Report of significant FPS decline across gaming titles
Report of significant FPS decline across gaming titles
Spotted an old rig and thought about upgrading with a new GPU to enjoy some classic games again.
I recently purchased an AMD RX 6650-XT and some budget RAM a few months back, and everything worked fine at first. However, recently performance has dropped sharply—games like League and WoW are now stuck at around 25 FPS, and Diablo 4 isn’t even running.
I ran a user benchmark and the results aren’t promising:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/68468609
It would really help to get some advice.
Why did you purchase two sticks of varying sizes? It seems like it’s related to issues.
Take out the 4GB stick and see if performance gets better.
Additionally, your background CPU usage is quite high. Could you tell me which applications are running continuously?
Thanks, it seems I had many programs running and they were taking up a lot of CPU usage. I ran UBM after rebooting: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/68479808. The 2x8GB RAM is not working well, and I don’t have the ability to set XMP in my BIOS. The GPU performance is also poor, so maybe an overclock would help? I tried adding another 2x8GB RAM, bringing the total to 32GB, but the PC still wouldn’t boot past the BIOS.
The performance seems typical for such an outdated system.
Which revision of MoBo are you using?
There are six revisions available for the Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3, including the latest version rev 6.0. The RAM speeds range from 1066 Mhz to 1333 Mhz, with OC/XMP support up to 1600 Mhz.
Keep in mind that if your RAM doesn’t support 1600 Mhz, you won’t have the XMP option available.
This GPU isn’t ideal for such an older configuration.
The graphics card requires a PCI-E 4.0 x8 interface, but your MoBo only has a PCI-E x16 slot (rev 6.0), which supports only 2.0 lanes. As a result, it operates at PCI-E 2.0 x8.
It functions, though performance will be reduced—around a 4% drop—because of the outdated PCI-E standard.
Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidi...ng/27.html
The main limitation comes from the 12-year-old FX-6300 CPU. Back then it was a mid-range chip; now it’s significantly inferior to today’s models.
It’s likely due to bloatware or malware, or simply software-related issues.
The simplest solution is to format the OS drive and perform a fresh Windows installation.
From a hardware standpoint, everything is functioning correctly, so there’s nothing further you can do to enhance performance.
This run indicates you've been active for nearly a day.
Consider trying ubm as described earlier.
Yeah, that CPU looked pretty good back then, but it's not what it used to be now. After reviewing your comments, I've purchased an i5-12600K with a Gigabyte H610M H V3 motherboard. The CPU is still a bottleneck compared to expectations and is definitely contributing to some problems.
Did you also purchase new RAM? The DDR3 you currently have may not work with the new MoBo. Depending on the version of MoBo you own, you'll need either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM.
Additionally, the H610 chipset is quite basic and budget-friendly. It's affordable but not recommended for purchase. B660 or H670 chipsets would be more suitable, while the Z690 chipset is ideal for K-series CPUs.
Great find! I assumed I had DDR4, so now I'm considering RAM purchases. The K series doesn't include CPU coolers, so those are also worth checking. I went with the H610 mainly because of the price, planning to possibly donate it later. I noticed a Gigabyte B760M for about £20 less. Thinking about whether that extra cost is justified.