Is my computer being bottlenecked?

[Jessen]

Hallo
I have recently bought a new desktop, and wondering if it's being bottlenecked by my low ram amount.
Setup:
Geforce 1060 msi 6gb VRAM.
8gb ddr4 ram
Ryzen 5 1400 - overclocked to 3,92 ghz
Mobo: b350m gaming
If you have ideas what my next should be, please tell me

[kaiju_wars]

Not necessarily.  8GB is still enough for gaming, but in certain games you'll benefit from 16GB of RAM.

Honestly that's all your next upgrade should be, just bumping up to 16GB.  Otherwise, it's a nice system.

[Jessen]

1 minute ago, kaiju_wars said:

Not necessarily.  8GB is still enough for gaming, but in certain games you'll benefit from 16GB of RAM.

Honestly that's all your next upgrade should be, just bumping up to 16GB.  Otherwise, it's a nice system.

Okay thanks
You seem nice, hope I can bother you with another question. When I play "pubg" I get some stutter and my fps drops rather drastically, how can this be?
 

[Guest]

I would get an SSD, paired with a mass storage HDD. Would be great to install an OS on, and them games ofcourse.

 

I also have to agree that most games would be sattisfied with 8 gb of (fast) memory. But I did notice some improvements on my old A8 5600k APU system, when I went from 8 to 16 gb memory. But I would suggest looking at your memory usage. Windows 7 can have some nice gauges for it, and it's good enough for me. Not sure if windows 8-8.1-10 have those gauges... (they show memory and CPU usage in %)

[Princess Luna]

What frequency is the memory running at? could you stress/benchmark it with something like MSi Afterburner to log the usages and temps, take a screenshot and post, it helps a lot.

[kaiju_wars]

1 minute ago, Jessen said:

Okay thanks
You seem nice, hope I can bother you with another question. When I play "pubg" I get some stutter and my fps drops rather drastically, how can this be?
 

To be honest, I'm not sure.  I've never played pubg and don't know much about it. 

Sorry.  

[Jessen]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I would get an SSD, paired with a mass storage HDD. Would be great to install an OS on, and them games ofcourse.

 

I also have to agree that most games would be sattisfied with 8 gb of (fast) memory. But I did notice some improvements on my old A8 5600k APU system, when I went from 8 to 16 gb memory. But I would suggest looking at your memory usage. Windows 7 can have some nice gauges for it, and it's good enough for me. Not sure if windows 8-8.1-10 have those gauges... (they show memory and CPU usage in %)

Windows 10 have those gauges, and i have indeed been looking for an ssd, but isn't sure if it will be worth it

[Guest]

Pugb = PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds? Did you update your BIOS on your motherboard? All of them newest drivers? Which settings? (last question is mainly for other people since I don't play that game/have experiance with Ryzen yet)

 

Also:

 

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Jessen said:

Windows 10 have those gauges, and i have indeed been looking for an ssd, but isn't sure if it will be worth it

So my semi trolling message due to lack of full specs (such as powersuply) did have an use. (this seems to happen alot...) Getting an SSD is REALLY worth it. I used an ancient AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ untill ~9 months ago. I added an quality SSD to this system, although I only had SATA 2 on the motherboard. That system got an amazing speed boost. Things would be way moar snappy. Things would load "instantly", load times in games had huge improvements. I would REALLY suggest getting an SSD (at least 240-250 gb) before considering getting moar memory.

[Jessen]

4 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

So my semi trolling message due to lack of full specs (such as powersuply) did have an use. (this seems to happen alot...) Getting an SSD is REALLY worth it. I used an ancient AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ untill ~9 months ago. I added an quality SSD to this system, although I only had SATA 2 on the motherboard. That system got an amazing speed boost. Things would be way moar snappy. Things would load "instantly", load times in games had huge improvements. I would REALLY suggest getting an SSD (at least 240-250 gb) before considering getting moar memory.

This is the ssd i have been looking at (I have found a really nice used one)
Samsung 850 EVO, 250 GB
What i have heard of it's should be okay, but im not quite sure.

[Guest]

It should be really nice, however... I would not buy an used SSD. You don't know the history, without doing some propper diagnostics. And I doubt you can do that from an (online) consumer selling his old thing.

 

Lifespan of an SSD can be long, but if you use it incorrectly, it can die within weeks. (99.9% full, non-stop use, lots of read/writes will usually happen. There are YT vids about all of this)

 

I would save up a bit of them currency items, and get a new one. 250 gb SATA3 SSD's aren't THAT expencive anymoar, and you will notice a difference with load times of things. (like Windows, Skype, games and whatever software you would install on that drive) Might reduce stuttering, when a game needs to load lots of crap @ random during gameplay.

[genexis_x]

40 minutes ago, Jessen said:

Hallo
I have recently bought a new desktop, and wondering if it's being bottlenecked by my low ram amount.
Setup:
Geforce 1060 msi 6gb VRAM.
8gb ddr4 ram
Ryzen 5 1400 - overclocked to 3,92 ghz
Mobo: b350m gaming
If you have ideas what my next should be, please tell me

Should be fine

BTW what's the PSU?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Jessen said:

Hallo
I have recently bought a new desktop, and wondering if it's being bottlenecked by my low ram amount.
Setup:
Geforce 1060 msi 6gb VRAM.
8gb ddr4 ram
Ryzen 5 1400 - overclocked to 3,92 ghz
Mobo: b350m gaming
If you have ideas what my next should be, please tell me

If you only have one ram card you will see a decent boost from adding another just from bandwidth alone with ryzen.