is my Ram bottle-necking my performance

[simonz93]

I'm using an i7 6700 and an Evga 980Ti sc+, but surprisingly I can't get a stable 60FPS in most recent AAA games on 1080P. I haven't OC anything but considering I'm only using 1 HD monitor, never thought it was necessary. I thought the clock speed of my CPU (3.4GHZ) could have been the culprit but people told me that shouldn't be the case.

The one thing I'm not sure what I'm using is the Ram. I have a 16GB but I've no idea what they are other than their size. Could Ram cause serious bottle-necking issues?

If so, if I were to switch them, can I do so without having to worry about anything (like will it rest the system or anything like that)?

Thanks!

 

[bjsm]

Can you open up your case and have a look at what ram you have? or check in the bios what speed its set at. Also post all you pc specs please.

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

No, you should not have to upgrade, if you were to, you would probably want to reinstall Windows, technically you don't have to, but it's safer

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

You may see a small increase if you were to get faster ram, but like maybe 5fps or something

 

[marko55]

What model motherboard and exactly what is plugged in to your other PCIe slots? Also is your m.2 populated with and SSD?

 

[Tradesman1]

You can get your DRAM model # with the Free app CPU-Z - look at Part Number in the SPD tab and let us know - also look in the memory tab at tell us what frequency the DRAM is running at