Jrcisme

Think I might get a new motherboard that supports my current cpu as well as higher memory speeds. Hopefully i'll see a noticeable change

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/H170-PRO-GAMING/ This is the motherboard I have, think the max speed is 2133mhz

I'm a broke college student, so replacing everything isn't the best financial decision. Looking for a somewhat inexpensive way to fix this issue

Understandable, but I play games like fortnite and csgo and playing with higher video settings isn't really the best play. But i'll try limiting the fps

So i guess if it doesn't work would the next play be to get a new motherboard that supports higher memory speeds

But I'm not sure that my motherboard supports speeds over 2133.

Got 16gb of DDR4 2133, so I probably end up upgrading the ram but how much of a difference will i notice if I upgrade to 2666

What type of ram would you recommend getting for this build?

In my current build my specs areCPU: Intel Core I7-6700 CPU @ 3.40 ghzGPU: GTX 1080 tiMotherboard: H170 Pro gaming motherboardMemory: 16gb DDR4 RAMMy overall question is, I feel like i'm not getting enough performance based from my specs. In video games I often fluctuate frame rates. Is my GPU possibly being bottle necked by my CPU? I play fortnite and csgo heavily, I understand these are cpu intensive games but I struggle to even break 200 frames at times and these frames fluctuate heavily dropping under 70 at times.I'm stuck in a predicament. I feel as if a gtx 1080ti is a little overkill for gaming at 1920 x 1080 at 144hz. So would you advise selling it for a cheaper GPU, or on the other hand keep the 1080ti and just upgrade the CPU instead.I'm open to any suggestion or input thank you for taking your time to read my issue

Yes most games I play my CPU hits close to 100% a majority of the time

Any suggestions on what RAM I should purchase? Thanks for the help

Thank you for the response means a lot, sorry for replying late. My BIOS is completely up to date I updated it about 2 weeks ago. Currently my monitor is able to get a signal from my computer but only when a single ram stick is in slot B2, for some reason it doesn't work in the others slots. I've tried the 2nd 8gb piece of ram in the same slot but I end up running into the same issue. So i assume this specific piece of RAM is broken. Should I just get new RAM or should I follow the steps and reset the CMOS

I think I might just do that, this might be a far out question but how does ram correlate with GPU usage?

Tried upping the ram in the bios to everything above 2133, but when I did I couldn't even boot windows i would just get a error message