A little help please.

[joenoes]

Hello there.

I was given this PC to play some games on whilst i recover from a sports injurty (Mainly CSGO), I'm a complete novice when it comes to this so could somebody point me in the right direction to improve my FPS on this current system;

3.2 gig Intel Core i5-4460
RAM: 8GB (2X4GB)
Hard Drive 1: 120GB Corsair Force LS SSD
Hard Drive 2: 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001
GFX Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti.

Would a new GFX simply do it?

Ta.

 

[The Paladin]

in this order

1. new GTX 1050 Ti
2. Used I7-4770 or 4790 (K or not depends on motherboard)
3. Get 16GB Ram

 

[Chicano]

Your GPU is too weak for this processor. Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz with GeForce GTX 750 Ti (x1) will produce 25% (severe) bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck. For the Intel Core i5-4460 CPU the best compatible Graphics Card is the GeForce GTX GTX 770.

Other Graphics Cards that should work well with the Intel Core i5-4460 CPU


The GTX 1050 Ti is good.
Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz with GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (x1) will produce only 2% of bottleneck

 

[cryoburner]

As far as potential hardware upgrades go, only a graphics card upgrade might potentially be worthwhile.

The i5-4460 is still a rather good processor, and CSGO is not going to benefit from the extra threads of an i7. Likewise, CSGO doesn't need anywhere near 8GB of RAM, so increasing that further would do nothing.

What kind of performance are you getting? CSGO isn't particularly demanding, and even a 750 Ti should be able to average over 100fps at 1080p with high graphics settings in that game. If you are getting significantly less than that, make sure your monitor is plugged into a port on the graphics card, and not the motherboard, since otherwise the 750 Ti won't be getting utilized, and the game will be rendered on the much slower integrated graphics instead.

Edit: As for "bottlenecking" that is highly dependent on what game is being played, as well as the resolution and settings it is being played at, so any one-size-fits-all percentage listed in a chart is not very meaningful. If a game is very graphically demanding, or played at a high resolution, the graphics card will be limiting performance, otherwise the CPU will limit performance. CSGO is a game that is not very demanding on either the CPU or GPU, so unless you are playing at a very high resolution, like 1440p or 4K, a 750 Ti will most likely work quite well for it.

It's also worth pointing out that due to an industry-wide shortage, the prices of graphics cards have been way up the last couple months, in many cases close to double the price they were for much of last year, and it will likely take months for the prices to come back down.

 

[joenoes]

As far as potential hardware upgrades go, only a graphics card upgrade might potentially be worthwhile.

The i5-4460 is still a rather good processor, and CSGO is not going to benefit from the extra threads of an i7. Likewise, CSGO doesn't need anywhere near 8GB of RAM, so increasing that further would do nothing.

What kind of performance are you getting? CSGO isn't particularly demanding, and even a 750 Ti should be able to average over 100fps at 1080p with high graphics settings in that game. If you are getting significantly less than that, make sure your monitor is plugged into a port on the graphics card, and not the motherboard, since otherwise the 750 Ti won't be getting utilized, and the game will be rendered on the much slower integrated graphics instead.

Edit: As for "bottlenecking" that is highly dependent on what game is being played, as well as the resolution and settings it is being played at, so any one-size-fits-all percentage listed in a chart is not very meaningful. If a game is very graphically demanding, or played at a high resolution, the graphics card will be limiting performance, otherwise the CPU will limit performance. CSGO is a game that is not very demanding on either the CPU or GPU, so unless you are playing at a very high resolution, like 1440p or 4K, a 750 Ti will most likely work quite well for it.

It's also worth pointing out that due to an industry-wide shortage, the prices of graphics cards have been way up the last couple months, in many cases close to double the price they were for much of last year, and it will likely take months for the prices to come back down.

I'm getting between 100-200 FPS on most maps, the more demanding maps it does drop quite significantly. CSGO is playable on this current system with everything on low. I'm aiming to get a steady 200 fps so just wondering what to do really. thanks for the info you've already given.