ways to boost fps?

corndogg0420

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Hello I just built a gaming rig and my specs are as follows

6600k i5 (stock)
gigabyte g1 gaming 5
16 gb ddr4 ram
sapphire radeon r9 390 (stock)
acer 1440p 144hz freesync
windows 10 upgrade

I am running gta V and ACS @ about 40 to 50 fps
is there a way to boost this without lowering the setting of the games? I am new to this and want overclocking my cpu/gpu to be a last resort unless that wont really help anyway lol

thanks in advance
 
Honestly, the only way your going to get free real-world performance boosts is overclocking. Yeah, you might get 1fps out of running a 'game app' that shuts down background apps and changes your system priorities, but you'd be lucky if you did - those sorts of tweaks only really help low spec and bloated systems. Im assuming your running the latest drivers as this is a new build, but if not, update them.

I cannot stress this enough though: Do not be scared of overclocking. Its 2016 now, not 2005. It is so simple that it is literally free performance for one minutes work! :)

Lucky for you, your CPU and motherboard were literally designed for overclocking. I also assume you have a third party CPU cooler seeing as the 6600k doesnt come with a stock one?
 


Because he's running at 1440p - its a lot more taxing that people seem to think!
 


sorry, i skipped that part,
 


shoot I hit the wrong button meant to reply and not resolve yet, I have a CRYORIG H7 Tower Cooler For AMD/Intel CPU's
it seems to do the trick. should I overclock my cpu and gpu or just cpu?
 


Yeah I dont think he realised you dont have a stock cooler..

There's no reason you shouldn't overclock both.

CPU:

- With a 6600k, it really as easy this: Go into your BIOS and find the Overclock page. Where it says clock multiplier, change it from its default value to 44. This will give you an clock speed of 4.4ghz; a nice 1ghz overclock that will not require any changes to voltage or base clock values. Simple. Play a few games and if all is fine, move on to the GPU.

GPU:

- Download any of the GPU tweak programs; MSI Afterburner, EVGA precision etc etc, and simply nudge up your base clock value by 50. Again, play a few games a for a while and if all is good, knock it up another 50. Repeat your tests, and if its fine, that 100mhz boost will give you a nice few fps in most games.

And there you are; a nice healthy increase in gaming performance, for free.
 


Great thanks for the info, last question, I have a evga 650w 80+ gold full modular psu, is that enough to overclock both?
 


what about my ram, its rated for 2400mhz but I believe its only at 2133, should I adjust this?
 


To adjust it, you need to enable the XMP memory profile in your BIOS which will unlock the higher speed for your RAM.

Whether you should or not, is up to you - to be honest, RAM speeds don't really make that much of difference in most real world applications. Yeah it can help boost some superficial benchmarks, but FPS in games? Nope.

So its up you, feel free as there's no reason not to, but there's not a lot of reason to do it either!

PS: Please don't forget to change the solution to this thread when youre happy!
 


thank you for all your help, how do you change the solution? oh and overclocking did not change my fps but as long as my games run well at 1440p, 50 fps does not lag at all :)
 
No problem :)

Overclocking not having an effect surprised me a little, but its worth noting that a lot of the time OCing doesnt make a difference to your highest FPS figures, but rather increases your lowest FPS figures - so where you used to drop to say, 41, will now only be 44 for example :)

You should just be able to pick a new answer as the solution as you did the first, but if not, no worries!