[SOLVED] Is it my Rig? Or the Game?

[hiro928]

hello, i'm somewhat knowlegable on PC hardware, but i still have a million things to learn when it comes to part comparisons

CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480
RAM: 24 GB DDR3
OS: Windows 64 bit 10 Home

some games I've been playing recently have been studdering and giving inconsistent FPS, games like Wolfenstien New Order, Assassins Creed Origins, Monster Hunter World, No Man's Sky are a couple, so i ask, are these games just not optimized properly? or is my hardware not up to snuff, seeing as i did build this machine around 4 years ago.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

If all of these games used to play fine before then it might be due to a graphics driver that has bugs. If you just updated your graphics driver, you might want to roll them back to a more stable version for your machine

 

[hiro928]

If all of these games used to play fine before then it might be due to a graphics driver that has bugs. If you just updated your graphics driver, you might want to roll them back to a more stable version for your machine

they all had inconsistent FPS when i bought them, so sadly i have nothing to compare to, which is why i wondered if my hardware is up to snuff? or is my gaming PC garbo

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Your processor is pretty old and really is not a gaming processor so I think you need a new CPU and motherboard and Ram

I would get an AM4 motherboard fast DDR 4, 2 sticks sold as a kit and a Ryzen 5 or 7

 

[hiro928]

Your processor is pretty old and really is not a gaming processor so I think you need a new CPU and motherboard and Ram

I would get an AM4 motherboard fast DDR 4, 2 sticks sold as a kit and a Ryzen 5 or 7

thatnks! that's mainly what i was asking about, which i kind of figured it was my processor holding me back, cause when i'd play Monster Hunter World, not only would i get the inconsistent FPS but according to Task Manager, MHW was using 65 - 70% of my processor just by itself, so i'll look into i new MB, AM4 and the Ryzen5 or 7, but for the sake of future, what do you look for in something being a "gaming" CPU? what about a GPU for that matter? just wanting to learn more at this point, also, how do i mark this as answered?