What to upgrade (to go with GTX 1070)

[lukas.bay]

Hey there,

I've had a GTX 1070 for a while now, but feel like my PC is kind of underperforming with it. So the question is, what should I upgrade and what to. (Total budget ist about 500$ at the moment).

I currently have:
GTX 1070 8GB
Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz
ASRock B85 Anniversary
2x4GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600
256GB SSD + 2TB HDD

I use it for gaming on a 24" 144Hz monitor.

Thanks very much in advance!

 

[Ralston18]

First quantify the sense of "underperforming".

Use Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Performance Monitor to see if performance is not as it should or could be. Look at CPU, memory, network, disk drive(s) etc. Determine if there are any bottlenecks occurring or undo demand for some resource.

Perhaps just some background app or process dragging performance down. May be looking for some now non-existent shared drive or some minor app "phoning home". Or some backup trying to complete itself.

Or some indexing or other actions going on with respect to that 2 TB HDD.

Remove any unnecessary apps from start-up - especially if no longer being used or otherwise now unneeded.

Be sure all drivers are up-to-date.

Good chance that just some investigation and software tweaking will restore or improve performance.