Hello people of tom's hardware!
so as the title says, im having some problems in games.
my systems specs are:
CPU: Intel i5-4590 3.3GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte B85M-D2V
GPU: Palit GTX 1060 6G Dual
SSD: None
HDD: 1TB Drive
RAM: Transcend JM1600KLH-8G 1x8GB
PSU: FSP 650W
OS: Win 10 Pro 64bit
So there's a few problems in gaming, (which i'm not sure BTW are gpu related). First of all, I got the 1060 about a month ago and it performs okay but a bit disappointing. i upgraded from a R9 290, and barely see any difference in performance. in Unigine Heaven all maxed out DX11, got a score of 1600 non overclocked, which seems kinda bad.
*also i think worth noting, is that i tried to OC it with Afterburner, started raising just a tiny bit, then running a benchmark and after a minute everything started lagging like hell and i had to restart my PC (highest temp was around 76c)
Another issue im having, is stuttering. nothing too groundbreaking usually but in games like GTA V and Witcher 3, its very noticeable and occurs every few seconds. I tried capping FPS to 60 through RivaTuner and i think it helped but just a little bit. But in general, i never seem to get that smooth gaming experience that im looking for. I just dont know what could help - more ram? SSD? A better monitor? (im using a 21.5 inch 1920x1080 60Hz monitor), is anything in these specs a bottleneck? i just literally dont know what i can do to help it, since buying a new GPU didn't seem to work.
So yeah, sorry for long post, help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: Found out that one of the CPU cores reaches a 100% in certain games (overall CPU usage about 65%), Is that a bottleneck?
so as the title says, im having some problems in games.
my systems specs are:
CPU: Intel i5-4590 3.3GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte B85M-D2V
GPU: Palit GTX 1060 6G Dual
SSD: None
HDD: 1TB Drive
RAM: Transcend JM1600KLH-8G 1x8GB
PSU: FSP 650W
OS: Win 10 Pro 64bit
So there's a few problems in gaming, (which i'm not sure BTW are gpu related). First of all, I got the 1060 about a month ago and it performs okay but a bit disappointing. i upgraded from a R9 290, and barely see any difference in performance. in Unigine Heaven all maxed out DX11, got a score of 1600 non overclocked, which seems kinda bad.
*also i think worth noting, is that i tried to OC it with Afterburner, started raising just a tiny bit, then running a benchmark and after a minute everything started lagging like hell and i had to restart my PC (highest temp was around 76c)
Another issue im having, is stuttering. nothing too groundbreaking usually but in games like GTA V and Witcher 3, its very noticeable and occurs every few seconds. I tried capping FPS to 60 through RivaTuner and i think it helped but just a little bit. But in general, i never seem to get that smooth gaming experience that im looking for. I just dont know what could help - more ram? SSD? A better monitor? (im using a 21.5 inch 1920x1080 60Hz monitor), is anything in these specs a bottleneck? i just literally dont know what i can do to help it, since buying a new GPU didn't seem to work.
So yeah, sorry for long post, help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: Found out that one of the CPU cores reaches a 100% in certain games (overall CPU usage about 65%), Is that a bottleneck?