Feel like I'm bottlenecking something.

[KooKooMan117]

When playing BF1 I get lag spikes and I'm wondering what I upgrade to get my fps higher with a low cost. Im running BF1 at 2560x1080. 

 

I have an

GTX 950 Evga SC

AMD Athlon x4 845

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H

with 8gb of 1600 ram.

 

 

Im wondering if i need a better CPU or a better GPU and what would fit my system best? (amd cpu cause they are cheap :p) 

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, KooKooMan117 said:

When playing BF1 I get lag spikes and I'm wondering what I upgrade to get my fps higher with a low cost. Im running BF1 at 2560x1080. 

 

I have an

GTX 950 Evga SC

AMD Athlon x4 845

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H

with 8gb of 1600 ram.

 

 

Im wondering if i need a better CPU or a better GPU and what would fit my system best? (amd cpu cause they are cheap :p) 

You do need a better CPU, but an AMD one is not going to cut it. 

 

I would recommend a new CPU, motherboard and RAM, with the i5 6500. 

 

I have nothing against AMD, but currently they do not have anything that can actually go up against intel. 

[RS2007GOD]

Not gonna lie your prolly need both upgraded for decent setting at that resolution in bf1..

[KooKooMan117]

1 minute ago, Stardar1 said:

You do need a better CPU, but an AMD one is not going to cut it. 

 

I would recommend a new CPU, motherboard and RAM, with the i5 6500. 

 

I have nothing against AMD, but currently they do not have anything that can actually go up against intel. 

 

What CPU/MB combo would you recommend? 

[ARikozuM]

Battlefield 1 is currently having software issues and, yes, you need an upgrade.

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, KooKooMan117 said:

What CPU/MB combo would you recommend? 

Budget?

[RS2007GOD]

Just now, KooKooMan117 said:

What CPU/MB combo would you recommend? 

Go for one of the asrock pro4/hyper boards as they can oc the non k series cpus. Id suggest the Arock B150M Pro4/Hyper and an i5 6500. Overclock it to 4.4ghz and be happy ? Youd still prolly want a better gpu at some point.

[KooKooMan117]

2 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Go for one of the asrock pro4/hyper boards as they can oc the non k series cpus. Id suggest the Arock B150M Pro4/Hyper and an i5 6500. Overclock it to 4.4ghz and be happy ? Youd still prolly want a better gpu at some point.

 

i got a very low budget. and i dont got $200 to drop on a CPU :& 

[KooKooMan117]

4 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Budget?

as low as possible 

[RS2007GOD]

Just now, KooKooMan117 said:

i got a very low budget. and i dont got $200 to drop on a CPU :& 

Thats a shame. I use a i3 6100 ive oced to 4.6ghz if thats more in the budget. No issues with a 980ti in bf1.

[lx_srs]

3 minutes ago, KooKooMan117 said:

i got a very low budget. and i dont got $200 to drop on a CPU :& 

time to lower your resolution and settings then.  BF1 isn't really a very easy game to run.

[Kyol]

If you can overclock your CPU to about 4.2GHz, that should eliminate any bottleneck that's causing the 950 to slowdown.

[DrM]

7 hours ago, RS2007GOD said:

i5 6500. Overclock it to 4.4ghz

how would you go about doing that on a locked chip? bclk on skylake has been locked for a while unless you can find one of the old bios

 

you definately need a better cpu for bf1, since its a very cpu intensive game

[Jumper118]

44 minutes ago, DrM said:

how would you go about doing that on a locked chip? bclk on skylake has been locked for a while unless you can find one of the old bios

 

you definately need a better cpu for bf1, since its a very cpu intensive game

No its not,  there were roumor that they were going to stop it but they never did. 

[DrM]

6 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

No its not,  there were roumor that they were going to stop it but they never did. 

http://techreport.com/news/29686/asrock-kills-its-skyoc-bclk-overclocking-feature

Quote

The latest BIOS updates for some of the company's Z170 motherboards explicitly confirm that ASRock is removing the feature from its firmware. The beta BIOSes that included SkyOC in the first place have been scrubbed from the company's site, along with the announcement page for the feature.

if youre lucky, you might be able to find a board still with the old bios or flash it yourself.

[Prysin]

9 hours ago, KooKooMan117 said:

When playing BF1 I get lag spikes and I'm wondering what I upgrade to get my fps higher with a low cost. Im running BF1 at 2560x1080. 

 

I have an

GTX 950 Evga SC

AMD Athlon x4 845

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H

with 8gb of 1600 ram.

 

 

Im wondering if i need a better CPU or a better GPU and what would fit my system best? (amd cpu cause they are cheap :p) 

you need a new CPU and GPU. What i would suggest is to do one of two things;
A - Hold on for ZEN in feburary 2017 and get a GTX 1060 6GB (never buy the 3GB one) or RX 480 now.

OR

B - Get a i5 6600k (dont waste your time and money on a locked I5, just get the overclockable one right away rather then wait and spend more on a overclockable i5 later on). A Z170 board and a RX 480 or GTX 1060 6GB. Then overclock that i5 to 4.2-4.5GHz. Then you should see no more performance issues (for a while).

[RS2007GOD]

1 hour ago, DrM said:

http://techreport.com/news/29686/asrock-kills-its-skyoc-bclk-overclocking-feature

if youre lucky, you might be able to find a board still with the old bios or flash it yourself.

u can still do it my board has recent bios and does it fine

[pyrojoe34]

10 hours ago, KooKooMan117 said:

i got a very low budget. and i dont got $200 to drop on a CPU :& 

Save for a couple more months until you have ~$300 then grab an i5 (6500 or 7500 if it's out then/cheap enough) with a new mobo and some DDR4. (Even better if you save ~$400 for an i5-6500k + mobo/RAM)

 

Then start saving up for a new GPU.

[Jumper118]

4 hours ago, DrM said:

http://techreport.com/news/29686/asrock-kills-its-skyoc-bclk-overclocking-feature

if youre lucky, you might be able to find a board still with the old bios or flash it yourself.

Yeah like I said a rumour.  Asrock removing a feature that allows you to do it in Windows does not mean you can't do it any more,  you can even still get sky oc now. 

[SLAYR]

13 hours ago, KooKooMan117 said:

When playing BF1 I get lag spikes and I'm wondering what I upgrade to get my fps higher with a low cost. Im running BF1 at 2560x1080. 

 

I have an

GTX 950 Evga SC

AMD Athlon x4 845

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H

with 8gb of 1600 ram.

 

 

Im wondering if i need a better CPU or a better GPU and what would fit my system best? (amd cpu cause they are cheap :p) 

Lag spikes are network related, is it in the multiplayer parts that are having issues?

 

If it is single player check your cpu/gpu usages.

[NumLock21]

Lower your resolution and game settings.