Low FPS on a computer I built for a friend

[Swimsam1]

Specs 

motherboard: ASRock Bm450M

Processor: Ryzen 5 1600 6 core

graphics Card: previously was a scammed eBay card that would constantly crash his computer (amd sapphire) but now is a 
GTX 1050 ti single fan

Memory: one stick of 16gb Ddr4 ram by hyperX

power supply: 650 watt

hard drive: sea gate 250 gbs

no solid state drive.

 

my friends abs are are trying to play 7 days to die but the computer I built for him doesn’t have good FPS please help!!! 

[Duckster]

1 minute ago, Swimsam1 said:

Specs 

motherboard: ASRock Bm450M

Processor: Ryzen 5 1600 6 core

graphics Card: previously was a scammed eBay card that would constantly crash his computer (amd sapphire) but now is a 
GTX 1050 ti single fan

Memory: one stick of 16gb Ddr4 ram by hyperX

power supply: 650 watt

hard drive: sea gate 250 gbs

no solid state drive.

 

my friends abs are are trying to play 7 days to die but the computer I built for him doesn’t have good FPS please help!!! 

FPS average?

I think your pc is held back (fps wise) because it has 1 stick of ram.

 

 

[BetteBalterZen]

5 minutes ago, Swimsam1 said:

Specs 

motherboard: ASRock Bm450M

Processor: Ryzen 5 1600 6 core

graphics Card: previously was a scammed eBay card that would constantly crash his computer (amd sapphire) but now is a 
GTX 1050 ti single fan

Memory: one stick of 16gb Ddr4 ram by hyperX

power supply: 650 watt

hard drive: sea gate 250 gbs

no solid state drive.

 

my friends abs are are trying to play 7 days to die but the computer I built for him doesn’t have good FPS please help!!! 

1050Ti, Single-channel RAM - this doesn't exactly help performance. 

What games are your friend playing? What resolution? What FPS is he getting now? 

[Downkey]

7 minutes ago, Swimsam1 said:

Specs 

motherboard: ASRock Bm450M

Processor: Ryzen 5 1600 6 core

graphics Card: previously was a scammed eBay card that would constantly crash his computer (amd sapphire) but now is a 
GTX 1050 ti single fan

Memory: one stick of 16gb Ddr4 ram by hyperX

power supply: 650 watt

hard drive: sea gate 250 gbs

no solid state drive.

 

my friends abs are are trying to play 7 days to die but the computer I built for him doesn’t have good FPS please help!!! 

its the ram. Add a second stick of the same speed 

[SignatureSigner]

Well what fps ARE you getting? What type of preformance are you expecting? 

There are many things wrong with this build.

Single channel with ryzen

250gb hdd is slow for texture loading.

but yet you have a 650watt PSU. So ethier you spent tons on you Power Supply or just had one laying around 

 

What speed are you running your ram at?

 

[Swimsam1]

1 minute ago, BetteBalterZen said:

1050Ti, Single-channel RAM - this doesn't exactly help performance. 

What games are your friend playing? What resolution? What FPS is he getting now? 

Before his computer would crash now he is getting very low FPS do you think if I gave him two of my 8 gb sticks and took his 16 stick I would see a downgrade in performance myself? I have three sticks of 8gb ram two Corsair sticks and one hyperX

[BetteBalterZen]

Just now, Swimsam1 said:

Before his computer would crash now he is getting very low FPS do you think if I gave him two of my 8 gb sticks and took his 16 stick I would see a downgrade in performance myself? I have three sticks of 8gb ram two Corsair sticks and one hyperX

I think you should start with saying what resolution your friends plays in and what FPS he's getting. 

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, Swimsam1 said:

Before his computer would crash now he is getting very low FPS do you think if I gave him two of my 8 gb sticks and took his 16 stick I would see a downgrade in performance myself? I have three sticks of 8gb ram two Corsair sticks and one hyperX

did you uninstall the old drivers with ddu and install the new 1050ti ones?

