question Sub-Par Frames

Magman5 · March 22, 2020

Hello,

I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong spot as I've only just found this forum, but I've got a question about my crappy frame rate for COD Modern Warfare. Currently my PC has an i3-8100 CPU with a 1060 GTX graphics card 6 GB and 8 GB of 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM. I tried to budget build my PC for about $600 for the first time a couple years ago, and until now have been extremely happy with how smoothly run games since I've play a lot of LoL, CS:GO, and GW2. However, I did only do 8 GB of ram, which at the time I was told not enough, but with the results I was getting didn't seem an issue. Well, now it might be. The issue I'm having is at all of the lowest graphics settings, and no other background tasks running I can really only push about 30 FPS out of MW, and if Discord is up that number just becomes super volatile. I recently looked up the minimum requirements and 12 GB of RAM is the minimum, which would seemingly make sense. Last Thursday I ordered 16 more Gigs of RAM (2 x 8 GB) to aid this issue, but then found out that 3 sticks is a bit of an inefficient number. So, is it going to be better to only use 2 instead of all three? Is the RAM even the issue or is it my graphics card? I'm thinking about upgrading another part on my PC soon, so recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks

Kilrah · March 22, 2020

If you're short on RAM then having more will be way more important than the slight speed penalty for not running dual channel. But running 2x8 should be enough and avoid that... You should proably just try both. Skip on the 3rd stick if performance loss is significant and you don't have use cases where more than 16 are useful.

Check CPU usage too as MW is pretty brutal on that front.