Next PC upgrade… but what?

[Levaaai]

Hi all,

 

I’m an amateur PC gamer from the Netherlands and during the COVID lockdown I built my first gaming rig. I recently got Jedi: Survivor and have been enjoying the game so far. I have a 165 Hz 1440p gaming monitor from Dell and would like to play games like this at 1440p with preferably 80+ FPS (right now I am getting between 40 and 60 on medium to high settings). For me the game is definitely still enjoyable but I was just wondering what PC part would be wise to upgrade first to improve the performance? My specs right now are:

 

GPU: RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

RAM: 2x8GB 3200 MHz DDR4 (HyperX FURY)

Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS Wifi

PSU: NZXT C650 650W ATX PSU

 

Is my CPU perhaps bottlenecking my GPU? What would you guys recommend?

[Guille.R]

It’s possible that ur cpu is making some botle neck for ur graphic cards, that said u may want to check the temps on cpu since maybe it’s thermal throttling. What cooler are u using? Also if u wanted to upgrade ur cpu I’d probably recommend going next gen amd but it will mean to buy new cpu new mobo and new ram so maybe it’s worth waiting some time like this for u.

[Jon-Slow]

Jedi Survivor is incridibly unoptimized. You could get the best possible PC and it still has frame drops and stutters. Only frame-gen makes that game somewhat tolerable. Your 3070 ti should be able to give you a 60fps in a game like that if the game was normal but it isn't. But naturally if you have to upgrade for that game then you need something that can do DLSS3 now that they have officially implemented it.

[191x7]

24 minutes ago, Levaaai said:

Hi all,

 

I’m an amateur PC gamer from the Netherlands and during the COVID lockdown I built my first gaming rig. I recently got Jedi: Survivor and have been enjoying the game so far. I have a 165 Hz 1440p gaming monitor from Dell and would like to play games like this at 1440p with preferably 80+ FPS (right now I am getting between 40 and 60 on medium to high settings). For me the game is definitely still enjoyable but I was just wondering what PC part would be wise to upgrade first to improve the performance? My specs right now are:

 

GPU: RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

RAM: 2x8GB 3200 MHz DDR4 (HyperX FURY)

Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS Wifi

PSU: NZXT C650 650W ATX PSU

 

Is my CPU perhaps bottlenecking my GPU? What would you guys recommend?

I would upgrade the CPU to a Ryzen 5800X3D while those are still available.

Then I'd add more RAM. That's also a cheap upgrade.

And, lastly, a stronger GPU with more VRAM. The Radeon 7800XT would be a nice upgrade.

[leclod]

Yes, first check your temps under load and Ram usage. You could use MSI Afterburner for that. it gives nice curves other a long time

Edited November 16, 2023 by leclod

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, Levaaai said:

Hi all,

 

I’m an amateur PC gamer from the Netherlands and during the COVID lockdown I built my first gaming rig. I recently got Jedi: Survivor and have been enjoying the game so far. I have a 165 Hz 1440p gaming monitor from Dell and would like to play games like this at 1440p with preferably 80+ FPS (right now I am getting between 40 and 60 on medium to high settings). For me the game is definitely still enjoyable but I was just wondering what PC part would be wise to upgrade first to improve the performance? My specs right now are:

 

GPU: RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

RAM: 2x8GB 3200 MHz DDR4 (HyperX FURY)

Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS Wifi

PSU: NZXT C650 650W ATX PSU

 

Is my CPU perhaps bottlenecking my GPU? What would you guys recommend?

I'd say you're rather GPU bound , but it's easy to check/confirm : install Afterburner and look at GPU usage ingame, it's GPU bound if not at 100%