Need help finding bottleneck

[Rainbrew]

I've recently purchased GTA V on the steam sale and confidently went into the game expecting being able to slam all the settings to max and have a nice stable 60fps on my gtx 1060, especially since I'm playing at 1680x1050 due to an old monitor. The issue is though that I usually hover around 50-ish FPS when playing in windowed with the fps frequently dropping way below 20fps seemingly at random, and that's on a mix of medium to high settings. I assume that this is a bottleneck but I have no idea what it could be so I need your help. I'm running the following hardware:

MSI Gaming X GTX 1060 (6GB)

i7-2600 cooled with a Cooler Master 212 Hyper 212 Evo

8gb of some cheap ram (got computer off of cheap friend been upgrading it since)

Gigabyte Motherboard with PCI-E 2.0

WD Blue 1TB Hard drive

I have no clue what could be causing the fps drops, the processor is never going above 75% and that's only during loading with the hard drive hovering at >30% and ram floating in the high 80s and low 90s. From what I'm aware the pci-e port not being 3.0 should cost me ~4-5FPS. Thanks in advance!

[RileyTheFox]

5 minutes ago, Rainbrew said:

I've recently purchased GTA V on the steam sale and confidently went into the game expecting being able to slam all the settings to max and have a nice stable 60fps on my gtx 1060, especially since I'm playing at 1680x1050 due to an old monitor. The issue is though that I usually hover around 50-ish FPS when playing in windowed with the fps frequently dropping way below 20fps seemingly at random, and that's on a mix of medium to high settings. I assume that this is a bottleneck but I have no idea what it could be so I need your help. I'm running the following hardware:

MSI Gaming X GTX 1060 (6GB)

i7-2600 cooled with a Cooler Master 212 Hyper 212 Evo

8gb of some cheap ram (got computer off of cheap friend been upgrading it since)

Gigabyte Motherboard with PCI-E 2.0

WD Blue 1TB Hard drive

I have no clue what could be causing the fps drops, the processor is never going above 75% and that's only during loading with the hard drive hovering at >30% and ram floating in the high 80s and low 90s. From what I'm aware the pci-e port not being 3.0 should cost me ~4-5FPS. Thanks in advance!

 

The CPU is quite old and is causing the bottlenecks. Even though it's an i7, look at the model number and it's quite low (meaning that it would have been made quite a while ago)

 

[RileyTheFox]

4 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

The CPU is quite old and is causing the bottlenecks. Even though it's an i7, look at the model number and it's quite low (meaning that it would have been made quite a while ago)

 

 

Just found out that this processor was first available on Amazon on the 9th of January 2011. This CPU is almost 6 years old and it is paired with a card that is only a few months old  Obviously there will be huge bottlenecks

[Rainbrew]

Just now, EvilCat70 said:

Just found out that this processor was first available on Amazon on the 9th of January 2011. This CPU is almost 6 years old and it is paired with a card that is only a few months old  Obviously there will be huge bottlenecks

My wallet is crying with every second I look at your response

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, Rainbrew said:

My wallet is crying with every second I look at your response

 Sorry to break that news to you! But with the GTX 1060 (which is more than enough to run a game that is 3 years old) there's going to be problems.