Bottleneck investigation

[fdvf]

 

Hi all,

 

This is not really a new build but i've upgraded CPU (from Ryzen 3 3100 to Ryzen 5 5500) and the GPU (from GTX 1650 4gb to RTX 3060 12gb). I've upgraded the ram a few months back from 16gb to 32gb.

 

But question really is if in the long run i'll see a bottleneck somewhere since the MB is the same (MSI A320M-A PRO MAX)?

 

Thank you.

[Eigenvektor]

Motherboard has very little influence on your machine's performance. It's just a board that connects the components that do the actual work (CPU/GPU/RAM)

 

Whether there's a bottleneck or not will depend on the games you play, how GPU and/or CPU intensive they are, which settings you use. There's no single yes/no answer. Use something like Intel PresentMon or MSI Afterburner and look at GPU usage. Is it well below 90%? You're likely CPU limited.

 

Is the performance still acceptable and the game playable? Then it does not matter.

[Why_Me]

18 minutes ago, fdvf said:

 

Hi all,

 

This is not really a new build but i've upgraded CPU (from Ryzen 3 3100 to Ryzen 5 5500) and the GPU (from GTX 1650 4gb to RTX 3060 12gb). I've upgraded the ram a few months back from 16gb to 32gb.

 

But question really is if in the long run i'll see a bottleneck somewhere since the MB is the same (MSI A320M-A PRO MAX)?

 

Thank you.

You'll be fine.

[jaslion]

A board rarely has influence on the performance of a cpu. HOWEVER you have a low end board that will not allow higher power cpu's (above 8 core ryzens) to run at full speed due to it's low end vrm and lack of cooling for said vrm (adding cooling won't help too much it just isn't up to the task).

 

Else besides missing pcie 4.0 which is NOT important as the only current card sort of maxing pcie 3.0 x16 is a 4090 a card that costs almost 3x the price of your pc so no worries there :p.

 

As for bottlenecks those are rarely a worry really. As long as games run fine don't worry about it.

[fdvf]

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Thank you all guys for the feedback