Overwatch, i5-6500 and dual channel ram question

[mhe68]

Hello guys,I need your help.

My PC:

I5-6500

Gtx 1060

8gb 2133ram

 

I play overwatch on 100+ fps  and I have a lot of drops  in fights, I know it's because of my CPU's bottleneck ,but I also read that dual channel ram can help with it and will boost my minimum fps. Is it true? Thanks everyone.

[mhe68]

Can I bump?

[Monarch]

Yes it's true.

 

[gepowr]

16 hours ago, mhe68 said:

Hello guys,I need your help.

My PC:

I5-6500

Gtx 1060

8gb 2133ram

 

I play overwatch on 100+ fps  and I have a lot of drops  in fights, I know it's because of my CPU's bottleneck ,but I also read that dual channel ram can help with it and will boost my minimum fps. Is it true? Thanks everyone.

I don't think the i5 6500 is bottlenecking your 1060. At least not in overwatch, maybe in some cpu heavy games but overwatch is very light on the cpu in general so your 6500 should do fine. Are you using a single 8gb Stick of ram right now? Also can you take a screenshot with an ingame overlay which shows the usage of cpu, gpu and ram?

[mhe68]

2 hours ago, gepowr said:

I don't think the i5 6500 is bottlenecking your 1060. At least not in overwatch, maybe in some cpu heavy games but overwatch is very light on the cpu in general so your 6500 should do fine. Are you using a single 8gb Stick of ram right now? Also can you take a screenshot with an ingame overlay which shows the usage of cpu, gpu and ram?

Ow is played on low settings so my GPU used only on 40%( or 50 can't remember)

97-100%cpu, 75% ram.

 

Ye I use one single 8gb ram and I hope another tam stick can give me another10-20 fps so my minimum would be not 115-120 but 135 for example.

[mhe68]

10 hours ago, Monarch said:

Yes it's true.

 

He has a very powerful PC, do you think my PC will also benefit from dual channel?

[gepowr]

11 minutes ago, mhe68 said:

Ow is played on low settings so my GPU used only on 40%( or 50 can't remember)

97-100%cpu, 75% ram.

 

Ye I use one single 8gb ram and I hope another tam stick can give me another10-20 fps so my minimum would be not 115-120 but 135 for example.

Yup okay with low settings you are creating your bottleneck. Cranking up the settings would stress the gpu more while the cpu usage would drop drastically. With your cpu usage pinned at 100% at your settings i doubt that another 8gb would improve your fps by much probably within margin of error. However, upgrading from 8gb to 16gb is never a bad idea.

[mhe68]

29 minutes ago, gepowr said:

Yup okay with low settings you are creating your bottleneck. Cranking up the settings would stress the gpu more while the cpu usage would drop drastically. With your cpu usage pinned at 100% at your settings i doubt that another 8gb would improve your fps by much probably within margin of error. However, upgrading from 8gb to 16gb is never a bad idea.

How is this possible? I don't think better graphics and higher GPU usage will help CPU. But I will try it.

[gepowr]

5 minutes ago, mhe68 said:

How is this possible? I don't think better graphics and higher GPU usage will help CPU. But I will try it.

A cpu is always the bottleneck when it comes to high framerates. So setting all settings to low and maybe even lowering your resolution will hit the cpu harder because your gpu will have an easy time rendering at reduced settings. More fps -> more cpu usage. So putting the settings on ultra will hit your gpu harder and therefore reduce the cpu load (because you won't have that many fps). You are however not getting more fps. The "bottleneck" here is your cpu ("bottleneck" because your pc is very capable and i wouldn't call 135fps a bottleneck tbh. But from definition: yes your cpu is bottlenecking the gpu.).

[mhe68]

10 minutes ago, gepowr said:

A cpu is always the bottleneck when it comes to high framerates. So setting all settings to low and maybe even lowering your resolution will hit the cpu harder because your gpu will have an easy time rendering at reduced settings. More fps -> more cpu usage. So putting the settings on ultra will hit your gpu harder and therefore reduce the cpu load (because you won't have that many fps). You are however not getting more fps. The "bottleneck" here is your cpu ("bottleneck" because your pc is very capable and i wouldn't call 135fps a bottleneck tbh. But from definition: yes your cpu is bottlenecking the gpu.).

Yes ,so there is no reason to change graphics settings. Overwatch needs those high fps, I don't care about usage or better shadows etc.

[gepowr]

4 minutes ago, mhe68 said:

Yes ,so there is no reason to change graphics settings. Overwatch needs those high fps, I don't care about usage or better shadows etc.

Yup. Only visual thing you could do is mess around with the settings until your gpu hits 99% usage. This will improve the visual quality while theoretically maintaining the same high fps.

[Monarch]

1 hour ago, mhe68 said:

He has a very powerful PC, do you think my PC will also benefit from dual channel?

 

Definitely. Here's a test on a system similar to yours, 1060 and an i5: