Help, would like a faster setup..

[chazzles]

So my current setup is old.. I don't have lots of money so I won't be upgrading anything just yet, but for when I do I'd love to know what to do to make it better.

I have an Asus Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti, Intel Core i7-4790K CPU 4GHz, 32gb Ram, and my Vram is 8gb. I don't know much about building PC's so I don't know if that was obvious by knowing the gpu..

Any advice is appreciated, thanks :)

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, chazzles said:

and my Vram is 8gb.

No, it's not. If you have a 980 Ti, you have 6GB of VRAM, there wasn't an 8GB variant made. 

 

Realistically, you should upgrade everything in there. Your CPU probably needs it the most, but it's all 10 year old hardware and a relatively good match for each other. Save up a bit and just try to do one big upgrade rather than two smaller upgrades that won't really get their performance realized until you upgrade the other. 

[TylerD321]

Would check your drivers and make sure everything is up to date. Clean up start up programs in task manager. Make sure you have sufficient extra disk space to not slow your pc down.

 

Other things you could consider is cleaning your registry, defragging pc (only if you have HDD), or reinstalling OS.

 

Edit: I completely missed the point of this post... But yeah, try these things if you want to maybe see marginal improvement until you can afford changes.

Edited August 15, 2023 by TylerD321
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[Hinjima]

6 minutes ago, chazzles said:

So my current setup is old.. I don't have lots of money so I won't be upgrading anything just yet, but for when I do I'd love to know what to do to make it better.

I have an Asus Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti, Intel Core i7-4790K CPU 4GHz, 32gb Ram, and my Vram is 8gb. I don't know much about building PC's so I don't know if that was obvious by knowing the gpu..

Any advice is appreciated, thanks

To be honest, there is nothing I would upgrade in this system, because there is 'nothing to upgrade' Except a faster GPU, that would be silly with the CPU you have, major bottleneck.   The most logical step for you is a platform change.  New motherboard, new RAM and new CPU, the 980ti is still quite a decent 1080p card. 
Do you have a budget to work with?  Are we talking 100 dollars or 350 dollars?

And when you say you won't be upgrading anything just yet, things in the hardware space change quite a lot over a couple of months both in terms of price reduction and new releases.

[g0ated]

save up around 900 bucks and you would have a solid build in the meantime though you can try to oc your cpu if you are confident and make sure everything is updated. Do you intend to game or this setup is for something else? if you don't game and it might take you a while to save then why not use Linux for a while, it is light on resource and is extremally fast especially for old hardware like yours.

[chazzles]

So I'm currently out of work and have no spare money for an upgrade, I just like to get opinions for whatever I should save for for the future; and yeah I'm aware new components are coming out all the time, so it's not great to talk about whilst I don't have the money now.

 

The only problems I have with it is COD has low frames (40-60fps on Vondel Resurgence) and even less when I'm streaming. I also stream, and the only other issue is that I need to use my GPU for encoding on OBS as it gives me the smoothest stream/recording, but sometimes it will stop streaming and say "encoder is overloaded" or something like that.. so.

 

So, I guess all I'd want to know is whether that means I need more V-ram or a better GPU; but true, realistically I should just save to upgrade the entire thing.

 

Apart from that other games work very well at 80fps minimum usually.. so it's not that big of a deal for me.

[chazzles]

Appreciate all the comments btw.

[TylerD321]

1 minute ago, chazzles said:

Appreciate all the comments btw.

For people to see your response, you need to quote them like this. Don't worry though, I will @ them this time!

 

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[RONOTHAN##]

7 minutes ago, chazzles said:

I just like to get opinions for whatever I should save for for the future; and yeah I'm aware new components are coming out all the time, so it's not great to talk about whilst I don't have the money now.

I will say, that's not really possible in the PC market. Stuff changes very frequently, so whatever makes sense to buy today won't necessarily make sense to buy in over a week, let alone a month or two. 

 

I'd pick a budget that you want to aim for, save up for it, then ask what to get when you're about ready to buy. For what you're trying to do, I'd probably aim for a $900 US minimum (though you can probably do this for a bit lower if you go used) and a $1200 target. From what I know about the latest COD is that it's very CPU and GPU intensive, so upgrading just the CPU or just the GPU won't do a whole lot for performance.

[Ebony Falcon]

Cheep b760 board with a 13400 and 16/32 3200/3600 ddr4 would be a huge upgrade for you, you could stretch ur 980ti for a bit longer at 1080p with fsr untill you can afford to upgrade that too