RAM affecting frame rates?

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ahoq123

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Hey all,

Just finished my first build (Woo!), however I don't think I'm getting the most out of my system yet.

Specs :

Motherboard: MSI H270 Gaming M3
Video card: ASUS ROG Strix RX-580
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750W
CPU : Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz 6MB
RAM : Kingston HyperX Fury RAM 16GB x 1
HDD: WD WD10EZEX Blu Hard Disk Desktop 1 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 GB/s, 64 MB Cache

I have all of my drivers up to date, but I am getting about 27-30 FPS in high density areas on WoW on ultra settings. I just had a couple of questions concerning it.

1. Would me only having 1 stick of ram (I accidentally bought 1x16gb, instead of 2x8gb) and not utilizing dual-channel RAM affect frame rates?

2. I thought my system had the specs to run WoW on Ultra, is that wrong?

3. Would overclocking CPU help?

4. My video card is reading temps of 54 - 60C ingame, so I think I may be able to overclock within safe temps. Is it recommended to overclock? I've never done it before.

Any other feedback as to why I may not be potentially maximizing my rigs specs would be much appreciated. Happy Friday !
 
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herrwizo
There are many factors involved that can affect your framerates.

Ultra settings, even on WoW, are actually quite tasking. Try to tune them a little, even a single tweak can do wonders. Besides, each reviewer uses a specific set of settings, drivers, OS... heck, even the game version matters a lot. Not to mention the brand of the card, its clocks and so on.

Your CPU is more than enough, but maybe some background app is using it too much, even while idle.

Definitely monitor your CPU usage and temperature, both while idle at desktop and while ingame. Do the same with GPU. Then we can analyse further.

Which driver version are you using for your GPU, btw?

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I would start by monitoring CPU and GPU usage ingame (use openhwmonitor or similar utility for that).

I'd say that best you can do is tweak the game settings a little. In most games you can achieve big performance boosts if you only turn one or two settings off or lower them by 1 notch, while still keeping the visuals at very high level - in some cases, you won't be able to tell the difference.

As for your questions:

1) yes, but only by several fps, maybe 2-3, certainly not by 20-30.
2) Probably. You can try to lower antialiasing, this is usually the most taxing setting for GPU. For CPU, the most taxing ones are view distance and environmental detail.
3) Yes, but only slightly. Unfortunately, your CPU is not overclockable, and the motherboard also does not support OC.
4) Possible, but you probably won't achieve much.
 
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Thanks for the response!

Is WoW a relatively low graphics intensive game for a card say compared to DOOM ? I looked at this article by PC Gamer before purchasing the card and other reviews that did FPS tests for top games with the card .

(http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9hwj8KaQuQ4FEK72Mir3kK-650-80.png) Is a comparison to the GTX 1060 that shows pretty much 50-60 fps for all games on 1080p, which I am using. Am I being bottle-necked somewhere else in my system? There are reviews that RX480 averaged 80FPS on 1080p on ultra and I have the RX 580 and I'm getting 27-30 FPS - I'm confused.

 
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There are many factors involved that can affect your framerates.

Ultra settings, even on WoW, are actually quite tasking. Try to tune them a little, even a single tweak can do wonders. Besides, each reviewer uses a specific set of settings, drivers, OS... heck, even the game version matters a lot. Not to mention the brand of the card, its clocks and so on.

Your CPU is more than enough, but maybe some background app is using it too much, even while idle.

Definitely monitor your CPU usage and temperature, both while idle at desktop and while ingame. Do the same with GPU. Then we can analyse further.

Which driver version are you using for your GPU, btw?

 
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herrwizo

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Just found this thread, you might find it interesting:

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20745605787

It seems that drivers are to blame, and that your best bet is to use DDU to fully uninstall your current drivers and then download and instal an older version, 16.5.2.

There are also numerous other suggestions that actually helped people, from playing with wattman settings to disabling bnet application, or giving the "high" priority to the game via task manager.

Worth checking out.
 
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