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Apologies if this is in the wrong area but was hoping to get away with just a GPU upgrade but honestly not sure. Feel free to move if better suited elsewhere.
I've got a GeForce GTX 970, i7-4770k CPU @ 3.5GHz with 32GB Memory. Was playing Battlefield 2042 Open Beta earlier and frames were awful, dropped everything to low, running off an SSD, turned off most of the graphic options in game and was marginally better but not great. I know that the 970 is an old card but given that it still stands up to fairly modern fps games, I felt like it could handle BF better than it did. Occasionally, I did see the CPU top out at 100% then come back down and stayed fairly high throughout.
Is this likely a bigger issue with the GPU, CPU bottlenecking or both ? Open to advice, recommendations and roasting.
I've got a GeForce GTX 970, i7-4770k CPU @ 3.5GHz with 32GB Memory. Was playing Battlefield 2042 Open Beta earlier and frames were awful, dropped everything to low, running off an SSD, turned off most of the graphic options in game and was marginally better but not great. I know that the 970 is an old card but given that it still stands up to fairly modern fps games, I felt like it could handle BF better than it did. Occasionally, I did see the CPU top out at 100% then come back down and stayed fairly high throughout.
Is this likely a bigger issue with the GPU, CPU bottlenecking or both ? Open to advice, recommendations and roasting.
I guess short term option is grab it on another platform then as I don't think I can justify that expense to get back up to par at the minute for it, was quietly hoping it would be one or the other haha.