What should I do?

[Erat999]

I have an I7 920, 4 cores, 8 threads at 2.67 ghz. You probably starts to see the real problem here. I think that the 2.67 isn't enough for modern games. Sure I can go in the wilderness in Wither 3 and get 60+ fps on ultra with my MSI 970, but when I am in a busy town, my graphics card doesn't save me. In the worstest of the worst cases, I get sub 35 fps. So, I can either get an water cooling system and overclock my I7, or get a new motherboard (since my DX58SO dosen't support new CPUs) and a i5 4690 (I have a limited budget). There are small problem on the cost side with the overclocking plan, since it is a first generation I7, so the electricity bill is high enough, with that overclocking it would increase. So yeah, opinions?

Sorry for speeling mistakes

 

[The Paladin]

Erat999,

in first part I would like to address your question of new CPU, in your case upgrading means getting a new motherboard and possibly ram as well. upgrading to a used 4th gen is an option, to which you will quickly come to realize because of the market, the cost of a 4th gen cpu, motherboard and ram, equals buying a 6th gen new CPU, Motherboard and ram, it all about economics at this point.

but there is light in the tunnel.
considering possible issues; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Recommended Requirements
CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
Video Card: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290

I would ask how much RAM does your system, have, as your MSI 970 unless its overheating (speak about that later, should handle this game just fine.)

Can you get HWINFO program from web, and run HWINFO in the background, then run game for 30 mins normally go in the wild go in the areas it makes your FPS go low. then quit game and look for USAGE and Temps, I am trying to see if your CPU was pegged at 100% usage and how is the video card usage is ? also see the temperatures of the CPU and GPU (max reading) because either being to warm will make them throttle and rob you of graphics FPS.

also do you know what motherboard you are using? maybe the option is to upgrade as far as possible the cpu on this board, if economically making sense, I could see an I7-950 or high could be a improvement, and depending on motherboard, we could consider possibly overclocking your I7-920 CPU to 4.GHZ

waiting for you to report news.

 

[kawininjazx]

I had an i7 920 running at 3.4Ghz pretty easily, just make sure your memory speeds come out right. That should give you a nice, free boost.

 

[Erat999]

Erat999,

in first part I would like to address your question of new CPU, in your case upgrading means getting a new motherboard and possibly ram as well. upgrading to a used 4th gen is an option, to which you will quickly come to realize because of the market, the cost of a 4th gen cpu, motherboard and ram, equals buying a 6th gen new CPU, Motherboard and ram, it all about economics at this point.

but there is light in the tunnel.
considering possible issues; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Recommended Requirements
CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
Video Card: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290

I would ask how much RAM does your system, have, as your MSI 970 unless its overheating (speak about that later, should handle this game just fine.)

Can you get HWINFO program from web, and run HWINFO in the background, then run game for 30 mins normally go in the wild go in the areas it makes your FPS go low. then quit game and look for USAGE and Temps, I am trying to see if your CPU was pegged at 100% usage and how is the video card usage is ? also see the temperatures of the CPU and GPU (max reading) because either being to warm will make them throttle and rob you of graphics FPS.

also do you know what motherboard you are using? maybe the option is to upgrade as far as possible the cpu on this board, if economically making sense, I could see an I7-950 or high could be a improvement, and depending on motherboard, we could consider possibly overclocking your I7-920 CPU to 4.GHZ

waiting for you to report news.

I have 10gb of ram (1x4gb and 3x2gb ddr3) and the motheboard is the DX58SO. Also do you think you could add me on skype or steam for us to talk more?

