[SOLVED] looking to possibly upgrade my PC

Jan 23, 2019
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I've been experiencing horrible frames in a lot of games currently and was wondering if upgrading my graphics card would help. My current specs for my pc are as follows

Cpu: i5-4690k
Motherboard: MSI Z97S Sli Krait edition
Ram: 16gb ddr3-1866 kingston hyperx fury
Gpu: geforce gtx 970

I was thinking about possibly upgrading my graphics card to a gtx 1070 or 1080 but I was worried about possibly bottlenecking.

Ps I mainly play csgo right now but I don't experience any fps problems on that game, I average around 100 fps. I mainly get low fps in games like fortnite or rainbow six siege and also call of duty black ops 4.
 
Looks like a good machine. 3rd gen i5 is the minimum, GTX 770 is the recommended requirement, not minimum. Should be running fortnite just fine. Rainbow 6 siege is even less. CoD Black Ops 4 you need a i7 4770k to get above 100 fps but your card is fine. But I didn't have any trouble reaching 100 fps using a i7 3770k with an Nvidia GTX 970 in CoD Advance Warfare so I think your machine could handle it.
What do you do with this machine, just games, daily cruiser, work station graphics?
What's running in the background? Has this machine ever been defragged or run Disk Cleanup? Scan for virus/spyware/malware? Run sfc/scannow or Error Checker? Always start with what you can do/check first before laying down coin for the first piece of new hardware.
Lol. Worked on a machine once that had three anti-virus programs, two active sypware scanners. Sure you can have all that stuff but never have more than one or two which are compatible running at the same time. They become resource hogs. Can really slow a game down.
Have you tried reducing the graphics from 'ultra' to 'high'?
Is there plenty of HDD space? It's not packed to the gills to capacity. It's good to leave about 20% of total HDD space.
Most of this stuff deals with start up but it has an effect on games.
Are all your drivers updated? Bios and chipset? GPU driver. Have you ever put a mild overclock on your cpu, ram and gpu? It's an older rig. Clocking might give it a few years at top end.
Here's the harder stuff.
Check Windows event viewer logs for critical and warning errors. It's in Computer Management> System tools > Event viewer> Windows logs> Applications> create a custom view (right hand column check boxes)> error, critical and warning. It's tricky and time consuming but it gets failed parts of Windows to respond. I usually refer myself to David Pogue Books like Window 7 or 10 'The missing manual' when I'm looking for something. His books adds a little simplicity to navigate Windows.
If you updated your video card to a 1070.. . eh, You may be held back a little by the cpu but I think you'd be O.K.
Hope this helps.