New Build (Built) - Multiple Questions

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Hello everyone! I've come over here because from what I'm reading the "flaming" is kept to a minimum and most members actually have a common interest to better their rigs and push them to the limits.. compared to other forums where young "google informed" keyboard warriors battle all day.  

Here is my current build specs:

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX REV. 2.0

AMD FX-8350 5.016Mhz @ 1.525v

32GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance 9 Latency

(2) Kingston Hyper 3K 120GB RAID 0

(4) Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB RAID 3

(2) EVGA GTX 770 4GB FTW ACX

Corsair AX1200i PSU

Corsair AIR540

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

 

My Questions

 

I'm seeing in BF3 when my CPU is clocked at 4.0GHz an average of 89-95FPS in game (with in game counter), but when I OC the CPU to 5.0GHz (stable 24/7) I'm averaging around 135-150FPS. <- Is this an example of what a bottleneck would be in a system? Or is that what is to be expected with that high of a OC on the CPU? 

 

Also - I've seen a couple 770 SLI benchmark videos and most of them own BF3 but I'm having some issues in multiple games getting better scores than a single GTX 780, or even coming close to a Titan and most of the reviews for this particular card in SLI pretty much wipes the floor in benchmarks. 

 

I'm seeing a benchmark of 689MB/s random read speed on my SSD RAID 0 setup - is this normal for these SSD's? 


What performance increase would I see if I raised the GPU's to (2) Titans, (2) 7990/s or (2) GTX 690's?

 

What performance increase would I see if I raised the CPU to a i7 4770K, or similar Intel CPU?



I guess when I built this system I was expecting to load BF3 and get like 150FPS minimum on the game thinking that the specs of the rig were "decent" and considering the game is from 2011 I figured I'd get incredible performance. I'm getting "OK" performance unless the performance I'm getting right now is actually amazing at which point - please, someone let me know because I'm pulling my hair out.

I would like to start making gaming videos, because I play with a group on multiple games and we all like to review gaming footage after a match. This wouldn't be to make money - just to make some quick 10-15 minute videos.

I'm thinking of using Windows Movie Maker

 

 1.) It's Free

2.) It does a good job at using multiple cores to encode the videos. 

 

If you have a different video encoding program that works better than another please feel free to post it up and I'll definitley take a look into it! 

 

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Please Note: These pictures are of when I had the Gigabyte 990FXA UD7 which failed in the first week. Now it has the ASUS Sabertooth motherboard. 

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From my experience you won't see much of a difference with an i7 in gaming but in editing it is a much better CPU

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I'm seeing that in many benchmarks - but I'm also seeing other rigs that are far more stable than my machine and don't have the weird "hiccups" that my computer has. It sometimes hangs when loading something (off my SSD) whether it be a program or a game which I find really weird. 

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BUMP

 

Anyone else?

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Dont think i have ever seen 135 to 150 fps for a min . But it would be nice . :) By any stretch of the imagination you have excellent results for your rig .

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tried updating the firmware?

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I think it's the OC. I'm having other issues with certain icons not loading, like my WiFi icon on the task bar won't load unless I'm under 4.5Ghz. I know this doesn't make any sense at all but I've tried all MHz up to (10MHz increments) 5.0Ghz from 4.5GHz and it starts being finnicky after 4.5GHz. 

DUMB.  

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Thanks for the reply!! This makes me feel WAY more at ease. I was testing my system and just really didn't "feel" like the PC had met my expectations. 

I did just encode a 65GB 1080p multi-channel audio video in about 35 minutes.