way overdue for an upgrade -- need expert advice

kyn1972 · May 29, 2020

On 5/26/2020 at 4:29 AM, Game bot 9000 MK III said:

hmmm, this is kinda the opposite of all other suggestions, please elaborate more and help me understand your point of view. Are you saying that my motherboard and CPU are the reason I am having bad gaming experience in 1080p not the GTX970?

thank you for suggesting something different, I am not tech-savvy and I need to look it this issue from all possible angles.

No, I am simply pointing out that it might not be the sole reason so you should consider all your options.

If you want to stay with the current motherboard and cpu that is fine however keep in mind the video card may not solve the problem.

Game bot 9000 MK III · May 30, 2020

On 5/25/2020 at 5:17 PM, SavageNeo said:

-overclock the cpu. What psu do you have?

- buy something like rx 5700. What storages do you have?

Alright, there have been a development, thing improved a little and it is not terrible gaming experience anymore, It is not good either but I can live with that. here is what I have done:

1- I overclocked my CPU, managed to push it to 4.5 GHz at 1.31v (from 3.5 Ghz stock)

2- while I am in the bios I noticed my RAM clock speed is 1600 MHz, I was sure it is not what I bought in 2016, took a look at the memory sticks and confirmed that clock speed is 2133 MHz, So I watched a couple of video about that and quickly learned about XMP profiles, enabled that and now my RAM is running at 2133 MHz. cool.

3- I did one more thing. since I am convinced that gaming on 21:9 is too much to ask from my computer, so I went through NVIDIA control panel and changed sittings so that my computer sees my 21:9 monitor as if it was 16:9 (now I have black bars all the time). and GPU scaling override game scaling ...

The screen tearing is gone, I barely see it, and I am running games at high video sittings.

Given what I have done and the results from that, would you recommend any thing different, I still have 500 USD (may push it to 800) that I wish to spend to have better gaming experience but I do not know what should I spend it on.

hint hint; the future of X570 chipset looks promising, how about that?