So to start off here is our rig:
OS: Win 7 ULTI 64 bit
MB: M5A97 LE r2.0
CPU: FX6300 (OC'd to 4.4 ghz stable)
RAM: 16 GB (4x4) Corsair Vengeance D3 PC-1600 9-9-9-24
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 270X 4GB
HDD: ADATA SP900 128 GB SSD
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Asking this question mainly for Skyrim as have found that with mods, Skyrim is still a very demanding game.
So without any mods can play with all settings maxed and obtain something like 50-60 FPS (this seems very low considering the specs of the system and how others on their test scores get 120+ easily on a similar rig), modded as it is now with about 25 or so 2k texture mods and ENB the FPS drops down to ~30 at highest and 2 at lowest. Settings have also been dropped from 1920*1080 to 1680*1050, AA from 16x to 8x, etc
Been monitoring the game on process explorer and AMD resource monitor to see where the resource bottleneck is and so far, cannot see anything of interest. HDD seems to be a bottleneck during loading as at times loading can take anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute and is the cause of major stuttering up to 2 minutes after loading. As far as other resources go however, don't see what's going on. The game never uses more than 3-4 cores, and even those 3-4 cores are never maxed - the usage is around 50% on each at peak load. The GPU is fully used up at times when entering more texture heavy areas for roughly 20-30 seconds before usage drops down to below 50%. There are times however where the GPU caps out for minutes on end without any apparent reason as to why.
In case this might be asked, the rig runs rather cool, about 28 degrees Celsius on idle and 52 on P95 blend after 24 hours, so it's unlikely to be overheating either.
Have about 500 bucks in the budget, was thinking maybe to get a 290x/970gtx. Another option that's possible would be to swap out the processor/MB for an i7 4790k but again not sure where the problem is currently. Which would see a larger performance boost?
Thank you for any answers anyone may be able to provide.
Cheers,
Z
OS: Win 7 ULTI 64 bit
MB: M5A97 LE r2.0
CPU: FX6300 (OC'd to 4.4 ghz stable)
RAM: 16 GB (4x4) Corsair Vengeance D3 PC-1600 9-9-9-24
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 270X 4GB
HDD: ADATA SP900 128 GB SSD
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Asking this question mainly for Skyrim as have found that with mods, Skyrim is still a very demanding game.
So without any mods can play with all settings maxed and obtain something like 50-60 FPS (this seems very low considering the specs of the system and how others on their test scores get 120+ easily on a similar rig), modded as it is now with about 25 or so 2k texture mods and ENB the FPS drops down to ~30 at highest and 2 at lowest. Settings have also been dropped from 1920*1080 to 1680*1050, AA from 16x to 8x, etc
Been monitoring the game on process explorer and AMD resource monitor to see where the resource bottleneck is and so far, cannot see anything of interest. HDD seems to be a bottleneck during loading as at times loading can take anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute and is the cause of major stuttering up to 2 minutes after loading. As far as other resources go however, don't see what's going on. The game never uses more than 3-4 cores, and even those 3-4 cores are never maxed - the usage is around 50% on each at peak load. The GPU is fully used up at times when entering more texture heavy areas for roughly 20-30 seconds before usage drops down to below 50%. There are times however where the GPU caps out for minutes on end without any apparent reason as to why.
In case this might be asked, the rig runs rather cool, about 28 degrees Celsius on idle and 52 on P95 blend after 24 hours, so it's unlikely to be overheating either.
Have about 500 bucks in the budget, was thinking maybe to get a 290x/970gtx. Another option that's possible would be to swap out the processor/MB for an i7 4790k but again not sure where the problem is currently. Which would see a larger performance boost?
Thank you for any answers anyone may be able to provide.
Cheers,
Z
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