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RAM usage was just over 11GB which would be 69% ram usage. Nothing to worry at that level of ram usage, the system should be completely stable.

RAM usage was just over 11GB, Fortnite ram usage has been increasing over the last few years. The RAM usage can be seen in the MSI Afterburner overlay on the left side of the screen. I don't think the 3D resolution will effect ram usage that much, but will significantly reduce the GPU usage. VRAM (the ram on the GPU) started at 2.6GB but rose to just over 3.0GB by the end of the match. I was playing at 1080p resolution, what resolution are you playing at ?

Yeah, the higher settings in fortnite is effectively ray tracing options now which smashes performance. Personally I don't turn them on when playing on my own PC. Thanks for the comment.

I put the CPU Voltage to 1.275, set the CPU ratio to 45, and set the turbo type to Fixed so the CPU clock stays at 4.5Ghz rather than moving based on usage.

This CPU was overclocked to run a bit faster than stock, plus I play on Pro settings (everything on low, except View distance). Also Fortnite always has a bit of stutter the first couple of games each day you play which normally resolves itself by the 2nd or 3rd match. If you're still having issues I would suggest moving to Performance mode and capping the framerate to 120. Fortnite at low settings is very CPU reliant, you'll see in this video even through the CPU had a decent overclock it was still maxed out while playing. Hopefully something in the above 2 paragraohs helps, but if not it may be time for a cpu upgrade.

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment, but unfortunately this PC was sold shortly after this video was published

Unfortunately I don't keep the PCs. This PC would have been listed on facebook marketplace and sold shortly after all the videos on this PC were uploaded. Looking at the video it was CPU bottlenecked, so reducing the resolution to 720p would have a negligible if any effect on the fps. Reducing the settings from Max to Low would have an impact as some of the settings would lower the load on the CPU.

@@rmgaminguk7079 its okay! have a great day!

To be able to overclock the cpu like I have you will need a Z series motherboard. Many older games will still use all the cores of this old i5 so being able to overclock brings real gains. As an alternative look for the i7-4770k, not as expensive as the i7-4790k but will give nearly the same performance. To get on a ddr4 platform lso look for an i7-6700k cpu and motherboard. Shouldn't be much more and the newer architecture and faster ram will help performance.. A 750 watt PSU will be more than enough for any reasonable GPU you'll be pairing the CPU with, easily enough for the GTX 960. If you can afford a slightly more expensive gpu try to get the gtx 970 or the gtx 1060 6gb, both of which should be well under £80 and be not much more than the gtx 970. While all these gpus will be fine for valorant, I would check out my other benchmark videos to see how they perform in slightly more demanding games. In reality you won't see any performance difference going up to 32gb of ram. If you look at my benchmark videos I was always way under 16gb of ram usage. With a modern system, playing the most recent games at High or Ultra settings maybe you may then need more than 16gb. On ram you should look for at least 1600mhz speed. I have encountered issues with slower ram. As an alternative look at your local facebook marketplace and even ebay for fully build PCs, you may find you're able to find a much better spec for the cost it will be to assemble a budget PC separately. Best of luck with your build and/or search.

Thank you for your answer. I found that buyìng parts and build seeems cheaper. Might actually build two, one ddr3 and one ddr4 my buddy had a better gpu and a water cooling system but that will happend later for now ddr and 960gtx will have to do ;)

Yes it a low profile card, there are sone standard sized gtx 1050Ti's but only a low profile one would fit in this Dell Optiplex. You can see the GPU in the case on the slide at 30 seconds into the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@rmgaminguk7079 ooh i see, thanks man appreciate the video✨✨

Those two cpus are very close, and to be honest I would recommend neither and try to get a faster cpu. The i5-7500 has marginally faster per core speed, but the hyperthreading on the i7-4790 will give it the edge as all threads will be heavily utilised (as shown in this video). The average frame will not be much different but I suspect the 1% low framerates will be better with the i7 despite it being older. If you have a Z series motherboard for either platform I will go with that and get a k series cpu. While the i7-4790k is definitely overpriced on the 2nd hand market the i7-4770k can sometimes be found. For the 7th gen platform if you have a Z series motherboard the i7-6700k can normally be picked up at a good price. Both k series cpu should be easy to overclock to 4.5Ghz which will really help performance. While the i7-4790 cpu would be better, if you only have these options I would actually go with the i5-7500 because you have the option to get the cheap i7-6700 (or i7-6700k) and you are on a more modern platform with ddr4 ram, plus your motherboard might support m.2 nvme drives. However my recommendation if you are choosing between the two is to wait and get something more modern, an i5-8400 at a minimum or ideally an i5-10400 (for 6 cores with 12 threads and faster per core speed). Thanks for watching and the interesting question.

Valorant is cpu intensive, have you got anything else running on the PC, eg. spotify, discord, other game launchers, monitoring software ? I have a recent clean windows install, and nothing else running apart from geforce experience to record the footage. I would use task manager to see if anything else is using up a significant amount of cpu usage. Hope you find the cause..

