RTX 2070 Super, What Next?

[winngames]

Hi All,

I've recently upgraded from 1060 6gb to the RTX 2070 super and although games are more playable i feel like something in my system is holding me back, thinking ram speed / processor. Any suggestions would be great.

i was thinking i could upgrade the ram to 3200mhz but not sure how much of an impact this would have on performance

 

[winngames]

Without a doubt the CPU BUT we need to know games & settings.

bit of everything really (F1 2019, Battlefield 5, Assassins Creed, The Witcher)

I only play at 1080p at the moment

 

[winngames]

Indeed, though you really can't go a 'feeling'. Did you do benchmarks before and after in the games that you play? Your RAM speed does seem a bit slow at 2400Mhz for the 1000 series though I'm no expert.

Unfortunately not, but I can now play all of those games with everything maxed out at 1080p (struggled to get solid 60 with low-medium with 1060 6gb). With the 2070 I'm experiencing some weird issues in games but I'm putting that down to teething problems with new cards and drivers

Yup, definitely the CPU. Could use an R5 3600 instead. RAM also quite slow sadly, though it might be tricky to get fast ram in that mobo. At least in the meantime you might want to just up resolution/render scale, enjoy some extra eye candy. Would probably advise you to cap FPS to 60 as well (weird behaviour otherwise, sometimes).

the motherboard supports 3200mhz max :/ my computer was originally a budget build

 

[winngames]

This.

That card is really for higher resolutions anyway, so grab yourself a nice 1440p monitor.

I think that is probably the best option for me for now, I'm long overdue a new monitor and I haven't really got the money for a new processor, psu and ram.

Any idea on how much performance I could be losing sticking with 1600 for now? From what I have found online it's looking around 20-30% I know there's no such thing a future proofing with tech but hopefully i will get a good few years out of this card

 

[winngames]

and is it 60hz or higher ?

Current monitor is Samsung S23A700 - 120hz. its about 8 years old.

 

[winngames]

Thanks everyone for the advice, I've managed to oc to 3.9 stable and the ram to 2800 which has significantly improved frame rate. however in games BF5 the game stutters / freezes for about a second and the cpu usage shoots up from around 70% to 95% looks like i will have to upgrade to see the benefit of this card.

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 - 91.6%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070-Super - 136.9%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - 112.5%
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RAM: Crucial BLS8G4D240FSA.16FBD 2x8GB - 102.5%
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