Will upgrading my CPU in my setup increase my FPS

[itzjack]

So i have a 144hz monitor and recently have noticed that i am not hitting 144 fps and instead am getting around 100 in the games i play. The main game i play is Rocket League and want to make sure i can get a stable 144 fps when i play instead of the 90-100 that am currently getting. If i do need to upgrade I am currently looking to spend up to £200 on a new processor so please recommend any.

Setup:
GTX 1060 6GB
8GB Ram
1TB HD
I5 3330
asus p8h61-mx r2.0 (Motherboard)

 

[lperreault21]

mabey a little, I would wait for coffee lake and then choose

 

[PC Tailor]

The most you can really go for with that motherboard and likely get some tangible improvement would be an i7 3770. Asides that, I personally doubt you'd see much gain. But that will go beyond the £200 budget.

Next to that you'd be looking at upgrading to newer generation Intel / AMD, which requires a motherboard and RAM upgrade too. Going beyond the £200 mark.

 

[jeffreydanielbyers]

It's certainly possible, however you'd need an i5-3570K or i7-3770K likely so you can overclock to get a solid 144FPS.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-vs-core-i5-review-twelve-threads-vs-four/14

That's with a GTX1080, but the point is an i5-7600 can hit over 180FPS an i5-3570K should too.

Max FPS increase would be for example 4.5GHz/3.1GHz (max full load for both)... 1.45x so 145FPS average?

I guess you can't hit a solid 144FPS actually. The i5-7600 hits about 4GHz (full load) but it's newer architecture might be up to 20% higher IPC.

It's academic since I don't think you can find an i5-3570K for a good price anyway.


OTHER:
Why are you trying to hit a solid 144FPS?

Is 100FPS insufficient latency, or are you trying to enable VSYNC to prevent screen tearing?

If the latter, you can force on Adaptive VSync (Half Refresh) to synch to 72FPS instead. That will cap to 72FPS (VSYNC ON) and disable VSYNC if you can't maintain that (so screen tear below 72FPS but not added stuttering due to the synch mismatch of using VSYNC if you you can't hit that FPS).

Here's how:

1) start then exit the game
2) NCP-> manage 3d settings-> ... add game-> adaptive vsync (half refresh)-> save

Now you should tweak the game settings so you maintain 72FPS (the cap) at least 90% of the time. When it drops, again, you get screen tear so if you never see tears you can likely increase the game quality, but if tears are too often you can drop the quality (like 8xMSAA to 4xMSAA).