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deceit wrote: »

Have you tried resolution scale at 100%?

Yup, like I've said, I've tried at every setting possible, I've tried turning off cores, overclocking, disabling sli - everything. Nothing will change the fps (overclocking does, but makes it less crap, still no good).

Ran the 6300 at just 2 cores at 4.2Ghz, fps was 10-20fps at lowest settings. Can't believe that would be accurate.

Wierdly, upped the voltage to 1.37 and its running better on the six cores, though the voltage is way higher than I'd like.

Anyone any further ideas? I'm starting to think there's something fundamentally wrong with the board.

Actually, I ran 3DMark a few months ago, and the result was absolutely atrocious CPU wise, no problems stressing it at 4.2Ghz though. Didn't cop it at the time though, or care really, that it scored so badly, didn't think too much of it. BF4 is the first intensive thing I've run on the 6300, last thing before that was Black Ops 2 which runs on almost anything fine. So I didn't notice the underpowered aspect, though my BF4 performance directly matches my terrible 3dmark score at the time in terms of being so underwhelming.

But 10-18fps on 4.2ghz dual core? That would make it remarkably worse than an old athlon X2. And 30fps average in MP regardless of settings, which is less than 50% of what others are getting at stock speeds even. I've spent all day trawling through drivers, settings, changing hardware even, nothing makes a blind bit of difference apart from :

1) running on 4 cores instead of 6
2) raising vcore very high

those don't give huge improvements, maybe 20%, but still years behind what an fx6300 should be achieving. Running at completely stock settings is abysmal, performance you'd expect from an old Core 2 Duo.

Tired of it now anyway so I'm going to just go back to the i5 2500 and forget about this nightmare. maybe send the board back to amazon, wonder what they're like for a return like that.