I remember asking this forum on advice and components on building my first PC. That was seven years ago. About the time the first gen i5's came out. That PC died a long time ago and I moved on to bigger and better things.
I recently decided to refurbish that PC and found out that there was something wrong with the RAM slots on the motherboard. I got a new motherboard. E-sonic I think was the brand. It was the only one still available I could find locally with the H55 chipset. A new SSD for the OS, new RAM, and a few hours later I got it to boot up. I installed the GPU drivers and started up DOTA 2.
Here are the specs:
Processor : i5 760
GPU : HD 7770
RAM : 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz
PSU : Zebronics 500 W... That's bad I know
Case : Coolermaster something....
I expected DOTA 2 to give me a solid 60 FPS with decent settings at 1600 x 900 resolution. But I cant seem to go beyond 45 - 50 FPS no matter how low I turn down the settings. Then I noticed that even dialing down the resolution didn't increase my framerate.
Then I noticed the CPU utilization at 100% when the game was on. I saw the i5 760 handling much better GPUs and more demanding games without any issue.
Is my CPU being a bottleneck ? Or is there something else causing my bad frame rate ?
I recently decided to refurbish that PC and found out that there was something wrong with the RAM slots on the motherboard. I got a new motherboard. E-sonic I think was the brand. It was the only one still available I could find locally with the H55 chipset. A new SSD for the OS, new RAM, and a few hours later I got it to boot up. I installed the GPU drivers and started up DOTA 2.
Here are the specs:
Processor : i5 760
GPU : HD 7770
RAM : 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz
PSU : Zebronics 500 W... That's bad I know
Case : Coolermaster something....
I expected DOTA 2 to give me a solid 60 FPS with decent settings at 1600 x 900 resolution. But I cant seem to go beyond 45 - 50 FPS no matter how low I turn down the settings. Then I noticed that even dialing down the resolution didn't increase my framerate.
Then I noticed the CPU utilization at 100% when the game was on. I saw the i5 760 handling much better GPUs and more demanding games without any issue.
Is my CPU being a bottleneck ? Or is there something else causing my bad frame rate ?
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