Ram or mobo, which one is destroying my performance?

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I have a 980Ti and i7 6700, I thought the GPU and CPU are the only things that matter when it comes to performance, so I paid zero attention to Ram and mobo. I have an unknown brand of 16 GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM, and a HP thimphu motherboard.

But I'm getting absolute crap performance @ 1080P in many games on highest settings. 40-50s FPS in GTA 5 with enbs and reshade, 30-40s in Arma 3, 50s in Witcher 3 with graphics mods, 40-50s in Fallout 4 with graphics mod and enbs. Basically for all games, I just get significantly worse FPS compared to people with 980, and maybe half of what others get with 980Ti. There are people who get better FPS in the same game @ 1440P or even 4K...

So the only suspects are mobo and Ram, since the GPU and CPU both work and have normal temperature.

Can anyone confirm that either or both of them can in fact destroy performance? If so I will buy new ones and replace, but I want to be absolutely sure before investing the money and efforts.

Really appreciate all help!


 
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Yes your looking at the right place . Now motherboard is usually not an issue for the overall gaming performance. However windows 10 reported to have some kind of problems over the year for crappy gaming performance. I am sure its not your MOBO it could be RAM or something else entirely but not your MOBO . Check with a different RAM to be sure!

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It shows installed RAM: 16GB under system properties.
 

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http://imgur.com/AK5Ku6e

please lemme know if I'm not looking at the right place.
 

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Yes your looking at the right place . Now motherboard is usually not an issue for the overall gaming performance. However windows 10 reported to have some kind of problems over the year for crappy gaming performance. I am sure its not your MOBO it could be RAM or something else entirely but not your MOBO . Check with a different RAM to be sure!
 
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sorry I'm a newbie, I don't know what's the take-away from this post. Does it mean that the mobo and ram are not the cause of the performance issues?
 

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Maybe RAM is one issue. But not the MOBO. or maybe its windows 10.