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Sgany
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom790 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-31 14:05:15
January 23 2011 00:15 GMT
#1
*NEW ISSUE*
One ram stick is not working it seems.

I recently purchased a new pc my spec are as following



Samsung (SH-D162D) 16x DVD-ROM Black (SATA)
1 TB (1000 GB) SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
1 TB (1000 GB) SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
Creative X-FI Xtreme Gamer 7.1 V2 (PCI)
Corsair Gaming Series 600W PSU - Low Noise
1 Port Firewire IEEE 1394 (Built In)
Killer Xeno Pro Gaming Network Card (PCI-E)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 BIT (Genuine DVD & COA Included)
Tornado Gaming Case - Black
Asus Rampage III Gene (Intel X58)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - Silent
Intel Core i7 950 (4 x 3.06GHz) 8 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - 1536 MB - (EVGA)

All drivers are up to date I believe

I currently run sc2 on extreme at around 30-60 fps which averages around 40, is this under performing for my specs. Nothing is currently overclocked.

I would like to aplogise for the bad formating in this post as i am currently posting from an iphone as my internet is currently off.

I can provide more details if needed.

Thank you for any help or suggestions
NaDa <3, MMA <3, Bisu <3,
Jago
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland390 Posts
January 23 2011 00:24 GMT
#2
Yes, this is severe underperformance, I am getting more than 40 average on extreme with an i5 750 / 4gb ram / ati5850. Also note that Extreme only works in singleplayer. In multiplayer, Extreme is the exact same thing as Ultra.
Seth_
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Belgium184 Posts
January 23 2011 00:27 GMT
#3
It is a bit lower than I would expect.

What's the resolution you're running at?
Sgany
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom790 Posts
January 23 2011 00:28 GMT
#4
On January 23 2011 09:27 Seth_ wrote:
It is a bit lower than I would expect.

What's the resolution you're running at?

1900x1080 currently
NaDa <3, MMA <3, Bisu <3,
Adeeler
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom764 Posts
January 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5
That sounds like its not doing as great as those cost makes it sound. How long ago did you buy this cos you seemed to have paid a lot :S

Guessing you got monitor,keyboard,mouse etc also cos it seems like you paid nearly double what you should have otherwise.
Sgany
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom790 Posts
January 23 2011 00:58 GMT
#6
Around Christmas time it also have a bigfoot netwok card and a sound blaster sound card in it aswell, along with two 1tb hdds 7200rpm
NaDa <3, MMA <3, Bisu <3,
SaYyId
Profile Joined August 2010
Portugal277 Posts
January 23 2011 01:11 GMT
#7
you got that for 1500 quid? your a dealbreaker dude
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Lumire
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States607 Posts
January 23 2011 01:25 GMT
#8
Theres been a lot of these threads popping up lately, im starting to think sc2 has an issue with some specific cards or something along those lines.
As for you're question, check you're temps, drivers etc, im getting around you're fps with a 5770 and a phenom II 955 with 4GB of RAM running on ultra if its anything to compare it to.
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Dont Panic
Profile Joined October 2010
United States194 Posts
January 23 2011 04:50 GMT
#9
Ummm not to brag but ig et that shit and my budget comp cost me 520 USD like 5 months ago.
I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
Dont Panic
Profile Joined October 2010
United States194 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-23 04:59:36
January 23 2011 04:58 GMT
#10
EDIT: soz for double post.. apparently if you hit back in your browser even after a while it will repost
I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
Liquoid
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom275 Posts
January 23 2011 05:14 GMT
#11
OC the CPU to about 4.2, OC the GPU and you might get away with it without an RMA? Not that the setup you have would differ much in quality as when you would get a, say, i5-760 with a GTX 460?
PrimeTimey
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada369 Posts
January 23 2011 06:01 GMT
#12
650 Watt power supply seems questionable for such a build.
jaj22
Profile Joined September 2009
United Kingdom1376 Posts
January 23 2011 06:44 GMT
#13
Underperforming by a long way, unless you spend most of your time playing mass-macro 4v4s. Check the temperatures of both the GPU and CPU while running SC2 (CPUID HWMonitor will do), as thermal throttling can cause this sort of trouble.

wargasm
Profile Joined December 2010
94 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-23 06:48:14
January 23 2011 06:47 GMT
#14
Think you may have force anti aliasing or vertical sync on. Check the nvidia control panel and turn it off.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
January 23 2011 07:01 GMT
#15
Do you get lowish frame rates in other games?
How about in single player?
http://www.geforce.com/#/Optimize/OPS/Starcraft-2-GeForce-GTX-580-OPS
vyyye
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden3917 Posts
January 23 2011 07:37 GMT
#16
On January 23 2011 09:28 Sgany wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2011 09:27 Seth_ wrote:
It is a bit lower than I would expect.

What's the resolution you're running at?

1900x1080 currently

That's horrible, I bought my computer last year for about £650 and I can max SC2 on that resolution with similar FPS results. Can't say more than that as I'm no tech expert, but well, confirmed something ain't right :|
infinitely
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada89 Posts
January 23 2011 08:15 GMT
#17
On January 23 2011 13:50 Dont Panic wrote:
Ummm not to brag but ig et that shit and my budget comp cost me 520 USD like 5 months ago.

Sigh. His graphics card alone costs as much as your entire computer.

Maybe a misplaced heatsink is at fault? Starcraft 2 is very cpu intensive, perhaps it is overheating and causing the cpu to cut back. Try running a stress test like prime95 and find out what your cpu temperatures are. I have the exact same computer honestly, and it runs extreme at about 100 fps. (Although my processor is overlocked). So yeah, something is definitely not going right.
Don't forget your detection!
Sgany
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom790 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-28 01:05:02
January 28 2011 01:03 GMT
#18
I have just got my internet back so I am going to run these tests which you have reccomended and I have also updated the the original post to more exact detail, also if possible to could someone please point me to a good video or writen guide on how to overclock my processor.
NaDa <3, MMA <3, Bisu <3,
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
January 28 2011 01:16 GMT
#19
OC to 4.5 on air,

( use alcohol/wipe off )
spread a dot of x23-7783 paste ( works better than silver )

go into bios to disable cpu throttling ( there's 2 options there ) one drops the multiplier, the other one halts execution...
Year 2500 Greater Israel ( Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen )
Combine
Profile Joined July 2010
United States812 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-28 01:25:39
January 28 2011 01:23 GMT
#20
Try turning it down to ultra, I don't believe extreme is worth it for the performance loss.

For some comparison-
http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performance/page7.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performance/page13.html

So it's really not too far off, Starcraft 2 isn't really true multicore, so the higher the clock of the processor the better, oc if you can.

Also, the GTX 580 is a pretty new card, so it might take a bit before drivers catch up with it and give it better performance in certain games that it currently has issues with.
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