Motherboard Bottlenecking?

[PaddyShack07]

Hello LTT Forum,

 

I am a novice to pc building and just recently build my computer. Im not getting all of the performance I was expecting to. I have a odd question, can the fact that my motherboard is fairly inexpensive be bottlenecking my more expensive components. All of my parts are linked below.

 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jBYJ3F
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jBYJ3F/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($197.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($87.73 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card  ($294.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($61.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($89.89 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $988.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-31 02:50 EDT-0400

[NoMercy]

Most likely no. Motherboard do not affect performance. It is just about quality and feature.

 

Can you tell us what are you expecting and what have you achieved?

[PaddyShack07]

Im wanting to game at pretty high settings and have no worries about my pc being able to handle it. 

[Lolcrokn]

What resolution, what games what fps are you getting- more info please

[PaddyShack07]

1 minute ago, Lolcrokn said:

What resolution, what games what fps are you getting- more info please

Player unknown battlegrounds at medium setting and 1080. I'm getting weird jumps and glitches, could this also be from my network?

 

[Cyracus]

your mobo may limit cpu overclocking if the power delivery components suck. you should be able to do 1080p 60fps fine with that setup

[LienusLateTips]

No it doesn't matter but go with this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($197.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($104.64 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card  ($289.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: EVGA - B3 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.89 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($92.99 @ B&H) 
Total: $1001.24
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-31 03:27 EDT-0400

[Zyndo]

40 minutes ago, PaddyShack07 said:

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Motherboards do not typically inhibit performance as a function of themselves. inadequate VRM cooling or something like that could result in thermal throttling on your CPU, but that isn't really the motherboard's fault per se.

 

29 minutes ago, PaddyShack07 said:

Player unknown battlegrounds at medium setting and 1080. I'm getting weird jumps and glitches, could this also be from my network?

PUBG is reknown for its terrible optimization for it being in beta. You may be getting a normal amount of performance in other games, but in that specific game you may be running your face into a wall due to a poorly designed game rather than insufficient hardware. Yes your glitches could be internet/network related, but its all about exactly what the glitches you're seeing are. network issues usually (but not always) result in loss of control of your character or the environment around you freezing in some way. insufficient PC hardware usually results in crappy framerates, but the game itself runs fine (regardless that your ability to interact with it is diminished as a result of poor framerates/frametimes).

 

Your system is pretty good mid-range system and should not have issues with pretty much any games at 1080p. have you overclocked anything at all? having a CPU/RAM overclock should help a lot if you can set it up.

8 minutes ago, JDE said:

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Please read the OP. hes not asking for build suggestions, the build he listed is what he already has.

[PaddyShack07]

7 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

Motherboards do not typically inhibit performance as a function of themselves. inadequate VRM cooling or something like that could result in thermal throttling on your CPU, but that isn't really the motherboard's fault per se.

 

PUBG is reknown for its terrible optimization for it being in beta. You may be getting a normal amount of performance in other games, but in that specific game you may be running your face into a wall due to a poorly designed game rather than insufficient hardware. Yes your glitches could be internet/network related, but its all about exactly what the glitches you're seeing are. network issues usually (but not always) result in loss of control of your character or the environment around you freezing in some way. insufficient PC hardware usually results in crappy framerates, but the game itself runs fine (regardless that your ability to interact with it is diminished as a result of poor framerates/frametimes).

 

Your system is pretty good mid-range system and should not have issues with pretty much any games at 1080p. have you overclocked anything at all? having a CPU/RAM overclock should help a lot if you can set it up.

Please read the OP. hes not asking for build suggestions, the build he listed is what he already has.

 @Zyndo Thank you so much for your advice. I have not overclocked and have no clue how to do it. How much will that improve performance and how hard is it to do?

 

[Zyndo]

2 minutes ago, PaddyShack07 said:

 @Zyndo Thank you so much for your advice. I have not overclocked and have no clue how to do it. How much will that improve performance and how hard is it to do?

 

its as easy as going into the BIOS, changing a couple of numbers, and making sure you take things one step at a time. properly overclocking is more time consuming than it is difficult... but realistically speaking its extreeeemly easy. the process of changing numbers/overclocking (if you know what you're looking for and what to change) takes like 30 seconds.... but validating and stress testing your hardware to make sure its stable, and taking it in incremental steps so that nothing overheats, that can take hours, days, or even weeks depending on how hardcore you are (realistically an hour or two is fine for most users)

 

As far as how much performance you should expect to get? it depends on how high the overclock is, if you also overclock your RAM, what games you play, the settings you play them at, the resolution you play them at, your GPU pairing, and so on.....  but if you're being CPU limited (which is possible in a game like PUBG) you could expect to see some very serious gains. the performance tends to scale quite linearly if the system can keep up with the performance. for example lets say you have a 3GHz CPU and you overclock it to 4GHz, you could expect to see up to a 30-35% improvement in framerates, which could make all the difference in the world between stuttery unplayable mess and a totally smooth experience.

[Simon771]

Motherboard won't affect your performance in most cases.

 

But when it comes to overclocking ... that's another story. On bad motherboard you can't get stable/high overclock as you would get on more expensive ones.

So in the end it might cause lower performance, since you could get 100-200MHz more OC on better motherboard.

 

Then again, those 100-200MHz (at best) difference won't be huge deal in your games. Instead of 120fps you will have 115. And even that's not exactly true in all games.

[Zyndo]

9 minutes ago, PaddyShack07 said:

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Here is a video on Ryzen overclocking, but there are a plethora of other guides out there if you want more information:

 

[NoMercy]

20 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Motherboard won't affect your performance in most cases.

 

But when it comes to overclocking ... that's another story. On bad motherboard you can't get stable/high overclock as you would get on more expensive ones.

So in the end it might cause lower performance, since you could get 100-200MHz more OC on better motherboard.

 

Then again, those 100-200MHz (at best) difference won't be huge deal in your games. Instead of 120fps you will have 115. And even that's not exactly true in all games.

This is true, for ryzen at most 200mhz difference for the best motherboard vs the worst motherboard.

 

 

[Simon771]

21 minutes ago, NoMercy said:

This is true, for ryzen at most 200mhz difference for the best motherboard vs the worst motherboard.

Yap that's true.

In most cases, CPU is it's own limitation for the OC.

 

Motherboard can only do as much.