- Apr 26, 2017
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I'm still fairly new to PC building/hardware, so forgive my ignorance...
Anyways, I recently picked a used PC in a trade with the specs as follows:
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P
8GB DDR3 1600 Mhz
The GPU was an older HD 6770. I was in need of another good gaming rig and this appeared to be a fitting candidate. My intent was to replace the GPU with an EVGA GTX 1070 SC that was on the shelf at my local Best Buy, which I did as well as upgrade to a 850W PSU that was on sale.
After cobbling it together with the monstrous new card, everything seems to work *ok* but my issues are as follows:
The two games that I'm currently playing are The Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 and both have this same problem. I'm running max/ultra settings at 1080p on each and I can get 90 fps max with each game, however I seems to have severe stutter/drops in fps frequently as low as 45 fps. I can not seem to maintain steady FPS. I've tinkered with settings in each game, in GeForce Experience to optimize, and in Nvidia Control Panel, with no results even when turning the settings down to medium.
*At a certain point BF1 wouldn't even launch due to a driver error - but it appears this is a separate matter entirely and isn't the focus of my query.
After some research, I discovered that my CPU may be bottlenecking my GPU - which is something that I have read about prior but did not consider in this instance. Again, forgive my ignorance. Going forward - should I consider upgrading my CPU or could I get by with OC'ing my current CPU? The previous owner showed me that he had it OC'ed to 4.5 Ghz stable, but set it back to factory prior to selling it.
Any and all advice is appreciated.
Anyways, I recently picked a used PC in a trade with the specs as follows:
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P
8GB DDR3 1600 Mhz
The GPU was an older HD 6770. I was in need of another good gaming rig and this appeared to be a fitting candidate. My intent was to replace the GPU with an EVGA GTX 1070 SC that was on the shelf at my local Best Buy, which I did as well as upgrade to a 850W PSU that was on sale.
After cobbling it together with the monstrous new card, everything seems to work *ok* but my issues are as follows:
The two games that I'm currently playing are The Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 and both have this same problem. I'm running max/ultra settings at 1080p on each and I can get 90 fps max with each game, however I seems to have severe stutter/drops in fps frequently as low as 45 fps. I can not seem to maintain steady FPS. I've tinkered with settings in each game, in GeForce Experience to optimize, and in Nvidia Control Panel, with no results even when turning the settings down to medium.
*At a certain point BF1 wouldn't even launch due to a driver error - but it appears this is a separate matter entirely and isn't the focus of my query.
After some research, I discovered that my CPU may be bottlenecking my GPU - which is something that I have read about prior but did not consider in this instance. Again, forgive my ignorance. Going forward - should I consider upgrading my CPU or could I get by with OC'ing my current CPU? The previous owner showed me that he had it OC'ed to 4.5 Ghz stable, but set it back to factory prior to selling it.
Any and all advice is appreciated.
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