Question Advice on my current build's shortcomings ?

[stoneferry]

I never was very cutting edge when it came to gaming builds, probably because I always managed to satisfy most intensive graphics games on the console.

But since Dune Awakening was released I have had come to the realization by build is trash.... Or is it? The game runs awfully, and yet, there are lots of benchmarking youtubers out there with a GeForce GTX 1650 which run this game perfectly smoothly.

I don't want to throw the computer in the bin, I'd rather upgrade the weakest link. Can anyone spot the component which maybe letting the side down with this build?

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Intel Core i7 9700 @ 3.00GHz 66 °C
Coffee Lake 14nm Technology
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1200MHz (17-17-17-39)
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H310M S2H 2.0 (U3E1) 17 °C
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (MSI) 46 °C
PSU LC Power LC600H-12 V2.31 ATX Power Supply 600 Watt
The Case was the cheapest I could find, no idea what make it is

Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102 (SATA ) 41 °C
111GB Western Digital WDC WDS120G2G0A-00JH30 (SATA (SSD)) 43 °C

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Intel Core i7 9700 @ 3.00GHz 66 °C
Coffee Lake 14nm Technology
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1200MHz (17-17-17-39)
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H310M S2H 2.0 (U3E1) 17 °C
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (MSI) 46 °C
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102 (SATA ) 41 °C
111GB Western Digital WDC WDS120G2G0A-00JH30 (SATA (SSD)) 43 °C
You should include the make, model and age of your PSU as well as the case.

I have had come to the realization by build is trash
Yes, your build should've been built right from the get go. As it stands, your build isn't balanced. In fact, if you did try and rectify the mistakes on your build, you're stepping into rebuilding the entire system from the ground up albeit you will be spending on yesteryears tech if you did try and rectify your current system.
^
I don't want to throw the computer in the bin, I'd rather upgrade the weakest link. Can anyone spot the component which maybe letting the side down with this build?
If I were to build you a system with that i7-9700, I'd have gone with a Z370 chipset, paired it with a tight latencied dual channel DDR4-3200MHz ram to get the most out of your build, paired that with a GTX1660 Super.

You might want to see if you can reinstall your GPU drivers. Use DDU in Safe Mode, then remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

 

[stoneferry]

Thanks, I edited in the PSU which is a PSU LC Power LC600H-12 V2.31 ATX Power Supply 600 Watt
The case, I have no idea what it is, some budget case I picked up.

So you think motherboard is potentially the weakest link here? Is there a motherboard which allows me upscaling options on the CPU and GPU in the future you can think of with fits the current GPU, CPU and RAM hardware?

As for drivers, owing to the instability of NVidia's software I done lots of clean driver re-installed and tried both game-ready drivers and all available variants. Specific GPU settings in-game and in NVidia does make a difference in the Dune game between completely unplayable and barely playable.

 

[LOGAN54321]

Just because somebody posts a video of game running with some weak GPU, doesn't mean it happened "out of the box" like that. Even though i am not a gamer, even i know that some people do tweaks, apply software mods and so forth to a game. And even without doing some of this stuff...just by lowering the resolution and various game settings, can have a tremendous effect on game playability! Not to mention that they may be using a more powerful card, but tricking the software to show some weaker card model.
So i think for starters, either reconfigure the game, or get a more powerful GPU. And then (as they say) "go from there".
(And not to seem like belittling the very good advice about reinstalling drivers of course! Sometimes OS "fresh installation" could help too. Only as experiment and understanding the risks...one of those lite/gaming versions can be tested with. But justshort term as a test that there might be some tweaks to be done to the regular OS installation. If you do that, do it at your own risk! )

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

There are a number of things going on.

Very slow ram.
Too weak a GPU for this game.
Your PSU is a disaster waiting to happen.

Recommend specs for smooth gaming:

Dune: Awakening Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit or newer
• CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
• RAM: 16 GB
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070 (8 GB) / AMD 6700XT (12 GB)
• DirectX Version: 12
• Storage: 75 GB (SSD required)
• Network: Broadband internet connection

Your PC is too slow for this.

Although your CPU is okay, ideally you need to get a new mobo, ram, CPU, GPU and PSU.