Should I upgrade to dual channel ?

[FugSnug]

Well guys I'm pretty sure i currently have a cpu bottleneck because in Tom clancy's the division my cpu usage jumps up to 90 even 100% sometimes and while the cpu is at that usage my gpu usage usually decreases and I have pretty much tried everything for example: New Motherboard, another CPU, another PSU. but the only thing I haven't tried is upgrading my ram to dual channel the thing is though i don't have any DDR4 ram lying around so i have to buy some new ones but it would suck if it didn't help the performance so im asking you guys for help. Any tips?

 

Specs:

CPU: i7 6700k@4.5ghz

GPU:GTX 1080

Ram: 1x16 2133 Crucial

PSU: 600W EVGA G2

Mobo:Gigabyte z170 gaming K3 

[Izumi Reina]

With such a high end CPU I doubt adding new RAM will do anything since the memory controllers on the 6700k are great.

[FugSnug]

1 minute ago, Izumi Reina said:

With such a high end CPU I doubt adding new RAM will do anything since the memory controllers on the 6700k are great.

Then what do you think I should do?

 

[Izumi Reina]

Though If you are 'willing' to spend the money get two DDR4 8gb sticks with a 3000mhz+ clock

[Guest]

It won't be noticeable, maybe 1-2 fps if any. So I wouldn 't upgrade just for more game performance. And your CPU should be fine and not a bottleneck at all.

[Litargirio]

1 minute ago, FugSnug said:

Then what do you think I should do?

 

What are you using for storage?

[FugSnug]

1 minute ago, Litargirio said:

What are you using for storage?

WD Blue 1tb hard drive(7200 RPM)

 

[Litargirio]

2 minutes ago, FugSnug said:

WD Blue 1tb hard drive(7200 RPM)

 

No SSD? Well, there's your bottleneck, you're running everything off of the same mechanical drive.

 

Go buy an SSD and put your OS on it.

 

For now:

• Disable Windows Defender
• Disable Windows Search Indexer

 

Though you're probably not getting bad performance anyway, are you.

[FugSnug]

2 minutes ago, Litargirio said:

No SSD? Well, there's your bottleneck, you're running everything off of the same mechanical drive.

 

Go buy an SSD and put your OS on it.

 

For now:

• Disable Windows Defender
• Disable Windows Search Indexer

 

Though you're probably not getting bad performance anyway, are you.

Sorry i thought u meant the drive where i had my games installed.

Yes i do have an SSD for windows 256gb

 

And yes i am getting bad performance (50/60 fps with cpu on 90% and gpu on 60/70%)

[Litargirio]

23 minutes ago, FugSnug said:

And yes i am getting bad performance (50/60 fps with cpu on 90% and gpu on 60/70%)

At what resolution?

[FugSnug]

6 minutes ago, Litargirio said:

At what resolution?

1920x1080@120Hz

[Litargirio]

What about other games?

 

It's most likely something within the game's settings that is causing problems. Try to play around with the game settings a bit, switch between DX10/11/12 if that's possible, disable features, etc.