Friend has oddly higher FPS than me - Hardware & Software

Recently a friend of mine on Steam got a new computer, and I've noticed that in every game he has way higher FPS than me. I usually wouldn't care, but it's confusing because his Graphics card is only one model ahead of mine, but my processor is incredibly better than his. [b]My specs[/b] GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 220 1GB CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.40GHz Ram: 4GB [b]His specs[/b] GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 240 1GB CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800, 2.40GHz Ram: 3GB A while back I was having a weird issue with my processor and found a setting in the BIOs like this: Active Cores: [4] Value: [12% (per core)] [i]This was at -4% when I first had the problem, I bumped it up to the next highest number which was 12 so not to damage anything[/i] Obviously 12% is pretty low, but I'd rather check with you guys whether it's safe to increase, or if the 240 is really that much better. Better safe than sorry.

Don't remember what that's called, but you can disable it. It's ACC or something. And a 240 is much better than a 220, I'm guessing the games you've been playing are more GPU intense than CPU and/or he's running at a lower resolution.

He's at around 1366x768 and I'm at 1280x1024. Not too big a difference there, but I won't rule it out. As for ACC, I googled it; it's Advanced Clock Calibration. It has no performance effect, it's only to increase the limits of overclocking. I'm talking about Gmod, Dead Rising 2, TF2, etc. He has all the settings on highest, and I have most of the settings on highest. In Dead Rising two I get shit FPS with lowest settings and a low resolution and, I'm not sure of his settings, but I'm pretty sure he still gets amazing fps. I'd ask him right now but he's not answering.

You're running at a higher resolution with a worse GPU; what's your descrepincy?

That his FPS is so much higher. In Gmod I'll have maybe 30-50 and he'll have 70-100. In Dead Rising 2, well, there's a huge difference. Again I'd ask him what his FPS is in DR2 but he's not answering.

1280x1024 has about 20% more pixels than 1366x768 also the GT220 is considerably slower than a GT240; the GT220 is even slower than a 4670 so in other words, yeah, those are the framerates that you should be getting.

Well, alright. I just wanted to make it wasn't something I could fix. Guess I'll lower my resolution anyway. Thanks for the help guys.

[QUOTE=riku2211;27553812]Well, alright. I just wanted to make it wasn't something I could fix. Guess I'll lower my resolution anyway. Thanks for the help guys.[/QUOTE] Run at you're monitor's native resolution, Basically every other resolution looks shit. But yeah, You're running a shit load more pixels with a worse gpu.

20-30 is fine, I'd much rather lower settings than deal with LCD scaling... Buy a new GPU. If you're in the States, you can get a 4830 for $60, or save up $180 and get a 6850