Noob here with mild computer experience. I do a bit of PC gaming and I'm particular about performance, I run through a TV, just upgraded my aged Sony 46" 1080p to a Samsung 55" KS8000 4k, which sort of kicked off the trouble.
Some games began running sluggishly, even when I rolled back to 1080p from 4k, while others were fine in 1080p. Dying Light and Far Cry 4 ran great with the old TV but not the new one. Doom4 and Borderlands 2 ran great when rolled back to 1080 on the new set.
I installed the GTX1080 card and I could crank Borderlands2 and Doom4 up to 4k and they run perfectly and look amazing. Still cant run Dying Light or Far Cry 3 - 4, they are playable but sluggish/laggy feeling. I figured CPU, but the CPU ran them in 1080 just fine before on the old TV. I arrived at the conclusion that my old CPU is bottlenecking somehow in a way that is outside my scope of understanding. So I almost bought an AMD 8350 (I know i7 is great but I'm on a budget and AMD has served me well so far). I researched and learned about the Ryzen chips nearly upon us so I decide to wait and see. I get that an old CPU can bottleneck an new GPU, but why only some games, and why would it behave differently on a different display. If all games were doing this I would get it. The games that run laggy take no significant improvement from changing resolution or graphic details from low to ultra, no real impact.
I just upgraded the TV, AVR and GPU, so I'm well over budget already. This Ryzen 1700x looks like a good bang for the buck deal. I know my current CPU is quite long in the tooth but I'm not good to drop another $800-ish on MB/CPU/RAM if I my issue is somewhere else. I ran HWinfo and fired up FC4 and it shows the GPU average use at ~30% but the CPU cores high of 98-99% but avg use only ~75%. In my novice interpretation the CPU is not maxing out and perhaps the bottleneck is happening elsewhere, somewhere beyond my grasp of experience. CPU runs some games great in 1080 with old TV, but not with new TV and much more powerful GPU. I thought this GTX1080 would run everything in 4k, which is why I bought it. Yet the games it wont run in 4k, it wont really run at any resolution or detail without being somewhat laggy. Stumped.
Card was GTX770, now upgraded to GTX1080
MB MSI NF980-G65
2x4 RAM DDR3
Pwr 850w (used to run my twin GTX460s)
AMD Athlon II 6 core 1090t
Tt case with 4 extra fans.
Win 7 64 pro.
Sound running HDMI from GPU> Onkyo HT > Samsung TV
All drivers current.
GPU is installed on the first PCIx16 slot with the 2x6 pin into 8 pin adapter included with the card.
Thanks for wading through all my rambling, I hope I got this in the right section and didnt omit any valuable information. Any guidance going forward is very much appreciated!
Thank you folks!
Some games began running sluggishly, even when I rolled back to 1080p from 4k, while others were fine in 1080p. Dying Light and Far Cry 4 ran great with the old TV but not the new one. Doom4 and Borderlands 2 ran great when rolled back to 1080 on the new set.
I installed the GTX1080 card and I could crank Borderlands2 and Doom4 up to 4k and they run perfectly and look amazing. Still cant run Dying Light or Far Cry 3 - 4, they are playable but sluggish/laggy feeling. I figured CPU, but the CPU ran them in 1080 just fine before on the old TV. I arrived at the conclusion that my old CPU is bottlenecking somehow in a way that is outside my scope of understanding. So I almost bought an AMD 8350 (I know i7 is great but I'm on a budget and AMD has served me well so far). I researched and learned about the Ryzen chips nearly upon us so I decide to wait and see. I get that an old CPU can bottleneck an new GPU, but why only some games, and why would it behave differently on a different display. If all games were doing this I would get it. The games that run laggy take no significant improvement from changing resolution or graphic details from low to ultra, no real impact.
I just upgraded the TV, AVR and GPU, so I'm well over budget already. This Ryzen 1700x looks like a good bang for the buck deal. I know my current CPU is quite long in the tooth but I'm not good to drop another $800-ish on MB/CPU/RAM if I my issue is somewhere else. I ran HWinfo and fired up FC4 and it shows the GPU average use at ~30% but the CPU cores high of 98-99% but avg use only ~75%. In my novice interpretation the CPU is not maxing out and perhaps the bottleneck is happening elsewhere, somewhere beyond my grasp of experience. CPU runs some games great in 1080 with old TV, but not with new TV and much more powerful GPU. I thought this GTX1080 would run everything in 4k, which is why I bought it. Yet the games it wont run in 4k, it wont really run at any resolution or detail without being somewhat laggy. Stumped.
Card was GTX770, now upgraded to GTX1080
MB MSI NF980-G65
2x4 RAM DDR3
Pwr 850w (used to run my twin GTX460s)
AMD Athlon II 6 core 1090t
Tt case with 4 extra fans.
Win 7 64 pro.
Sound running HDMI from GPU> Onkyo HT > Samsung TV
All drivers current.
GPU is installed on the first PCIx16 slot with the 2x6 pin into 8 pin adapter included with the card.
Thanks for wading through all my rambling, I hope I got this in the right section and didnt omit any valuable information. Any guidance going forward is very much appreciated!
Thank you folks!
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