PC Enthusiasts needed: Locating System Bottleneck

[neision]

Herro Everyone!

 

Making this thread because I'm not getting the performance that I should out of my system.

 

I made a thread yesterday with regards to poor performance in Assassin's Creed 3 (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/704101-poor-fps-ac3/)

After settling on the possible conclusion that my GPU's video memory and or Assassin's Creed Anvil engine not favoring multi-core CPUs was the cause of the poor performance at that time. I played Rise of the Tomb Raider on near Ultra on 1080p and got around 45-50fps, which performed phenomenally!

Today I decided to be play an old classic Ryse: Son of Rome, where I ran into a lot of skipped frames when moving the camera in certain maps especially the jungle map with the abundance of dynamic foliage (Chapter IV : The King). Monitored the system for an entire half hour playing through and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Looking at my system specs I'm trying to narrow down possible bottleneck(s) that could could be causing said performance in such old games.

 

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4 - 4.2GHz
GPU: EVGA GTX 960 2Gb (reference)

RAM: Kingston Hyper X 8Gb 1600Mhz (DC 1333Mhz/ 667Mhz)

HDD: Crucial M500 128GB & a Cheap Transcend SSD

MOBO: Gigabyte   GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev 5.0)

PSU: Rosewill Capstone 750w 80+ Gold

Additional Info : Using a 1080p 60Hz Monitor on a cheap 15ft HDMI cable.

 

Now that we have the specs out of the way lets get down to business, I've listed the possible bottlenecks below and the reason why next to them, any advice would be appreciated, I purchased most of these parts back in highschool as I were on a budget, I'm presently in university and I still can't afford top end PC hardware, I cherry picked the parts because it suited my budget at the time and I knew they would be compatible with each other to some extent where it WORKS and it has worked for the past 3 years and has not failed me once to this day. So please don't judge my decisions at the time.

 

Motherboard Bottlenecking the entire system-

• My mobo is a 760g chipset motherboard, at the time all I cared about was getting an AM3+ socket board, I know there would be a substantial gain moving to a proper 990fx board for my 8350 and moving from the 4+1 phase power phase  to 8+2 I could juice a lot more power from the 8350.
   
• The motherboard is also an old Sata 3Gbs which isn't using my SSDs full potential.
   
• It also only supports 1333Mhz (rev 5.0) which also downclocks my 1600Mhz ram.
  
   

Graphics Card could be faulty-

• I mainly play CSGO, I hardly played casual games since I got the GTX 960, look at how the same card performs in systems similar to mine, persons get 15-20 fps difference and their games and they don't get those frame skips in those texture ridden games unless you throw a lot of textures at it's 2Gbs. Just a theory that I may have a faulty GPU or so.

Many thanks if you have reached this far into the OP and so much for your time and any contributions and or advice would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get around why I'm getting these frame skips and frame drops in these games.

 

 

 

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

8 minutes ago, neision said:

Monitored the system for an entire half hour playing through and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

 

 

That information is crucial. We need to know what the readings were on the monitoring: temperatures, CPU usage, GPU usage, CPU and GPU clocks (to detect potential throttling)...

[aries757]

what space said, we need to know this,  der

[neision]

10 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

That information is crucial. We need to know what the readings were on the monitoring: temperatures, CPU usage, GPU usage, CPU and GPU clocks (to detect potential throttling)...

 

8 minutes ago, aries757 said:

what space said, we need to know this,  der

i forgot to mention in the post that I had closed HWinfo by mistake when I was done, riva tuner and cpuz weren't logging as well, really sorry guys
you can check the post I linked in the thread here https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/704101-poor-fps-ac3/

There are some screenshots of some of the system stats monitored.

I'd run through Ryse again but it's late and I got an exam tomorrow

[neision]

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