Possible bottleneck in PC hardware

[Zaheen117]

Hello,
I recently bought a ZOTAC GTX 1070 AMP EXTREME. For the other components I have ASUS P8 P67 M pro motherboard, a core i5 2400 with 8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM, an Intel 540s 120 GB SSD for windows and other drives for storage. And for the power supply I have a Thermaltake Smart SE 730W.

Now my problem is that I am getting maximum FPS around 65 FPS on unigen heaven at 1080 ultra settings, and Im also getting locked at 60 FPS in Arkam Knight with the FPS limit turned off. I have checked the GPU monitor and found out that the GPU memory clock remains near 4000 MHz. And the overall FPS remains near 60 where it should be capable of breaking that barrier at 1080p. Now can anyone tell me if there is some bottleneck somewhere in the system as I am using relatively  older hardware in terms of CPU and Motherboard, or is there something wrong with my GPU of do I need to play with the setting somewhere, or I am missing some important information altogether.

 

Thanks in advance

[agent_x007]

DSR that thing to 4k - it should be OK
That i5 2400 may not be capable of driving GTX 1070 over 60FPS because of single thread performance.
Try locking all of CPU Cores to highest Turbo Multiplier available.

[Rodniz]

Please change ur text color, black theme users cant read it

 

Did you turned off v-sync?

[Matias_Chambers]

Your CPU is bottlenecking. 

[Zaheen117]

7 minutes ago, Rodniz said:

Please change ur text color, black theme users cant read it

 

Did you turned off v-sync?

No v-sync was turned on in all the instances mentioned above

 

11 minutes ago, agent_x007 said:

DSR that thing to 4k - it should be OK
That i5 2400 may not be capable of driving GTX 1070 over 60FPS because of single thread performance.
Try locking all of CPU Cores to highest Turbo Multiplier available.

I'll try doing that

 

8 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Your CPU is bottlenecking. 

I do plan on upgrading the CPU. I just wanted to know if there could be any issues other than those older components as well

[1Cup1Tea]

Big bottleneck with a locked Sandy. But a 2600K with high clocks would be nice.

[Matias_Chambers]

10 minutes ago, Zaheen117 said:

No v-sync was turned on in all the instances mentioned above

 

I'll try doing that

 

I do plan on upgrading the CPU. I just wanted to know if there could be any issues other than those older components as well

Upgrade your PSU to something like an EVGA G2/P2/T2 or anything from Seasonic, SuperFlower or XFX (excluding the XFX XT series) You don't need more than a 550W PSU. 

[Matias_Chambers]

What is your budget for the upgrade?

[Joshi_bo]

37 minutes ago, Zaheen117 said:

No v-sync was turned on in all the instances mentioned above

V-sync locks the framerate to the refresh rate of your monitor to eliminate screen tearing. Try turning v-sync off and see if that helps. An i5-2400 will bottleneck a 1070 a bit but not by a huge amount do you should still be able to get higher than 60fps.

[ace_cheaply]

Gtx 1070~=Titan X.  This video should give you an idea of how it is bottlenecking your system.

 

 

[Zaheen117]

10 hours ago, Matias_Chambers said:

What is your budget for the upgrade?

Im planning on going for an i7 6700K and a minimum of 16GB of RAM and an MSI Z170A gaming M3

. Shouldnt the current PSU work?

[Zaheen117]

10 hours ago, ace_cheaply said:

Gtx 1070~=Titan X.  This video should give you an idea of how it is bottlenecking your system.

 

 

Thanks for the video. That did help with the understanding

[Matias_Chambers]

1 hour ago, Zaheen117 said:

Im planning on going for an i7 6700K and a minimum of 16GB of RAM and an MSI Z170A gaming M3

. Shouldnt the current PSU work?

Your PSU will work but using such high end parts with such a low end PSU is not a good idea. It will fail sooner or later. When this happens it could potentially damage other parts in your system. It's basically the same as a ticking bomb.