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"Everything low, 100% render, 1080p, i7-8700k, GTX 1080, 3200Mhz and I still get 250-300 fps". - NukeMasterOW A post i found on the overwatch reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/8wxe1z/how_to_get_240_fps_on_latest_patch/

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Your CPU is definitely a point of bottlenecking, but it will depend primarily on the game. Watch Dogs 2, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided & Total War: Warhammer are examples that come to mind of bottlenecking I experienced. I upgraded from a 1070 to a 1080 with a near identical build to your own and barely noticed an FPS increase in those titles. It wasn't until I upgrading my CPU and RAM that I noticed any change. Oh and the speed of your ram may also cause some bottlenecking. I noticed nearly a 5-10 fps increase and a huge boost in frame stability in Watch Dogs 2 when upgrading ram from a previous build from 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory to 16GB of 2400 MHz DDR3 memory alone. Again, these sorts of improvements with vary per game. Upgrading the CPU, RAM and Motherboard will give you much better performance then if you were to upgrade you 1080. If you've got the money to spend I'd would say definitely go a head with it. I did about the same thing as you a year or two ago when I upgraded to a 7700K and haven't regretted it since. Since you're streaming I would recommend getting something with 6-cores, so that not only do you get a great streaming experience, but a gaming experience as well.

Yes, you're PC is bottlenecking. In regards with your particular system, your 6 year old CPU will hold you back in game that are more dependant on the CPU that would benefit from having access to more threads. Your RAM will hold you back in games that will benefit from more RAM. For example, there's a significant difference in performance in PUBG when you compare the performance between 8GB and 16GB's of RAM. The resolution that you choose to play at (if you play at 2560X1080) will severely reduce your performance. The 1060 s a great 1080p card. No doubt. But it'll struggle to push out those extra pixels. At least it's not a 4k monitor I suppose. So depending on the game it's setting the 1060 you have will certainly be a bottleneck. But the truth of the matter is, that unless you have the best of the best, there will always be something in your system that with bottleneck your PC. You should instead be asking questions like: Can my gaming PC get me the performance and experience that I want from it? Will give me 60 FPS in games like CS:GO and overwatch? How quickly would this system export 3D animations or 4K video projects? I want to stream on Twitch, is this a good PC for that?

What kind of other specs does your PC have? CPU? RAM?

That's a real shame. Getting a 4.2-4.6GHz overclock on that CPU is relatively easy. Are you sure it's a hardware issue though? First thing I like to do is see if the issue is a software related. Remove your old graphic card drivers and do a new install. Oh and don't just hit the uninstall button, use Display Driver Uninstaller instead. Next if you're still encountering those issues, preform a brand new install on Windows when I'm running into those issues. After doing these steps, I would say this helps 90% of people that are having performance issues. I would say to give it a go.

@SwagLord314"Older" games are sometimes used because then you have a good comparison for the hundreds of other benchmarks done with older hardware. I think a combination of new and old is the right approach. I hope you see my point. If benchmarks are only done with the latest games, then we'd loose our ability to compare to older benchmarks with older hardware, which I think is an important aspect to doing the benchmarks in general.

OP must have mistook this forum for a YouTube comments section.

The first thing you'll want to do is to stop gaming on a Mac. Buy a PC, soooo much better for gaming. #PCMasterRace

I have a 7700k, Oc'd to 4.8GHz, 16GB's of 3000Mhz Ram, a GTX 1080ti, running in 1080p and I still get dips under 60FPS in Ultra mode when driving in certain areas of the city during sunset. Also tried this using a i5 4960k, 16GB's of DDR3 1600Mhz Ram and with a GTX 1080, a GTX 1070 and GTX 970. Regardless of being in med/high/ultra in 1080p, I couldn't get a constant 60fps. When driving in certain area's of the city at certain times of day it's unavoidable. That said, with my 4960k build, when I increased the ram speed from 1600Mhz to 2400Mhz, I saw a big increase is frame rate stability (a lot less stuttering) and a increase in FPS in areas where it struggles more before. Still less then 60FPS in those ares's but it was an improvement. The game looks really nice, but is poorly optimized for a constant 60fps experience. Things I haven't tried yet is using 32GB's of ram, or running the game off an NVMe drive.

Depends completely in the game. Some game are more ram dependant like Watch Dogs 2, but I would say in most cases you won't notice the difference.

Good news is that if the issue is the cards, GTX 1060 cards come with a 3 year warranty. With that out of the way, let's see if we can see if it's a software issue. First we want to completely get rid of any traces of Nvidia Drivers from your PC. To do this, don't uninstall it through the typical way you might normally do with other software. Instead use the Display Driver Uninstaller from Guru3d (http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html). Then after a restart install the latest Nvidia drivers. If you're still experiencing the issues, the next thing you might want to do a fresh install of Windows. If it's still not working, ask a friend if you could put your 1060 card in their PC to see if the performance still sucks. If it does, you've got a lemon.

Ram, ram ram ram! Ram is going to be critical to any video editing build. It's a shame that component is so inflated right now. 16GB is going to be a absolute minimum for editing.

One thing you can try doing is going to https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/55005/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST- to download Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and put it on a USB. If your M.2 NVME drive isn't listed at that point you get stuck, choose Load Driver. Put in the USB Flash drive where you copied those extracted Intel Rapid Storage Technology files. Your drive should now be detected. If this isn't a new drive, Delete all partitions on there. Here's a few other pointers: Don't have any other mechanical drives connected to the computer during the install process You may also want to ensure you bios has the following settings: System Configuration --> SATA Operation = AHCI Secure Boot --> Secure Boot = Disabled. Boot Sequence --> Boot List Option = Legacy If it still doesn't work the issue is be with your USB with Windows 10 on it. Many guides I find on installing a copy of Windows 10 on a NVMe drive say to get a copy of Windows 10 to USB using the Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10). That would definitely be something to try if all else fails.