[SOLVED] CPU upgrade options/bottleneck

[xxxb.dxxx]

Hi,

Im looking to upgrade my system and wondered what i should upgrade. my current set up is.

Ryzen 1500x
1070 ti
asus prime a320m-k m.2
16GB ram
750Watt PSU
SSD

My current setup works pretty fine but i wanted to ask you guys what my bottleneck would be.

im guessing its my CPU but by how much?

If I bought a new CPU, what would be the best option to go with?

Will it give me more FPS or would it be about the same?

Most of my tests (afterburner) seems to indicate that the CPU isnt being fully used on most of my games (Doom, Alan wake, Prey, etc)

The issue I have is most of the youtube videos of showing off a RTX 2070 vs 1070 ti only gives about 10+ FPS.

I dont really want to spend hundreds of pounds/dollars to get pretty much no increase in performance.

Side note: i dont know about you but i dont like games that stutter or have frame pacing issues.

To get all my games running at a smooth 60FP 16.5ms 100% the time, i run my games at about 80% of the GPU usage.

This allows for any spikes in action to be account for.

I know this is not ideal because that 20% isnt being used. but what i hate worse that bad graphics is a unstable frame rate.

Most of the "reviews" out there run the games with a huge amount of FPS difference. making it lag and what not.

So yeh, im looking to upgrade but if the best is what i have ATM, I dont mind waiting another year or so to see what the new consoles will be delivering and try to match that.

thanks in advance.

 

[Calvin7]

I'd recommend removing the no-frills low-end AMD A320 Chipset motherboard as #1 priority.

 

[xxxb.dxxx]

I'd recommend removing the no-frills low-end AMD A320 Chipset motherboard as #1 priority.

Does a motherboard really make that much difference?

and is so why?

 

[cryoburner]

Does a motherboard really make that much difference?

and is so why?

That would provide next to no difference in performance unless you were overclocking, so it's arguably not a priority to replace, in my opinion.

What monitor do you have? I assume you are gaming at 1080p? Does your monitor happen to support adaptive sync (like FreeSync)?

And what speed is the 16GB of RAM, and is it a dual-channel kit (2-sticks)?

If you find performance to be relatively fine, there probably isn't a whole lot of reason to upgrade yet. Tossing a 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen in there would make a difference in some games, and would probably be better in an increasing number of games in the future, but most will still get along rather well on a 4-core, 8-thread processor for the time being, and you probably wouldn't see significant performance gains in most titles. The vast majority of games should be able to manage 60fps at high settings on a 1070 Ti at 1080p, and a 1500X should also be able to handle those kinds of frame rates fairly well.

 

[xxxb.dxxx]

That would provide next to no difference in performance unless you were overclocking, so it's arguably not a priority to replace, in my opinion.

What monitor do you have? I assume you are gaming at 1080p? Does your monitor happen to support adaptive sync (like FreeSync)?

And what speed is the 16GB of RAM, and is it a dual-channel kit (2-sticks)?

If you find performance to be relatively fine, there probably isn't a whole lot of reason to upgrade yet. Tossing a 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen in there would make a difference in some games, and would probably be better in an increasing number of games in the future, but most will still get along rather well on a 4-core, 8-thread processor for the time being, and you probably wouldn't see significant performance gains in most titles. The vast majority of games should be able to manage 60fps at high settings on a 1070 Ti at 1080p, and a 1500X should also be able to handle those kinds of frame rates fairly well.

Thank you.

Thats what I was thinking. Ill probably wait until the new consoles have been out for a little while before upgrading.

I know that game development is usually determined by the console generation and having a PC is just a nice bump in performance. ( if you can afford it)

I had two trains of thought. Upgrade my CPU now to something like the 2700x and buy a RTX 2070 Super when they come down in price. The other is just wait till both GPU and CPU come down in price and get them both at the same time. hopefully giving me the bump im looking for in FPS and higher graphical settings.

my current settings on most games are
1440p - looks so much better than 1080p
60FPS - all the time
16.6ms - all the time.
any graphic settings to get the above (mostly low-mid on new games)

I usually try to run most of my games at 80% GPU to get that 16.6ms time 99% of the time.

FYI I recently played Control and had to game at 1080p on mostly low settings to get a stable FPS. I bumped up things like texture and any settings that didnt make much difference to the load.

my complete set up is:
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
RAM: 16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1330MHz
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME A320M-K (AM4)
Graphics: 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (NVIDIA)
Storage: 223GB SanDisk SDSSDA240G (SATA (SSD))
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA ) (no games installed)
Monitor: Hanns.g 27 inch 60hz 1440p (no free sync/gsync)
PSU: EVEA NEX750B 750 watt