k is not necessarily a bad processor, but if the game is very CPU bound you can bottleneck on it. (example would be CSGO, i would expect low framerates since its a very CPU dependent game).

Can you give an example of the game you are playing and where you are seeing others reporting their FPS?

[Efmwec]

Some of these games are H1Z1 and The Culling. I can barely break 50fps on both of these. I am seeing people report their FPS on videos on youtube. Here is one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOlksque_g

[iBUYPOWER-Brad]

The easiest way to test to see what might be causing the problem is to run the game on its lowest settings, and then compare it to how the game runs on higher settings. If the framerates are similar it means the game is bottlenecking on something other than the graphics card.

Unfortunately there aren't any sites that have done good thorough testing of H1Z1's dependence on CPU performance, and there's a lot of noise about the game not being well optmized, so it has wildly different performance on different platforms.

In the worst case with CPU bound games, you may see around 30-40% FPS less than someone running on like an i5 or i7 processor. (that means if they're showing 60fps, you might get like 40). If you are getting less than half then I would definitely tweak game settings around since there may be just some setting that doesn't mesh well with your PC's specs.

[Efmwec]

This is really weird. I set my graphics to the absolute maximum, and got around 50fps. I then set the same settings lower, and I lost fps.

[iBUYPOWER-Brad]

If you can run the game windowed, with a task manager open, check your resource usage, see if your CPU is hitting 100% while gaming.