[Swimsam1]

Just now, Downkey said:

did you uninstall the old drivers with ddu and install the new 1050ti ones?

No we did not

[Duckster]

1 minute ago, Swimsam1 said:

Before his computer would crash now he is getting very low FPS do you think if I gave him two of my 8 gb sticks and took his 16 stick I would see a downgrade in performance myself? I have three sticks of 8gb ram two Corsair sticks and one hyperX

they would run in single channel, so yes

[Downkey]

Just now, Swimsam1 said:

No we did not

thats the culprit (the single channel ram also kills your fps)

[Swimsam1]

Just now, BetteBalterZen said:

I think you should start with saying what resolution your friends plays in and what FPS he's getting. 

I’m very sorry I’m just trying to communicate and I understand the frustration my friend is very mad at me and I’m very disappointed in myself 

[SignatureSigner]

Just now, Swimsam1 said:

No we did not

do you have ANY drivers installed?

[BetteBalterZen]

1 minute ago, Swimsam1 said:

I’m very sorry I’m just trying to communicate and I understand the frustration my friend is very mad at me and I’m very disappointed in myself 

Take your time, no rush. 

[Swimsam1]

2 minutes ago, SignatureSigner said:

do you have ANY drivers installed?

The old ones should have been installed cause the amd control catalyst shows up

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, Swimsam1 said:

I’m very sorry I’m just trying to communicate and I understand the frustration my friend is very mad at me and I’m very disappointed in myself 

okay well 

Uninstall the bad radeon drivers with DDU, then install the 1050ti ones in NVIDIAS website

Also tell your friend too not be rude, we have basically found the reason why the FPS is bad. Tell him to calm down and be patient.

Also a 2nd stick of RAM would help alot

[Swimsam1]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

okay well 

Uninstall the bad radeon drivers with DDU, then install the 1050ti ones in NVIDIAS website

Also tell your friend too not be rude, we have basically found the reason why the FPS is bad. Tell him to calm down and be patient.

Also a 2nd stick of RAM would help alot

Okay thank you guys so much!!!! Y’all are awesome 

[Duckster]

So to recap from what everyone is saying:

1.single channel ram is bad (get two sticks) and yes, you yourself will notice an fps drop if you put it in your own system.

2. uninstall bad drivers and install the lastest from NVIDIA'S website.

3. grab a beer

4. profit

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, Duckster said:

So to recap from what everyone is saying:

1.single channel ram is bad (get two sticks) and yes, you yourself will notice an fps drop if you put it in your own system.

2. uninstall bad drivers and install the lastest from NVIDIA'S website.

3. grab a beer

4. profit

ayo he could be underage

also reinstalling the new drivers should come first

[BetteBalterZen]

[jaslion]

Ok so a couple things to start

 

What 650watt psu. Please give us the model.

One stick of ram on ryzen really hurts the performance

A gtx 1050ti isn't exactly a great gpu but 7days ran fine on my by now ancient hd 7870 fx 8320 system and the 1050ti is a bit better than that.

[Moonzy]

people people

stop acting like single channel RAM is the end of the world, it's only about... 10-20% perf difference at best?

 

i would recommend starting with DDU and reinstalling the latest drivers from nvidia's site

 

and do compare your results with people on youtube, see if it's expected behaviour or not at all

as sometimes low fps is just due to your hardware's capability and no amount of fixing will boost it

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Swimsam1 said:

I’m very sorry I’m just trying to communicate and I understand the frustration my friend is very mad at me and I’m very disappointed in myself 

And you still haven't answered the question...

[Mark Kaine]

Well, just DDU and install Nvidia drivers that should very likely fix the issue. 

 

2 hours ago, Moonzy said:

stop acting like single channel RAM is the end of the world, it's only about... 1

yeah, I agree, sure dual channel ram is preferable but the difference isn't that big, having the totally wrong drivers installed should have a much bigger impact on performance.