Question Cpu upgrade

[ELM2721]

Hello. So i have just noticed thaf my i5 7400 and 8gb of ram are causing extreme bottlenecks to my rtx 2060 and iam having alot od fps drops . So i started to look for a cpu ans ram upgrade .
Im thinking about an i7 8700 non k
2x8 hyperx 2666mhz gb of ram
And a brand new msi b360m motherboard
Is this a good upgrade and will i really get an fps increase after getting rid of the bottleneck?

 

[ELM2721]

If you are really running it at 60HZ, you shouldn't see any frame drops or bottlenecks, you have a much stronger CPU than mine and i don't get any problems.

Are you talking about my i5 7400??

 

[iMatty]

Yeah am talking about your i5.

 

[ELM2721]

Umm then why am i facing annoying fps drops with a 60hz monitor . Only 1 game works properly . All my drivers are up to date and my windows also!?
Could it really be the 8gb ram?

 

[iMatty]

8gb ram does effect alot if you ask me, i had 8GB before and i had such annoying problems, until i sold mine and bought a kit of 16gb DDR3.
Everything changed after that, multitasking and gaming became much easier and faster.

 

[boju]

the first question is it normal that the weak i5 7400 can really affect performance that much!!?

That has been answered in a few different ways already. Get more ram first then reassess.

Make sure there's not too much background running processes like chrome or discord. Want the cpu allocated as much resource as possible.

https://winaero.com/ can help by temporarily disable unnecessary processes.

If need discord, move the process to the last core using affinity in task manager.

Disable game bar dvr recording. This records your game play automatically and discards the file if nothing is done with it. Recording adds to cpu usage.

Four core cpus aren't really recommend anymore without doing tweaks or configure stuff to help cpu usage.

 

[ELM2721]

If the 16 gb ram will push to the 60 fps i should get with the rtx 2060 . Then i will get it today oe tommorow and see what hapoens. If the problems continue after tye ram upgrade i will send the pc to a techenian to check

 

[boju]

What kind of drive is Windows installed on? 8GB ram will cause virtual memory to grow in games today. Vram data flows in and out of system ram and by Windows taxing a chunk of ram you'd only be left with maybe 6GB. With vram passing through ram and whatever else related to games, can cause quite a bit of hdd/ssd activity which'll slow things down quite a bit and you get instances like the gpu having to wait.