Hi All.
Current setup:
CPU - i7-11700k
Asus z490-e
32gb RAM
Two 24in Dell Ultrasharp similar to U2422H
Asus 1660 ti
Seasonic FOCUS GX-650, 650W 80+ Gold
My current setup is fine for the most part but when I got the new monitors, I’ve noticed that my little GPU is struggling to keep up–dropping FPS even in lower settings. The only game I ever play is WoW. Usually I’ll have WoW open in one window and Netlfix or whatever streaming service/movie open in another.
I’m thinking my GPU is the problem here and since I’m not a hardcore gamer, I don’t need the best and most expensive. And I probably don’t need to wait for the new 4000 series for my uses which are pretty specific and not at all super intensive. So I’m not entirely concerned about “future proofing” or whatever the marketing catch phrase is these days.
Since GPUs have mostly come back down to normal pricing, I’ve been debating on whether to get a 3070 ($600) or 3080 ($750).
For my uses, which would y’all recommend?
Edit: added PSU
Recommend listing your power supply to get a better recommendation.
Surprised your 1660ti is struggling at 1080p, are you trying to max out everything?
I’d personally go for the 3080 if funds and power supply allows it. Both 3070 and 3080 are more than enough for WoW.
Anywho. If you’re open to used cards, a 3080/6800xt can be had for roughly 550ish ball park.
No, not even trying to max out everything. I think I have everything at an 8. FPS only dips when I start up a movie or stream on the second monitor.
My thoughts are if the 3080 is only $150 more, I might as well. But that’s probably extreme overkill for my uses which is basically a gloried home theater setup while I fish on WoW.
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS GX-650, 650W 80+ Gold
I don’t know if it was a windows 10/11 and/or adaptive sync issue but sometimes my game syncs up with the frames on the video/streaming services.
The 650psu awhile can power the gpu, you can be cutting it close depending on how much load is being used overall. Recommended to get a beefier psu if you want to upgrade
my guess is the 2 monitors. probably need something stronger to drive both monitors while gaming & watching movies
try disabling hardware acceleration on the browser since that taxes the gpu
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I’m leaning towards what Earthie said, from personal experience. Driving multiple monitors, especially when you stream on others, can tax a GPU. Even more if you watch stuff in higher res.
RTX 3070 will get the job done.
I personally don’t think its a GPU issue maybe some setting having to do with vsync adaptive sync but 2 1080p 60hz monitors shouldn’t be stressing a 1660ti while streaming 1080p videos while playing wow.
$420 rx6750xt
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I would agree with Eviver though as the card should be doing well. Maybe set wow to it and play with the fps settings for background.
Kind of… ? Unlike most games World of Warcraft is very CPU bound
Yes but his processor is going to bottleneck him a bit. World of Warcraft is a very CPU heavy game even at 1440p
Moving to a 5800x3D would help massively. With World of Warcraft being such as CPU heavy game? Cpu cache is Huge! I have seen in some cases the CPU make more of a difference in this game than the GPU. It is one of the few Niche games where this is true
Check it out OP. He has benchmarks in there from various processors with World of Warcraft
5800X3D will require a change of motherboard. Also, the GPU isn’t RTX 3090. I would advise against getting AM4 at this point. Raptor Lake is coming next week as well.
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The question right now isn’t wether OP should upgrade but why watching something on the second monitor is causing hiccups for OP.
His current spec should be more than enough for 1080p.
The way OP describes it, it sounds more like a windows/driver issue since I had this issue when I was using my 2080ti. It come and goes depending on window updates for me
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I have had some issues when I’m playing WoW on my main monitor (1440p, 144hz, Freesync enabled) and I’m watching movie/tv on one of my 2nd monitors (1440p, 60Hz). But in that case it was the video on the 2nd monitor that started to get glitchy; the game FPS was not affected. The less-than-ideal solution was to either disable Freesync, or cap my in-game FPS at 60fps while I was watching video. That might be different than the problem OP was having though.
The OP does have another option however, that would serve as an easy workaround. The CPU has integrated graphics and the motherboard has an HDMI and Displayport port that uses the CPU graphics. So leave the main monitor connected to the 1660 Ti, and connect the 2nd monitor to the CPU graphics via the motherboard instead. Since you will have two completely different GPUs powering each monitor, there would be much less chance of any conflict or performance loss. I did this back when I ran an overclocked 2500k with a triple-monitor setup. ONLY my main center monitor was powered by my Geforce card. Both side monitors were powered by the CPU graphics. It worked great for years.
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You do have a very good point that sometimes I don’t always think like a consumer. Sometimes I just focus on the hardcore numbers. I guess that’s just the tech Enthusiast Within Me.
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You can have the best CPU in the world and still you get a bottleneck from the network. Network cannot be faster due to the distance. They already travel with light.
Anyway, his 11700K will last.
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