Overclock or no?

[Zando_]

You can always try pushing the CPU core clocks a bit, pushing your RAM to 3200Mhz (most 3000 kits do this easily) and tweaking the timings as low as possible, should make a noticeable difference, especially on Zen. Though dropping in a 3600 is an excellent option as well, if you can cover that with the sale of your 1050 Ti and 2400G then hell yeah. Much better chance of hitting 144Hz too, I never had much luck consistently pushing that with Zen or Zen+ chips (R5 1600 and R7 2700X in my case), Zen 2 is a massive improvement for high refresh rate gaming though. 

[Quivz]

I found using windows power management to limit your CPU to 75% and then playing a particular game , then using GPU overclocking software to UNDERclock your GPU and playing the same game (with the CPU back at 100%) gives you a pretty good indication of whats hurting you more.

[Cam B]

On 12/12/2019 at 7:47 AM, InfernalClaw said:

So i recently bought a 144hz monitor and its great but my pc doesnt manage to pull 144fps on all games due to my cpu bottleneck. i use a ZOTAC AMP gtx 1660 ti with a ryzen 5 2400g with 16gb ram ddr4 3000mhz (idk if its dual channel or not i only have 2 ram slots and my ram sticks are in there so i dont know if that counts as a dual channel or not) so what can u guys recommend other than buying new cpu? is overclocking a good option or what?

 

 

 

Thanks In Advance

If you have the cooling power definitely try an overclock. It may decrease the life of the country slightly taking it from a 10 year chip to an 8 year chip. But after 8years the 2400g will be irrelevant. So try an oc. Even the stock cooler can handle a mild overclock