Upgraded but poor performance.. advice?

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fuchsiashockz

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Hi, I just upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 3 2200g and performance is obviously better but still not great, I feel.
I've tried overclocking both the CPU and GPU separately but they don't seem to like any oc at all. GPU sounds like a jet engine.
Any upgrade or performance advice you can give me?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
 
Define what you mean by poor performance?
I just went from 7700k to 3900x
Just doing some things I notice no difference
But now if I say open 5 different browsers all with 10+ tabs open in them this 3900x doesn't even break a sweat
What I am trying to say is are you actually doing something that will let the 2700x flex its muscles?
 
Kinda need more info too. I assume by performance you mean in games. What games are you playing and at what resolution? In terms of possible upgrades, you've made a relatively small jump in hardware so I wouldn't expect huge increases.
 
It's a gaming machine. I only play at 1080.
I can hold 60fps mostly on battlefield V on max settings, same on Battlefront 2.
No man's Sky is still laggy to load when moving around (it's on the SSD).
Osiris New Dawn is about 30fps if that but I believe its not optimised.
When gaming, CPU, GPU and memory never show full load.
 
You will never get 100% memory full load, windows memory management sorts that. What I would start looking at is GPU temps, as you said it sound like a jet engine, and the 580 Armour hasn't got the best cooler.

If you have GPU temps over ~90C then it *could* be thermally throttling; slowing itself down as to not overheat. You can try to under-volt the GPU by a small, read 0.05-0.1V, and see if that helps. Or you can manually turn up the GPU fans to 100% and try that, if it helps then you know you are temperature limited.

The 580 isn't the best these days but it should be fine for 1080p gaming.
 
You could try to replace the TIM(Thermal Interface Material) on the GPU, but beware that you could kill the GPU if not careful - and also it may not change a thing.

What case do you have, some cards are too big for a lot of cases, and what is your budget?
 
Have you benched it yet? If you compare it against other systems with same specs, that should tell you if something is wrong, like if it is throttling.

Just to be clear, you only changed CPU? Is the SSD both a boot drive and a game drive?
 
I use 3D Mark because the database is searchable. I don't know if your FurMark score is right, but from a quick google it seems reasonable, hopefully someone else can tell you.

The reason I asked about the SSD is because some games can be laggy when used on a boot drive SSD, especially if it is a DRAMless drive.
 
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