Optimizing My Build

[mercurialzu]

Hello, I have a rig with an i5-4570 paired with a GTX1060 6GB exoc white and 8Gb ram.

 

I have seen videos which say this build should be able to pull of 60fps at 1080p. Which is what I am aiming for as I am fairly budget and have slowly been upgrading bit by bit. But I often struggle to play games at a framerate i'd like to, sometimes even on default 'medium' settings. (I play Assassins Creeed Odyssey, NFS Payback, Sims 4 amongst other seldom played games)

 

I have an uncertainty over whether my cpu is bottlenecking my build, or whether I am asking too much from the graphics of my games when I play, in terms of settings.

 

From what I can tell settings are quite important for games and how important they are. Could I know what settings I should look out for when tuning specifically for my rig?

 

And if I were to upgrade cpu, I wouldn't be able to afford a new motherboard, so I'd trade my CPU for a i7-47XX. Would y'all recommend me doing that?

[TH3R34P3R]

do you have a Z series motherboard? if so, get a 4770k or 4790k and you'll be set. also find a stick of ram that matches your current one's speed if you are not in dual channel. 

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1 minute ago, TH3R34P3R said:

do you have a Z series motherboard? if so, get a 4770k or 4790k and you'll be set. also find a stick of ram that matches your current one's speed if you are not in dual channel. 

this and get 16 or 32gb

ddr3 is cheap

[mercurialzu]

12 hours ago, TH3R34P3R said:

do you have a Z series motherboard? if so, get a 4770k or 4790k and you'll be set. also find a stick of ram that matches your current one's speed if you are not in dual channel. 

 

12 hours ago, ZuccX99 said:

this and get 16 or 32gb

ddr3 is cheap

thanks for ur responses!

my mother board is gigabyte ga-b85-d3h. and actually my bad, i recently bought an addition 8gb stick to run with my current one. so I have 16gb in dual channel. Slipped my mind

 

but i recently played this game. FAR lone sails. Which doesnt seem to be a very graphics intensive game. However after playing for 30-60 mins, I can observe some fps droppage. and visible stuttering in major scenes. From what I know, my set up would be able to play this simple game with ease.

 

I will consider getting an i7 as you have mentioned too.

 

P.S. I run OS off 250gb hp m700 ssd, and games off 1tb WD blue