PC not running as it should be = bad performance

[Wayfarer44]

Hello,

I built my PC about a year ago, specs:

I5 6500 3,2 GHz
MSI pc mate b150
MSI RX 480 8 gb
8 GB Kingston 2x 4 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz
SSD 250 GB, HDD 1 tera Seasonic S12II 620W
Windows 10 64 bit

I'm playing with 3 monitors, the main one is 144hz Freesync for gaming, other ones are 60 hz for just browsing a web and youtube/twitch.

The main games that I play are World of Warcraft and League of Legends. All I ever wanted this pc to do was to run these 2 games flawlessly. Mostly I can run WoW on 144 fps ultra smooth, but in raids, or main cities I get like 40-50 ish fps on the lowest graphics. That's just not acceptable for me and it's driving me nuts.

Same thing with league, i'm dropping frames with pc speccs that should not be having a problems.

Other big problem is when I'm trying to browse web or just watch youtube/twitch on my non gaming monitors I'm getting a ton of lag on these monitors, also it kind of lags my main gaming monitor when brosing or watching something on these monitors.

So the question is, what should I upgrade first to get rid off my problems?

What I tried:

- regularly cleaning my PC with Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner
- fresh Windows 10 install
- unninstaling my gpu drivers with DDU
- changing ingame settings, Vsync on off, different refresh rate


Should upgrading to 16 GB RAM from 8 help me?


Thanks for the read and help.

Cheers.

 

[Vic 40]

Tried MSI afterburner to see what is going on when having raids? Mean get it in screen and see if cpu or gpu usage is at 100%. Don't have WoW,but have read that raids are very taxing on the cpu so maybe there is a bottleneck. If cpu is at 100% and the gpu doesn't go there will you have your answer.If both the same of course.

 

[logainofhades]

WoW and AMD GPU's have never done very well together, sadly. I run 1440p ultra, with a GTX 980, but with view distance set to 7, shadows on low, v-sync off, and SSAO disabled. Granted my CPU is a 6700k @4.5ghz, though. You are doing quite a bit of multitasking, it seems, for just and i5. A drop in i7 upgrade wouldn't be a horrible idea. I would definitely bump up to 16gb ram.