Hi. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to PCs but a friend said my CPU and GPU are running worse than it should be and I'm not really sure what's causing the bottleneck in my system. It might be my 7 year old motherboard or the CPU I poorly maintained (never applied thermal paste and never cleaned the dust out of the fans, now it runs 50 degrees idle and around 70-80 degrees whenever I play CPU demanding games w/o Overclocking) but I'd really like some feedback/solutions on what I can change to make my system run optimally without spending that much money.
My goal is to play Overwatch at 144+frames constantly on low settings and 1080p gaming.
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570k
GPU: Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 960 2GB
MOBO: ASRock H61M-VS
HDD: WDC 500GB (also a very old hard drive)
Memory: "Unknown" 1x4GB RAM
PSU: Don't remember. However, I've also had this thing for about 7 years. If nothing is wrong with the above then I'll make sure to check.
If I didn't put in enough information to determine whether my system is running fine or not, please let me know and how I can retrieve that info for you guys.
My goal is to play Overwatch at 144+frames constantly on low settings and 1080p gaming.
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570k
GPU: Nvidia (EVGA) GTX 960 2GB
MOBO: ASRock H61M-VS
HDD: WDC 500GB (also a very old hard drive)
Memory: "Unknown" 1x4GB RAM
PSU: Don't remember. However, I've also had this thing for about 7 years. If nothing is wrong with the above then I'll make sure to check.
If I didn't put in enough information to determine whether my system is running fine or not, please let me know and how I can retrieve that info for you guys.
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