Weird stuttering before and after gpu upgrade

[gosdawg]

i3-6100
EVGA gtx 1060 3gb SC
2x4 gb DDR4 2133 mhz
450 watt Rosewill 80+

Was using a RX 560 MSI aero... was experiencing stuttering (aside from the crap details i had to to suffer through) in games like Fortnite, Fallout, PubG, CoD, etc...
thought it was the card, wanted to upgrade anyway and got a evga 1060 3gb SC...
Hm, much higher FPS in all of the games... still stutter in Fortnite and Pubg, though pubg is more stable than it was, fortnite is still trashy...
When i switched out the GPUs, I also changed the PSU out as i thought that might have been the culprit from an EVGA 450watt White 80+...

GPU temps never go above 74C at 100% load with 65% fan speed set to auto... at manual 75% curve i sit at 68C at load...
CPU temps max at 68C under 100% load

Im playing PubG with competitive settings (everything low except AA and View distance at Ultra) 1080p
Fortnite is horrible regardless of settings though most stable is with everything turned low (which is a wtf to me...)
f04 and Cod issues were mitigated with the stronger card, no more stutters at Max setting 1080p...

I assume its not the GPU, as some of my more intensive titles were fixed, but fortnite wasnt... (i know pubg isnt optimized very well at all)
Used to use a gtx 960 2gb prior to the RX 560, with these same games with no issues whatsoever, so i assume its nots a vram issue... and if it was playing with settings should have fixed it on Fortnite, and im not using high enough texture detail on PubG for it too matter.
I assume its not the PSU as ive swapped them
I assume its not my drivers as i removed my old ones and did a fresh install of the nvidia drivers...


Im assuming its one of 3 things, though i would like to likely place to start...
1) CPU bottleneck, its time for a quad core...
2) I need more RAM (though i dont see how that would affect Frametimes)
3) Mabybe my hard drive is crap... its a 5400 rpm 500gb i repurposed from a laptop..... would that really cause inconsistent frame times...

I just dont know....

 

[dontlistentome]

Using MSI Afterburner to show CPU usage while you game will tell you a lot about how your i3 is doing in these games.

The GTX 960 is a better card than the RX 560 so I hope it ran the games better, something would be wrong if it didn't.

A 5400rmp hard drive, really? And you've bought at least two cards(560 and 1060) and one power supply with that drive sitting in your computer? Well, unless you're hitting the pagefile, that shouldn't be your problem. At Newegg, just to pick a random place, 120gb SSDs are around $30 now. Get one of those for your OS and stick Fortnite on it too. Then uae the 5400rpm drive for everything else.

I suspect your issue is the CPU. A quad core is the MINIMUM you should be using. Don't get a quad core(4 cores/4 threads) thinking you're set. You need a 4 core/8 thread or a 6 core/6 thread CPU to do better than just get by.

 

[gosdawg]

Yeah, I been meaning to upgrade the HDD, but it never really bothered me until recently...

Whats odd is now that youve mentioned hitting the pagefile, Im trying to rerun all the game withs MSI overlay on and i keep getting memory issues and force closes :s, which isnt something ive noticed before

I was hoping to avoid a rebuild into a ryzen 5, or getting an i7... one would be a pita buying and flipping, the other is expensive... i can find decent deals on i5 6500s and 7500s in my area, but not i7s :/

 

[boju]

I 2nd hdd.

Posting this thread as it relates.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3770028/built-short-freezes-higher-settings.html

 

[gosdawg]

Alright. I will be changing the HDD first... will update in a few days after i get it(or them, either a SSD and HDD, a larger HDD, or the original suggestion of the SSD with my current)

 

[gosdawg]

Update...
SSD installed. Fresh installed win10, installed fortnite on the SSD.
Will be installing the 1tb today(gave away my spare sata awhile ago) and will be testing PubG downloaded to the hdd.
Fortnite was no problem max settings.
So far the solution was storage related.
Will update tonight on pubg.