I’m upgrading from a 4770 to a 9600. This is my budget free living room PC build. I’m trying to keep everything even bottleneck wise.
Helldovers is starting to chug like I put water in my cars gas tank. My Gtx1060 is…old.
What GPU should I upgrade to? I was looking at 2080s for around $200.
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Just so you do know helldivers will be bottlenecked on the cpu with any reasonable gpu upgrade so don’t worry too hard about unbalancing it a bit more if you wanted to go for a 4060ti instead. You’re getting a nice upgrade but the 9600k is still only 6 cores just keep in mind. Modern stuff is going to be tough. This year’s games are kicking my own 9700k ass at 1440p.
I have a 4070ti and it’s chilling at like 60% much of the time on games like helldivers or marvel rivals so when I do upgrade it’ll be massive. I can play games from 2018 at a bajillion fames though. Just wanted to give you my acedotal for your brain pocket.
Yes helldivers seems to be optimized for NASAs Minecraft computer for TNT simulation. Not standard computers. But man…I’m running into 20-60fps depending on what’s going on in game. If I could do 40-60fps that’s a win for me.
I have the game heavily loaded to the GPU side in riva tuner. It’ll usually be 90% GPU and 60/80% CPU load.
Medium-high, 1080p, fsr quality, dx11.
My max processor on that mobo being 9900k gives me the smallest wiggle room but it’ll be okay. I don’t need 4k ultra dlss 240fps cyberpunk RTX gameplay. I want 1080p, 60fps low-med stable gameplay. I can leave the graphics envy to the kids with money.
I totally see your point and agree with your path! I just wanted to point out that the core amount is more debilitating now than it might have been a few years ago. My 9700k can run battlefront 2 or bf1 and 144hz locked. It’s just since 2021 spec requirements on the cpu side have spiked since they more than doubled the cores and threads across the board. It’s completely silly that bf2042 looks worse than bf5 in a lot of situations but has my cpu crying for death lol.
Cpu limited stuttering is way worse than gpu too. Marvel rivals I’m pulling 80-90fps in fights which is honestly impressive, the issue being it feels like total shit because it is the cpu that is redlining.
If you run into the same issue, you can use process Explorer to keep your cpu under 97%, which makes it feel much better
So I’ll be using Linux for gaming. But I know I can do the same in Linux. Other than Doom the dark ages, I see no games I’m interested in that may possibly need an upgrade in hardware. And I’m gonna assume if my 4770/1060 can run eternal at 60fps high/ultra 1080p I’ll be fine for the future.
That seems like unreal engine 5 problems. I won’t be buying games with unreal engine 5. I don’t like the way they feel while playing.
It does yea ue5 has been a bit sludge. Rivals is really the first one I’ve played that’s nice