Question whether to upgrade now or later ?

[BloodDevil0]

so guys Hi i have been having a few issue lately with frame drops while recording gaming content with OBS, games like Horizon zero dawn , and Ghostwire tokyo to name a couple, like 30 to 40 FPS drops. now the games run perfect when i've not got OBS open, i only have 2 plugins on OBS and they are full up to date.

all drivers are up to date, all gaming done at 1080P also

now i just could be i need to refresh install for OBS and or GPU drivers, or maybe refresh the system it has been a couple of years since i reinstalled windows and i will do these things first before i think about upgrading anything.

but im wondering will i be ok getting a RTX 4080 with a I9 10900K will i have much of a bottleneck doing this

or do you guys think ill be better of waiting and getting an entirely new system when the 50 series GPU drops and save my money and get more

Current system . . .

CPU: I9 10900K
Motherbaord: MSI Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi
GPU: MSI RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIO
RAM: HyperX Predator 64gb 3000MHZ ( tho it is clocked at 1200mhz default i never turned on XMP
PSU: 850W corsair

 

[geofelt]

You really need to first figure out why OBS is impacting you so.
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I think it will be related to the cpu and not the gpu.
First step is to implement XMP and verify that you are running in dual channel mode.
I9-10900K is a very capable processor.
Verify that you are running all of the 20 threads .
What is your cpu cooler? Is there any chance it is throttling with OBS active?
Is your motherboard bios current? Some updates address performance issues.
Do not flash unless an update seems relevant.

 

[BloodDevil0]

You really need to first figure out why OBS is impacting you so.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think it will be related to the cpu and not the gpu.
First step is to implement XMP and verify that you are running in dual channel mode.
I9-10900K is a very capable processor.
Verify that you are running all of the 20 threads .
What is your cpu cooler? Is there any chance it is throttling with OBS active?
Is your motherboard bios current? Some updates address performance issues.
Do not flash unless an update seems relevant.

no no temps are great im running an NZXT X72 temps are normally 50C to 60C while gaming and recording same on GPU.

how would i find out if all 20 threads are working correctly ?

 

[geofelt]

What might have changed since all was well?

Start task manager and select performance tab.
Right click on the cpu graph and select to display logical processors.
You will see how busy each thread is.

Run hwmonitor while under load.
It will give current, minimum and max readings of each core clock or temperature.
If you see any temp max of 100c. in red, it means that core throttled .
That is not necessarily all bad.

 

[BloodDevil0]

so it turns out ive not updated the Bios in some time good chance i havent updated it due to i dont want Windows 11 and this bios dont support it, and my ram is actually set to 2400, windows said 1200 for some reason maybe just cause its not under load

current Bios -E7C79IMS.120, Build date 07/22/2020

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-Z490-GAMING-EDGE-WIFI/support latest Bios's

yeah all Threads are working

 

[BloodDevil0]

so i rendered a small vid put the CPU under laod and max temp was 76c on 2 core's so i dont think it is throttling, i will do a recording later with OBS, got my daughter on my own atm so, rather do a recording test in a realistic setting test rather then just hit record

 

[BloodDevil0]

seems like OBS was the issue here not sur as to what exactly but i did completely fresh install and tried to record again and it "seems" to fixed the issue, more tests are needed

 

[BloodDevil0]

What might have changed since all was well?

Start task manager and select performance tab.
Right click on the cpu graph and select to display logical processors.
You will see how busy each thread is.

Run hwmonitor while under load.
It will give current, minimum and max readings of each core clock or temperature.
If you see any temp max of 100c. in red, it means that core throttled .
That is not necessarily all bad.

so thanks for the help i appreciate it