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Hello all, Thank each and every one of your replies. I haven't upgraded my CPU yet (it is what I found to be the bottle neck), but what I have found to help significantly for myself and anyone else in my position is to instead of having the web browser and video playing on the 2nd monitor. It is much less taxing for my system to play the video in picture-in-picture mode (right-click twice on a youtube video for the option) and then minimizing the browser. You can resize the picture-in-picture video. After doing this, my CPU rarely peaks at 100% usage while playing rocket league and videos playing.

Solid build. Do you plan on overclocking your CPU? If the answer is no, then drop the CPU cooler from your build and use the included cooler with the CPU (it's actually pretty decent). Use the saved money from that to buy a more reliable power supply, or at least a set of higher Mhz RAM sticks.. but probably the power supply

After testing and monitoring, the stuttering is occurring when the CPU hits 100%. The GPU never goes beyond 95% usage and the VRAM is not moving past 2.2GB of usage. I'll try upgrading to the i7-4770 and see if it makes any difference before considering upgrading to a newer platform. Thank you all!

This is what I suspected the issue might be. Is there a way to see my GPU's VRAM usage? Playing Rocket League without Youtube videos is non-negotiable for me. I use headphones as well so using a separate device is out of the question

I could get one for free, an i7-4770, but I wasn't sure if the virtual cores would make much of an impact to be worth the hassle. I don't plan on playing other games or upgrading to a higher resolution. Thoughts?

Hi, I have a very old system. List of all the specs below: CPU: i5-4690k (Not OC) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO GPU: GTX 970 Memory: 16GB DDR3 NVMe SSD + SATA SSD Displays: 144hz 1080p VA panel + 60hz 1080p IPS Panel Win 10 All Graphics drivers up-to-date w/ clean install. I only play 2 games, Rocket League and Classic WoW. WoW is no issue. When I play Rocket League at minimum settings, uncapped frames, v-sync off with Youtube videos @480p on the 2nd monitor; nothing else open. I do get noticeable stutters. I suspected that it's my CPU that is too dated because Rocket League is a very CPU dependent game, but could it possibly be my GPU that's the issue? I'd like to know how I can test if there's a bottleneck in my system while playing Rocket League without having to swap hardware. Thanks!

That looks to be a great option. Price looks great

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G will be more than enough GPU power to handle LoL. If one day you want to play more demanding games, then buy a dedicated graphics card then, not now. 5600G will be fine as a stand-alone CPU as well.

Build looks fine to me. 1080p is still fine for a budget build, that's where you'll find the cheapest monitors. You could go up to 1440p if you want to spend the extra. I would not get a 60hz panel. Anything at or above 120hz. Anything that is not a TN panel. If you're going to get a curved monitor, get a VA panel; they're the most cost effective non-TN. 24" is the minimum I'd recommend to get a curved monitor. Anything smaller, just get a flat screen. That micro board will look a little silly in that mid-tower case, but it's whatever. I personally think you don't need a mid tower and a micro mid or mini tower would be more suitable. That's up to your own taste though.

This is also what I heard about DDR5. More bandwidth but poorer latency which would hurt it a lot in games. I guess I'll just have to wait for the tests

Thank you for that info. I'll be on that lookout for that. Imo intel has become the old AMD. Current gen intel chips consume so much TDP to compete with AMD chips

I don't care if they're the better option. Intel has shown time and time again that they don't care about the consumers that buy their product while AMD has. If that's AMD's marketing scheme then I'm buying into it whether its AMD or Intel

I'm sure this question gets asked a lot. Sorry about that. Right now I have a 4690K which isn't cutting the productivity that I'm trying to do right now. I have wanted to upgrade my CPU for awhile, but I'm someone who upgrades very infrequently so I'm wondering if waiting for AMD's 6000 series is worth it or just get a 5000 series now, and if I do a 6000 series AMD, should I go with DDR4 or DDR5 RAM? From a consumer perspective Intel is off the consideration so don't mention it in this thread.

Forgive me. Those were the temperatures WHILE I was playing the game. The idle temps are much lower than that 40C GPU and 36C CPU

Follow up. Temperatures seem to be normal, but after a few hours of gaming tonight, there wasn't a shutdown. GPU steadily hangs at 77-80C. CPU sits at 55C.