PC Underperforming in games

DanteFalcioni · December 20, 2024

Hey everyone, earlier this year I upgraded from an i5-4440/GTX 1060 3GB to my new computer and expected an insane jump in gaming. However, I feel very underwhelmed with what I've experienced so far. My new PC specs are as follows:

- i7-8700 / RTX 3070Ti / 32GB 2133 MHz DDR4 that I've got running at 2667 MHz / 512GB M.2 NVME / 1000W EVGA 80+ GOLD

- My motherboard is a B360M Xtreme from a CyberPowerPC pre-built which is kind of shitty, and doesn't support Rebar.

I know my CPU is quite the bottleneck for the 3070Ti - the previous owner had done a GPU upgrade first but didn't end up doing any other upgrades. But I know that the FPS I'm getting on my games is lower than what you should be getting with my hardware. I understand that my CPU is maxing out on the below stats, but I thought that the max my PC could do would be a lot better...

FORTNITE (I used fortnite built in FPS + task manager and Core Temp to monitor the following):

1080p High Settings + View Distance Epic, capped FPS 120

CPU @ 98-100% entire game, temps normal (70s)

GPU @ around 30-50%, temps normal (50)

FPS while jumping from bus was 50 highest, below 10 lows

FPS while plying was around 70-90 average, 30-40 lows

FPS while in a fight would drop again with lows under 20

1080p Low Settings + View Distance Epic, capped FPS 120

CPU @80-95% entire game, temps normal

GPU @ 30-50% still, maybe a little lower on average

FPS while jumping is at 80 high, 20-40 lows

FPS while playing is 120 a decent amount of the time, lows usually stay in the 100-110 range but will drop to 70-80 occasionally. Definitely not maxing out at 120FPS though

Even when I play FC25, if I don't have a lot of the settings turned down like texture or crowd detail, it's just a bad experience, not smooth at all. I'm aware it's not the best optimized game, but ffs the recommended GPU for optimal performance is a GTX 1660 6GB lol.

So what is the problem here? CPU bottleneck? Slow RAM? No rebar? A combo of those 3? Anything else? Please if you have an answer, give me something more than just "upgrade your PC." Tell me why, I want to learn. I'm also willing to do other tests and show whatever settings you want to see. I just want to be sure that the next step here is actually upgrading my CPU/MOBO/RAM before I take the expensive plunge.