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Resolution and minimum framerates

elrasho

elrasho

elrasho

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So I accidently broke my monitor and went and bought a huge Acer Z35P monster. I've gone from 2560 x 1440 to 3440 x 1440.

Ive noticed that my minimum framerates in games has now gone to the sub 60fps which I don't like. I have g sync enabled but it still annoys me. There are even times when I can kind of see it and feel it in game.

My question is will a CPU upgrade to a 5800X help with this or is it purely GPU bound?
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Check your usage and see for yourself whether you're CPU or GPU bound. Have you used MSI afterburner before? It can show you in great detail what your CPU, RAM, GPU is doing during gameplay.

You'll learn far more than if somebody just told you the answer.
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Both CPU and GPU are pretty much at 100%. GPU drops everyone and then though
 
tyler_jrb said:
Back the settings off a bit. Usually ultra-high-medium on a lot of settings makes little difference visually for fairly big fps impact. 1080Ti should do 3440x1440 above 60fps from experience. Think mine had little issue running 3440x1440 100hz on the likes of bfv.

Obviously quite recent games RDR2, Cyberpunk are a little more demanding.
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Yes I'll play around. Geforce experience said to have ambient occlusion at Ultra in COD Cold War!? I set it to High and instantly got average 80 fps. What other settings affect fps the most?
 
Messsed about the graphics settings in COD Cold War. Put everything to medium and instantly noticed the game run buttery smoooth at 90 FPS. Set Texture and Model to High and sits at 85ish FPS now.... much better than before :) I do miss playing at High/Ultra at 1440p on my old monitor though, medium does look quite a bit worse than what I used to play at but the trade off is this HUGE curved monitor
 
Had a look at some benchmarks for the 3070 Ti and its around 30% faster than the 1080Ti. I could sell my 1080 Ti and recoup some of the inflated cost of that 3070 Ti
 
Thanks for that, it explains why games don't look at "smooth" on this new monitor compared to the Dell 27" GSYNC I had. That's because games were running a well over 120FPS but now dip to as low as 60 at times :/

I'm tempted to get a 3090 and be done with it. Will last me at least 5 years for sure so it will pay for itself over time.

What I don't understand is benchmarks like this 5800X CPU review:

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Look at the different in FPS from the CPUs... my 4790K is really old so would be low on that chart right? So surely if I upgraded the CPU to a 5800X I'd get aorund a 25 FPS increase in games?
 
RipGroove said:
Honestly it's hard to tell unless you try it. You are in a tricky situation, you need a better GPU to drive that monitor for sure but a better GPU wouldn't be a great pairing with your current CPU. I was in the same position recently (although not to the same extent), I needed a better GPU but knew my CPU (7700k) wouldn't be the best pairing for a top end 30xx series GPU so I just bit the bullet in the end and upgraded both. I did however pair the 3090 with the 7700k just for fun first so I could directly compare the following (albeit only in 3DMark):

7700k + 1080ti
7700k + 3090
11900k + 3090

I'll post those comparisons up here shortly so you can see how much FPS was gained in the CPU tests and Graphics tests, the gains you'll see from either CPU or GPU upgrades will depend on how CPU or GPU intensive a particular game is.

Unfortunately I didn't do the 11700k + 1080ti test as it was pointless for me at the time because I'd already bought the new CPU.
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Wow thanks that would be great. I'm leaning towards getting a 5800X with a decent X570 mobo and 16GB of 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM.

Going to get a new case too with better airflow like those Corsair 400D Airflow ones
 
 
RipGroove said:
If I was you I'd chance it and go for a GPU first, depending on how high end you go will influence how much your CPU will be holding you back but you 'should' see a decent graphics gain as essentially all you've done is change your monitor to a higher resolution which the GPU should handle just fine. Then if you run into any weird CPU bottlneck issues you could tweak in game settings to suit (like lower any CPU heavy tasks like particle effects or draw distance etc and possibly shadow distances) and/or eventually upgrade the CPU fort a nicer match to whatever GPU you go for.
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I see what you mean, ideally I'd want a 3080 but their gold dust right now. I see 3090s in stock here and there. My Sunflower 750W PSU should be enough for it and it'll fir in my NZXT S340 case just about.
 
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