I am currently looking to upgrade my pc for gaming performance knowing that in the near future it is neccesary to accomplish the goal of playing all modern games at 1080 with ultra to very high settings getting at 60 fps. I believe this to be a reasonable goal as my current setup runs GTA V at 30 - 40 fps with very high settings. However I cant decide if my CPU or GPU is bottlenecking me. On GTA at times it seems mostly the CPUs bottlenecking my system. I used hardware monitor while running the benchmark and my CPU stayed above 75-80% usage on all cores and sometimes peaked to 100%. This was also true on other games that are very demanding such as H1Z1 Just survive. In this game I ran the game with a hardware monitor and got the same usage on the CPU however When turning all settings to the lowest possible, watching my FPS be an average 30, then i cranked the graphics to the max possible with minimal change in FPS still an average of 30. The only difference was at higher setttings it began stuttering. This to me seems like it indicates a GPU bottleneck since the game plays at the same fps no matter the settings.
I understand that bottlenecks appear only on certain tasks and they exist constantly but are only visible when performing different tasks. I am trying to generally locate the bottleneck when playing games on highest possible settings.
MAIN QUESTIONS
If my CPU is holding me back Would you suggest a CPU that fits the current socket of my motherboard? (FM2+/FM2) Would you suggest a new Motherboard and new socket?
Is my system outdated to the point where I need a full upgrade?
Any other hardware Upgrades you would suggest?
My current Specs are
CPU - AMD A8 5600k APU overclocked to 4.0 Ghz
Motherboard - ASUS A88x Pro
Memory - 12gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 Mhz
GPU - EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB
750w PSU 80 plus bronze
I understand that bottlenecks appear only on certain tasks and they exist constantly but are only visible when performing different tasks. I am trying to generally locate the bottleneck when playing games on highest possible settings.
MAIN QUESTIONS
If my CPU is holding me back Would you suggest a CPU that fits the current socket of my motherboard? (FM2+/FM2) Would you suggest a new Motherboard and new socket?
Is my system outdated to the point where I need a full upgrade?
Any other hardware Upgrades you would suggest?
My current Specs are
CPU - AMD A8 5600k APU overclocked to 4.0 Ghz
Motherboard - ASUS A88x Pro
Memory - 12gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 Mhz
GPU - EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB
750w PSU 80 plus bronze
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