Whats wrong with my fps??? Someone please help!!!

[Radunas]

Micro ATX format.. you may not be able to stick a huge/long (that's what she said, hurr hurr) video card in there. Make sure and check the dimensons from the back to the front of the case before you purchase anything. You can check the newegg site for specs and reviews from consumers that have purchased just the motherboard. Fortunately, they are mostly positive reviews aside from the DoA's (dead on arrival). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130662

I would say there is a good possibility you can swap your power supply out for a more high performance/higher wattage to support your new video card, which will hopefully fit in your case.

edit: also that was the model # of your Mobo, which does help but I was speaking of the 'model' of your PC, like is it a Dell, lenovo, asus, acer anything like that? Or was it custom built?

[Gonzothegreat198]

I would definitely go no lower than a 650ti Boost and if its in your budget just go straight to the 660. I'm planning on getting the 670 2GB card when I upgrade my entire PC, but that'll be in january when I get 3 pays, plus holiday and more than likely my tax return as well.


As for the power supply I would use this PSU Calc to give you a general idea of how big of a PSU you will need

[TruBeast]

edit: also that was the model # of your Mobo, which does help but I was speaking of the 'model' of your PC, like is it a Dell, lenovo, asus, acer anything like that? Or was it custom built?

The PC is a Pryon - they only make PC's for Harvey Norman and you can ask them to make you custom builds ... model number is PRY-A10-6801W (http://www.harveynorman.com.au/pryon...w-desktop.html)

I would say there is a good possibility you can swap your power supply out for a more high performance/higher wattage to support your new video card, which will hopefully fit in your case.

At the moment it is running a power supply with 400w DC Output model#: FSP400-60EPN(80) (FSP Group Inc) do you think I will need bigger?

Micro ATX format.. you may not be able to stick a huge/long (that's what she said, hurr hurr) video card in there. Make sure and check the dimensons from the back to the front of the case before you purchase anything.

Thanks for the advice! The case itself isnt a mico case... I'm not sure how big these cards get, but it looks like there is plenty of room behind my current GC... only thing it looks like it might have to compete with is wires...

So - assuming you have enough info - what would you recommend?? :-)

[TruBeast]

I would definitely go no lower than a 650ti Boost and if its in your budget just go straight to the 660.

Thanks Gonzothegreat... so just to clarify (now that I know 1 letter can make all the difference)- your talking about a GSX660 right?

I'm planning on getting the 670 2GB card when I upgrade my entire PC, but that'll be in january when I get 3 pays, plus holiday and more than likely my tax return as well.

See this is the part that got me - My current GC is 4Gb... so I immediately assumed it would be better than the 2Gb based on that... Still not quite sure how this works...

[Gonzothegreat198]

At the moment it is running a power supply with 400w DC Output model#: FSP400-60EPN(80) (FSP Group Inc) do you think I will need bigger?

You are most definitly going to need bigger. IIRC you will need atleast a 600w for single GPU and a 800W for SLI if you ever plan on it.

[reaper1576]

Upgrade your graphics card or play at lower resolution or setting nut looks of your system your using a mini ITX setup and wouldn't really use one for gaming as I find them more suited for home theatre systems

Sidenote: Recently, I have needed to run the game as an administrator because of some launcher error I have been receiving (running in admin mode is the only way I have managed to bypass the error) - not sure if this would effect the fps or not but thought i'd mention it just in case...

no error ever with Win8 Pro 64bit or Win8.1 Pro 64bit launcher runs as default admin mode

After seeing the link to your system you have been sold a mini ITX system.

[Gonzothegreat198]

Thanks Gonzothegreat... so just to clarify (now that I know 1 letter can make all the difference)- your talking about a GSX660 right?


See this is the part that got me - My current GC is 4Gb... so I immediately assumed it would be better than the 2Gb based on that... Still not quite sure how this works...

You can't just go solely by the memory. The memory tbqh is pretty worthless as a stat to consider when comparing two different models. Now if you are comparing a 2GB 670 and a 4GB 670, then yes it does make a difference, but when its two different models, you need to compare the Shaders, GFLOPs, Pixel Rate etc.

And it is the GTX, i don't even think the use GT past the 630, but i may be wrong. You always want to look for the GTX. (for the most part)

[Gonzothegreat198]

Upgrade your graphics card or play at lower resolution or setting nut looks of your system your using a mini ITX setup and wouldn't really use one for gaming as I find them more suited for home theatre systems



no error ever with Win8 Pro 64bit or Win8.1 Pro 64bit launcher runs as default admin mode

After seeing the link to your system you have been sold a mini ITX system.

How is 8.1 looking?

[Radunas]

I'd shoot upgrading your PSU to at least 6 if not 800w for future proofing, always better to have more than less when you really need it. I have an 800w in mine, because I plan to SLI in the future. However, your mobo doesn't really have the slots needed to run 2 cards so the 800w purchase would be for this, and your next tower if and when you build another one.

Gonzo is talking about the GTX 660 and it is a great card, you will have little to zero issues running any recent game on that.

edit: i really hope you didn't pay $1600 for that man

[reaper1576]

How is 8.1 looking?

Extremely fast better than Win8 only issue is Corsair needs to update there CLink software to support the USB Stack changes apart from that all gaming is rock solid not found a single issue yet