Question Looking for upgrade advice.

Nov 26, 2024
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Hey all, I'm currently running a Windows 10 gaming rig with:

an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @ 3.4Ghz

a B450 Pro Gaming Mobo by ASUS

32 GB of DDR4-2132 RAM (Dual-Channel, Frequency of 1600 MHz)

an Nvidia GeForce 3090 RTX

For the most part, I can get a consistent 100+ FPS on most games, but for higher-end ones, it tends to struggle a bit going on High/Ultra/Epic (My current resolution is 3440 x 1440), and I'd like to know what to upgrade to finally push through and consistently handle Ultra/Epic graphics while being able to, at the very least, handle 144 FPS; worst comes to worst, I can just go down on the resolution and sacrifice the ultrawide.

I know my graphics card is bottlenecked, and my suspicion as far as that goes is the motherboard/RAM combo, unless it's also the CPU. If possible, if my Mobo/RAM is the culprit on the bottleneck, I'd like to retain the same socket type on the CPU, but if anyone can give me more info/feedback/a better option altogether, I'd greatly appreciate it.
 

punkncat

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Every tip of the spear card does. Your system (IMO) is strong enough to try with the 5xxx flagship on release to see what improvement it brings to the desired performance. 4K puts a great deal of the load on the graphics card, so it would be the logical place to start.