 

[The Paladin]

Sorry I don't use Skype.

as for your motherboard, the DX58SO can handle up to 16MB of ram DDR3 you have 10GB but your configuration of the ram itself is not optimal
what I mean by that is for example you have 4 slots for ram, each PAIR work as a unit or not.
so your 2x2gb of ram actually work in dual channel ram speed. but since your 1x4gb and 1x2gb are not the same size they will only work as single channel ram. this last part means when the system accesses the first 2x2gb in dual channel the information will work twice as fast as when your access to the other two single channel ram are access and is capable of causing pauses or stutter in heavy gaming situation, especially true when one stick of ram is a different size then the other in your case it being a 1x4gb and 1x2gb stick on the paired slots .

my first recommendation would be to or find a 1x2gb or 1x4gb to match the unmatched pair to make them become dual channel
preferable you want same size all the way across the four slots, in this case you could get away with a 1x4gb of same speed as the one you currently have on your pc to make it work more efficiently.

Secondly the DX58SO can handle according to Intel compatibility listing at http://processormatch.intel.com/Processors/CompatibleProcessors?componentName=dx58so either I7-940,950,960,970,980 even 980x and 990x are any of these a big upgrade is the question.

lets compare your I7-920 to a I7-980 for example; as you see below when you compare the CPU the 980 is almost twice as powerful as the 920 is.
which is very good considering they are not expensive to acquire on ebay they cost about 120-175$

so for 160-200$ you could get a really more "snappy" system, and not have to change over everything in your system, CPU and Ram being straight drop into your motherboard.

have you installed HWinfo or Speccy to see how your temperatures are while your gaming ?

 

[Erat999]

Sorry I don't use Skype.

as for your motherboard, the DX58SO can handle up to 16MB of ram DDR3 you have 10GB but your configuration of the ram itself is not optimal
what I mean by that is for example you have 4 slots for ram, each PAIR work as a unit or not.
so your 2x2gb of ram actually work in dual channel ram speed. but since your 1x4gb and 1x2gb are not the same size they will only work as single channel ram. this last part means when the system accesses the first 2x2gb in dual channel the information will work twice as fast as when your access to the other two single channel ram are access and is capable of causing pauses or stutter in heavy gaming situation, especially true when one stick of ram is a different size then the other in your case it being a 1x4gb and 1x2gb stick on the paired slots .

my first recommendation would be to or find a 1x2gb or 1x4gb to match the unmatched pair to make them become dual channel
preferable you want same size all the way across the four slots, in this case you could get away with a 1x4gb of same speed as the one you currently have on your pc to make it work more efficiently.

Secondly the DX58SO can handle according to Intel compatibility listing at http://processormatch.intel.com/Processors/CompatibleProcessors?componentName=dx58so either I7-940,950,960,970,980 even 980x and 990x are any of these a big upgrade is the question.

lets compare your I7-920 to a I7-980 for example; as you see below when you compare the CPU the 980 is almost twice as powerful as the 920 is.
which is very good considering they are not expensive to acquire on ebay they cost about 120-175$

so for 160-200$ you could get a really more "snappy" system, and not have to change over everything in your system, CPU and Ram being straight drop into your motherboard.

have you installed HWinfo or Speccy to see how your temperatures are while your gaming ?

Yes, my cpu reaches stays at 70-75 degrees celsius when playing (40-50 while only having chrome opened) and the gpu around 40-50 and very very rarely 60 degrees celsius with a fan speed of 70 in msi afterburner. Also is that fan facing the wrong direction? Shouldn't it be facing the cpu? I may sound dumb because I sincerely don't know. http://imgur.com/a/os4uU

 

[The Paladin]

that fan that is it pulling or pushing air thru those vents matters little in this case the cpu uses tubes of copper to bring heat to the fins, and the fan cools the fins. My vote would be I7-980, and nvidia GTX 750ti

 

[Erat999]

that fan that is it pulling or pushing air thru those vents matters little in this case the cpu uses tubes of copper to bring heat to the fins, and the fan cools the fins. My vote would be I7-980, and nvidia GTX 750ti

Ok, thanks for your sugestions mate, I just found a i7 980x to buy and I will see about either replacing that 4gb stick with a 2gb ones, or replace all the 2gb ones with 4gb. You have been very helpful, thanks ^^.

 

[The Paladin]

your most welcomed