Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening & Good Night All,
I build a (What I thought was) a pretty decent gaming rig last year. My intent was to be able to play most major games at highest settings possible with a 1080 resolution at 60 FPS. And while using these settings is possible I notice, on most games (not all and no this does not include Planet Coaster) Im getting frequent drops below 60. The drops aren't generally significant but they do occur, many of which involve frame pacing which just makes the games feel awkward to play. This seems to happen no matter what high setting im on. Even when using the "Geforce Experience Optimized" settings or the developers "recommended" settings.
Im well aware I'll need to make a change and pay up. i have no problem with that. I'd just like to know what my bottleneck is. I was this close to just throwing another 300 for an I7 or a few more bucks on CPU cooling. But from all my research it doesn't sound like that will help.
Here are my specs I was hoping some of you fellow PC hardware geeks could help me identify whats holding me back.
Processor: CORE I5 6600K ( 91 V ) (Stock 3.5 GHZ clock)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Mortar LGA 1151 Intel B150
Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6276-KR ( 8 GB )
RAM: G.SKILL Aegis 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) ( 2 8GB Sticks -- 16 GB )
DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 400 CPU Cooler 4 Heatpipes 120mm
EVGA 600 B1 100-B1-0600-KR 80+ BRONZE 600W
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Some random other tidbits:
computer at idle seems to run about 25-30 degrees c
computer at max running seems to push about 45-55 degrees c
Games seem to bounce between 60 FPS - and 50 FPS with some hard dips into the 40s
Frame pacing feels off, I have no timing numbers however.
Cores being used seem to hit 90% use during most gaming sessions...
Games that give me issues:
TitanFall 2
Battlefield 1
Destiny 2
Doom (In rare instances)
Forza Motorsport 7
Portal 2 ( !?!?!? AM i right ??? )
Quake Champions
Wolfenstein New Order
Witcher 3
Any insight or ideas would really be appreciated.
I build a (What I thought was) a pretty decent gaming rig last year. My intent was to be able to play most major games at highest settings possible with a 1080 resolution at 60 FPS. And while using these settings is possible I notice, on most games (not all and no this does not include Planet Coaster) Im getting frequent drops below 60. The drops aren't generally significant but they do occur, many of which involve frame pacing which just makes the games feel awkward to play. This seems to happen no matter what high setting im on. Even when using the "Geforce Experience Optimized" settings or the developers "recommended" settings.
Im well aware I'll need to make a change and pay up. i have no problem with that. I'd just like to know what my bottleneck is. I was this close to just throwing another 300 for an I7 or a few more bucks on CPU cooling. But from all my research it doesn't sound like that will help.
Here are my specs I was hoping some of you fellow PC hardware geeks could help me identify whats holding me back.
Processor: CORE I5 6600K ( 91 V ) (Stock 3.5 GHZ clock)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Mortar LGA 1151 Intel B150
Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6276-KR ( 8 GB )
RAM: G.SKILL Aegis 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) ( 2 8GB Sticks -- 16 GB )
DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 400 CPU Cooler 4 Heatpipes 120mm
EVGA 600 B1 100-B1-0600-KR 80+ BRONZE 600W
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Some random other tidbits:
computer at idle seems to run about 25-30 degrees c
computer at max running seems to push about 45-55 degrees c
Games seem to bounce between 60 FPS - and 50 FPS with some hard dips into the 40s
Frame pacing feels off, I have no timing numbers however.
Cores being used seem to hit 90% use during most gaming sessions...
Games that give me issues:
TitanFall 2
Battlefield 1
Destiny 2
Doom (In rare instances)
Forza Motorsport 7
Portal 2 ( !?!?!? AM i right ??? )
Quake Champions
Wolfenstein New Order
Witcher 3
Any insight or ideas would really be appreciated.
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