Gaming performance

[Sh1eldsy]

Hey guys, i have an i5 4590, and a gtx 1050ti, 16 gb ram and a 450w psu. I run rianbow six siege at 1080p, i run all my settings at low, no tta with textures on medium. I get around 60-90 fps usually, and it dips below my 75hz refresh rate which gets annoying. I feel i should be achieving much better frames, could the psu be the problem? My friend has the same specs, but he has an i5 6400 instead, which isn't too much better than my cpu, yet he runs the game all high settings 1080p, what's the issue! Sites say i should be getting well above 60 on all medium!! If the update has changed a lot of these settings and that's the issue, should i upgrade my cpu or gpu? 

[Pixel5]

the PSU is fine, your system simply is not fast enough for much more FPS or higher settings, even a small CPU upgrade could make a big difference here but if you really want to have a huge boost you would want to upgrade both CPU and GPU but i would give the GPU priority.

[Sh1eldsy]

Would it be worth upgrading to an i5 4690k?or just upgrading mobo, ram and getting an even better cpu? Oh and I'll be upgrading my gpu to an r9 390x, how much will that help? 

[Onyx___]

9 minutes ago, Sh1eldsy said:

Would it be worth upgrading to an i5 4690k?or just upgrading mobo, ram and getting an even better cpu? Oh and I'll be upgrading my gpu to an r9 390x, how much will that help? 

Upgrading to the 4690K would help, and overclocking it would yield even better results. As for the GPU, the R9 390X is about as good as a 1060, while being a room heater at the same time. You'll notice the performance bump.

[Sh1eldsy]

So it is worth upgrading, I will plan to OC it, but can i do that on my current board? I can turbo boost the i5 4590 to 3.7ghz, the motherboard is a gigabyte h97 gaming 3

[AHaskin14]

1 hour ago, Sh1eldsy said:

So it is worth upgrading, I will plan to OC it, but can i do that on my current board? I can turbo boost the i5 4590 to 3.7ghz, the motherboard is a gigabyte h97 gaming 3

You won't be able to overclock on your current board unfortunately. What's the price you're getting the 390x for?

[Sh1eldsy]

The board let's be boost the frequency of my current cpu though, and I'm getting the 390x for 300AUD

[Underi]

Overclocking and intel's own turbo boost are different things. Overclocking means having higher base clock than normal.

[AHaskin14]

4 hours ago, Sh1eldsy said:

The board let's be boost the frequency of my current cpu though, and I'm getting the 390x for 300AUD

That boosted frequency is a "low key" overclock built into the cpu, of which the motherboard is capable of handling. Boards that are meant to support overclocking have increased power delivery features to fuel the chip to frequencies beyond what turbo boost allows. Intel's overclocking boards start with a Z or X. Hope that made sense.

[Guest]

I have an R9 390 and get about 75~80 fps on either medium or recommended. I forget which I have. 1080p. I’d say stick with NVIDIA because going between NVIDIA and amd drivers gives you a ton of annoying problems. Also I found NVIDIA gpu to be less buggy with drivers and whatnot. I bought a 1050TI at one point to see what it’d be like. I gave it to my brother and kept the R9 390 because it’s technically better & gives higher frame rates. (I have a 750 watt psu because it’s what came with the rest of the components.)