Gaming, CPU or Ram?

[jerry_17]

I have a GeForce GTX 970, Intel Core i5 4690 CPU 3.50GHz, 8GB ram and every time I play Black Ops 3 after every 1 or 2 games I keep on lagging, I don't know what's wrong with it. Can someone tell me what's wrong with it? Is there something wrong with my CPU?

 

[Dragos Manea]

Check your HDD, your hdd may have bad sectors, i cant see any reason to lag except drivers were not installed

 

[azaran]

Have you done a ping test to see if you're dropping packets?

 

[Aladdad]

Yes its probably your ram, i played the BO3 Beta with 8GB of ram i my self have an i5 4690k and its overclocked to 4.2Ghz. i realized that with BO3 Running my Ram would fill up and game become unplayable so i upgraded my ram to 16GB and when playing BO3 now my ram usually has like 6-7GB left and stutters are no longer occurring.

I'm pretty sure games now are going to require a minimum of 8GB of ram now.. and that assuming your only running the game alone with nothing on the background.

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

The first thing you should do is ascertain where the problem lies. Second guessing may result in you spending money when you don't need to.

Have Task Manager running before you launch into a game and when the lag occurs Alt+Tab back into Windows and check the CPU and RAM usage. If they're running close to, or at 100% usage, then you have a bottleneck.

I agree that a lack of RAM is the most likely cause, but check first.