High End Pc FPS on Fall Out 4 and Skyrim

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i play fall out 4 on my pc i built and i just upgraded the graphics card to a gtx 1070 im pulling a constant 72 on medium/high graphics on fall out 4 is this normal and if i buy skyrim and play on medium/high what would the average fps be? anyone know

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GPU: Asus GTX 1070
CPU: I5 4670K w/ hyper212 cooler
PSU: 750W Corsair
RAM: 2 4gb Corsair Vengeance 3200DDR4
MOBO: MSI Z87-G45

 
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I personally don't do more than letting my BIOS automatically handle it (I pushed a neat button in my BIOS and the Motherboard handles the rest). You'll have to find out how to get into your BIOS (it is either DEL or F11 at your post screen during bootup I think), but it should have a simple interface to allow the Motherboard to handle the overclocking (there should be a big neat looking button that basically says "I automatically OC for you" on the main BIOS screen). If you wanted to manually mess with that you'd have to find someone more experienced :)

The only real disadvantage of OC is that you run the risk of pushing your processor too far and killing it (I've been OCing for 4 years nonstop without problems). If the Motherboard is...
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Well, I could play Skyrim on maximum settings and 60 FPS on a GTX 750Ti, and now I have a GTX 970, I can play Skyrim on maximum settings (Maybe a little extra missed settings) and I'm not sure about Fallout 4, but I would expect a GTX 1070 to run close to maximum settings on there, which is unusual.

But no doubt you should be able to play 90% of games on maximum settings, but I can't judge on fallout 4 as I have not played it.

Skyrim is not a GPU Intensive game, believe it or not, it does not require a really good GPU for maximum settings, which is what adds it to one of my personal, favorite games.
 
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Fall out 4 if i play on ultra im around 65 stable fps and i think its my cpu holding me back if i can even go higher than that i have no idea dont know if i would suffer drops i will test this later i just want to know if i should be getting more fps on fall out for the GPU i have and is my CPU the reason its holding back

 
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Part of the issue could be that Skyrim has all kinds of bottlenecks by virtue of it being 32-bit. I would still recommend Skyrim, especially since the remastered version will be coming out for free for owners of the old version+DLCs. There are ways to get around the bottlenecks on the old version, but I would just play Fallout 4 until the remastered Skyrim comes out (it's what I'm doing, modding Skyrim is a dark and long road :p ).

The 4670k is a solid CPU though, so it could be that it isn't overclocked? From what I understand, you won't get very high fps on Fallout 4 even with the best stuff right now (optimization has never been Bethesda's MO), especially if you've added in lots of mods. I'm pulling about the same fps with an old i5-2500k that I OC'd to 4.2Ghz. I think there is just a CPU speed limitation, it certainly isn't your GPU.
 
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Oh okay thank you for that. My 4670k is not overclocked i thought about it what are the advantages of doing it and the disadvantages and is it easy or hard to do i'm new to overclocking so its something i need to pick up on

 
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I personally don't do more than letting my BIOS automatically handle it (I pushed a neat button in my BIOS and the Motherboard handles the rest). You'll have to find out how to get into your BIOS (it is either DEL or F11 at your post screen during bootup I think), but it should have a simple interface to allow the Motherboard to handle the overclocking (there should be a big neat looking button that basically says "I automatically OC for you" on the main BIOS screen). If you wanted to manually mess with that you'd have to find someone more experienced :)

The only real disadvantage of OC is that you run the risk of pushing your processor too far and killing it (I've been OCing for 4 years nonstop without problems). If the Motherboard is handling it, you should be alright, you only run into real risk when you are manually adjusting it. The Motherboard will always automatically run a bit below what your processor can handle (I probably could push up to 4.5 manually but I would then risk killing the processor). The processor will heat up more, but you have a sink designed for OC anyways and that "k" at the end of the processor name means it is rated for being OC. I think MSI uses something called "OC genie" but since I use ASUS I don't know what their layout is like, it should be pretty simple to activate the OC though.

In simple terms, your processor should be fine as long as you are not manually changing values, a little more heat will be coming out of your case though. To allay any fears, the extra funds spent for that "k" were meant for OCing and your computer *should* shut itself off before permanent damage to the processor, allowing you to turn it off when you boot again. It's worth it though since you'll be getting top-of-the-line processor performance with an older processor (my ancient i5 holds its own with the modern variants solely because of OC).
 
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