cant find apparent bottleneck in system.

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heres my build,
i5-6500 quad core
gigabyte gtx 1060 6g
g skill ares ddr3 1600 1.5v
asrock h110m-dvs/d3 Matx mobo
500w evga powersupply
deepcool gammax cpu cooler
and a seagate 2 tb 7200 rpm hard drive (oldest componet at about 3 years old)
27 inch 1080p monitor 50hz tn panel. samsung

i compare my gameplay to my friends systems gameplay and he has a pentium g4400 and a 750 ti, and overall his gameplay seems smoother, his frame count is lower but my game is a lot choppier, a little janky. when i max out world of warcraft (with AA maxed) i get 30 fps in some places. ive considered that im running 1.5v ram on a skylake system but dont know if that would cause a ton of noticable issues. ive also considered my hdd is old and packed full of useless things using up resources. maybe there is no bottleneck. im not computer illiterate but i am no pro. thanks for the help.

 
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Might/might not be the case. But my reason for posting that link was more to clarify the point that skylake works best with ddr4. It also works with DDR3 but to find the bottleneck, you can test with compatible DDR4 ram, either borrowing from someone you know or visiting a professional store in your vicinity. I am sure they wont charge you anything just for testing.
If the issue follows thereafter, then we can atleast absolve that part and move on to other possible component issues.
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That's been debunked. The source of the article is MJ here at THW, and he pulled it out of his ass. He was also the one that spread all the BS about no longer being able to overclock non-K. Just a bunch of hoopla click bait that I called him out on.
 
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Your obvious weakest part is your HDD. SSD will greatly help load times, which can reduce stutter in game worlds which dynamically load areas.

Second is CPU, despite being new, your i5 is clocked slow enough to struggle in some choked up areas of games. There's nothing you can do about it because your board does not allow any overclocking.
 
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Is the comment by the moderator here also crap???
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2969817/skylake-cpu-ddr3-ram.html


what about these???
http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/anton-shilov/intel-prolonged-usage-of-ddr3-memory-at-default-voltages-can-damage-skylake/
http://www.eteknix.com/intel-admits-ddr3-ram-can-damage-skylake-processors/


and all the other reports on various other websites???
 
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Yup. Trust me I took all these knuckleheads into a room and beat them already. If you closely examine the sources, they all circle inward until they end up with MJ Sexton as the original source, and let's just say I've had some words with him about pulling this out of his ass.

The Skylake DDR3 IMC is identical to that of Haswell. It supports LV DDR3, in that older IMCs could not. As far as the regular DDR3, it's still supported by Intel because they have to follow JEDEC specs. However keep in mind that Intel doesn't support anything faster than DDR3-1333 on any of these platforms. Of course we know that with proper tuning you can certainly run some pretty blazing fast RAM on Haswell (overclocking), and you can do the same with Skylake. I personally run DDR3-2400CL9 on my Skylake i3.
 
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What you won't find is any proof, and that's why I got into a huge argument with MJ because he doesn't have any testing (nor does anyone) that proves that it doesn't work, but I have proof via my own testing lab which has been running this way 24/7 for 8 months. Those sites are just click-bait parrots that don't contribute any real news, only speculation and hearsay.
 
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not that i dont beleive in wat u r saying...but is there any significant details that can support the same??? some test results in ur terminologies or similar???
i can be certain for sure in that case...
 
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The fact that i have rigorously stress tested for almost a year should be enough. MJ didn't test anything nor does he even own test equipment. I thibk he said he is barely old enough to drive. I thibk his daddy got him the job as news contributer here.
 
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so do you think that my cpu is damaged from it? i plan on getting a new cpu sometime soon anyways so should i just get new ddr3l ram or full upgrade to ddr4? maybe a full overclockable upgrade? your thoughts are aprreciated
 
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Might/might not be the case. But my reason for posting that link was more to clarify the point that skylake works best with ddr4. It also works with DDR3 but to find the bottleneck, you can test with compatible DDR4 ram, either borrowing from someone you know or visiting a professional store in your vicinity. I am sure they wont charge you anything just for testing.
If the issue follows thereafter, then we can atleast absolve that part and move on to other possible component issues.
 
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