Something is bottlenecking my pc and I can't tell if its my ram or cpu.

[Aidan Hughes]

My pc has a i5 6400 paired with a b250 bazooka and 8gb of 2800mhz (although it only runs at like 2133mhz) trident z ram. My rig is about 2 years old and I've been experiencing for about 1.5 of those years frame drops and freezes when playing games to the point I have to close all windows except the game and in some circumstances it still happens. I've always assumed it's my cpu that is the problem, as I've opened cpu-z while gaming and seen my cpu at 100% but now I'm starting to wonder wether my 8gbs of ram is my problem. I have no clue how to find out what the problem is and was wondering if anyone could help me to find out. Is there any sorts of benchmarks or software that will help me to see?

 

[ss202sl]

What GPU?

 

[Aidan Hughes]

What GPU?

It's a gtx 1060 msi gaming x. I run all my games on the lowest settings possible for maxium fps too, so my gpu is definitely not the problem.

 

[Serinox]

It's cpu bottlenecking. The best cpu you could go for would be the 7700k. Also 6700(k) or 7700 are viable. You might need to update your bios for the 7th series cpu's.

 

[Aidan Hughes]

It's cpu bottlenecking. The best cpu you could go for would be the 7700k. Also 6700(k) or 7700 are viable. You might need to update your bios for the 7th series cpu's.

How can you be sure? The 6400 should be easily able to profrom even now.

 

[Serinox]

Well that cpu has a low boost and you want high refresh rates. Also you wrote that it hits 100% load. Every time your cpu is busy your gpu will have to wait, and that's the moment the framedrops are occurring.

 

[Aidan Hughes]

Well that cpu has a low boost and you want high refresh rates. Also you wrote that it hits 100% load. Every time your cpu is busy your gpu will have to wait, and that's the moment the framedrops are occurring.

I asked someone else the same question and they said just because its hitting a 100% load doesn't mean its bottlenecking the pc, which makes sense. Also why would clock frequencies have anything to do with it?

 

[Serinox]

Well if your "expert" is telling you this...