Help !

[BradJTM]

My pc frame rates aren’t to great and I don’t know what I can do to improve this

I have a dell XPs 420 with 8gb of ram, gtx 770 and a qx9650 3.ghz processor

I know it’s an old machine but surely with the hardware I shouldn’t be facing 30 FPS

Would the screen impact this as I do use a led 24inch television on hdmi port

Hoping some suggestions can help me out

Thanks

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Which games?
What your screen resolution?

The only way to gain performance / FPS is by lowering the game settings, and using a lower screen resolution. Ensure you don't have anything in the background hogging your system resources.

[BradJTM]

csgo
pubg
ring of elysium
fortnite
modern warfare
gta

I dont keep the game settings high to be fair I did have a gtx 950 2gb and bought that not expecting the greatest of performance but definetely expected better when putting in the gtx 770 4gb. my screen resolution is 1360x768
I try to keep my pc simple and really do only use it for gaming so I am really not sure where else my performance could be

[𝔇ave]

Doesn't surprise me that you are getting low fps. Your hardware is ancient and will struggle with modern games.

[BradJTM]

What do you recommend Dave ?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Alright some of those games make sense to get ~ 30 ~ FPS in them for intensive CPU usage, but I think it might be your CPU holding you back. But if you're having problems in CSGO, and Fortnite, then i'm not 100% sure if it's the CPU is the problem. Do you have any apps running in the background like broswers, or etc?

[Sapph]

You're cpu bottlenecked in most of those games.
The Q9650 is just too weak due to those games being heavily cpu-performance dependat.

Fortnite and CS GO: hugely 1 to 2 core performance dependant, you are running 100% on one or 2 cores.

GTA V, PUBG: hugely multi-core dependant. The 4 weak cores is just not sufficient and you're running all of them at 100%.

Ring of Elysium: Early Access game with Early Access level of optimization, might be using only 2 cores.


In addition, you might be thermal throttling.

[[LTT] LinusFTW]

You have a CPU bottleneck.

[nullable]

Your system is old enough that you really don't have any sensible upgrade options. It sounds like you're in the market for a new system if you're not happy with performance.

[BradJTM]

I have run through some settings just now and there is improvement

CSGO is at 100+
GTA is fine visually and performance wise (cant find fps)
Fortnite is pretty much locked to 60fps with 16ms
R.O.E is early access and having frame issues apparently
PUBG 30-40

I would like to hope it is my QX9650 cpu

I dont plan on using the machine for much longer, It was just a machine i wanted to put together after gathering dust for a few years of not working as Ive had some good memories with it
I shall just keep tinkering around with it and monitor the performances and see how it goes

Thanks for all your help guys !

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If you need help picking out parts in the future just ask, and someone will help you out.

[nullable]

brad.mortimer125 původně napsal:

I have run through some settings just now and there is improvement

CSGO is at 100+
GTA is fine visually and performance wise (cant find fps)
Fortnite is pretty much locked to 60fps with 16ms
R.O.E is early access and having frame issues apparently
PUBG 30-40

I would like to hope it is my QX9650 cpu

I dont plan on using the machine for much longer, It was just a machine i wanted to put together after gathering dust for a few years of not working as Ive had some good memories with it
I shall just keep tinkering around with it and monitor the performances and see how it goes

Thanks for all your help guys !

Well the CPU is extremely old. Even a modern 8th or 9th gen i3 would stomp it easily. The GPU is pretty old too, mid-high range from 2013. You could always migrate the GPU to a new system, but it's much closer to needing an upgrade than not.

[Talby]

Try older titles like HL2 and souce based games / mods e.g. team fortress / red orchestra they should run a bit better

[_I_]

3ghz on a 10+yr old cpu is not nearly the same as 3ghz on a modern cpu

i5 7400 and your cq2 are both 3ghz with 4 cores
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q9650-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7400/m1706vs3886
the new i5 is about twice as fast