The K series CPUs are overclockable, that is to say if you have a overclockable motherboard you can set the cpu to run at a higher clock speed and if required allow it to draw more power. More power and running at a higher clock speed will lead to more heat and higher tempatures but if done right and you have sufficient cooling it can lead to increaesed performance for negigible risk. However if done bad it can lead to overheating (and it the worse case damaging) the cpu. To overclock a k series cpu you will need to be using a Z series cpu (eg. a Z97 one). Overclocking is a topic too big for a youtube comment, so I recommend that you watch some in-depth youtube videos, in particular ones using your motherboard and cpu. In CPU bound scenarios overclocking can lead to useful increases in fps, and can eliminate or reduce the stutters that are common in cpu bottlenecked scenarios.

Yeah, its a legendary chip, can still high fps in games like Valorant

I leave the frame rate uncapped so people can see what performance the PC can do. When playing its definitely an option to cap the frame rate to 60 fps which will reduce any frame rate dips.

Valorant is normally an easy game to run. What GPU are you running ? You shouldn't need a powerful for valorant (the one I was using was only being about half used). I would also check t o see if something is not using your CPU in the background. I will close any other apps, such as chrome tabs, spotify, discord, other games launchers (eg. Epic, Steam). Also look at task manager to see if any process is using more than a few percentage of the cpu (eg. a virus could be using up cpu performance). Also check your CPU isn't overheating. If the CPU overheats it will usually downclock (ie. slow its speed) to prevent it overheating further and damaging itself. Use something like HW Info or the MSI Afterburner overlay to monitor temperatures.

Your monitor will be able to display 144 frames a second, in the game if you limited the frame rate to 144 fps it will stick to 144 frame per second. Even if you don't limit the frame rate, when the PC is capable to displaying more frames than 144, the monitor will only be able to display 144 frames, so in that case its best to limit the frame rate to 144. As well as telling the game to limit the frame rate to 144 you can tell the came to turn on vsync this will tell it to limit the frame rate to what you monitor can display. Thanks for watching, and for the question.

@@rmgaminguk7079 Thank you for the answer man. Really appreciate it

dang what are your specs

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I find i7-4790k's to be too expensive when they are for sale separately. I tend to look our for them in combos with the motherboard or in older gaming PCs that someone is getting rid of. In this case it was someone local to me who had upgraded, so I bought the CPU, RAM & Motherboard all together in an ebay auction for £85. I occasionally look for local pickup only ebay auctions, because they tend to go under the radar as most people on ebay are looking to have things posted to them.

Yes pls

I'm surprised the ram would make that much difference, as this PC was only using just over 6gb of ram. Its worth checking to see what else in running in the background, and to see what you ram usage is. If there are things running in the background it could mean you are running out of ram leading to the stutters. Thanks for watching.

@@rmgaminguk7079 found my issue it was my hdd I got another ssd and reinstalled it so it's working fine now!

Thanks, glad you liked it. A Call of Duty Warzone video will be coming out shortly.

The frame rate can be seen on the right side of the screen next to where it says ,"D3D11". The frame rate averaged around 160 mainly staying between 150 and 170. Thanks for watching and commenting.

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No, the 1050ti doesn't need any extra power from the power supply and gets all the power it need from the connection to the motherboard which can supply it with up to 75 watts. It's one of the things that makes the 1050ti and 1650 (non super) so great for upgrading office PCs. Thanks for watching and your great question.

@@rmgaminguk7079 thank you my friend !

It's a very small difference. The S version has a lower base clock but the turbo speed (ie. the speed it would go up to under load) was the same. The S version was also had a lower power usage. I didn't really notice any difference, plus it would only come up in CPU bound scenarios. Looking at the Passmark comparison website (www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2226vs2258/Intel-i7-4790-vs-Intel-i7-4790S) it's showed a 1.4% difference in single core speed and a 3.4% difference in all core workloads. A difference that would be unnoticeable. Thanks for watching the video and leaving a comment

@@rmgaminguk7079 ok my bro so if i pair both cpus with rtx 3050 so can I get same fps in both cpus

No I didn't. The old dell optiplexes came with good quality PSUs, the main issue being that they would have low wattage. The 1050ti doesn't need any extra power from the PSU and the i7 wasn't overclocked (it couldn't be on the dell motherboard) so the existing PSU was fine.

Yeah, its definitely the game I see most people on forums and facebook groups asking for advise on how to improve performance.

Thanks, it did really work out well.

@@rmgaminguk7079 can you record in 60fps in ur vids next time

Unfortunately I don't have any videos uploaded I remember the FX CPU always had great headroom to overclock the two FX 8350 CPUs I've had both overclocked over 4.5Ghz, I remember one went to a stable 4.7Ghz. This overclock really helped the frame rate and allowed the FX chip to compete with a locked i5 4th generation CPU. I would still take an unlocked 4th gen i5 or i7 over the FX 8000 series.

Considering that's 8 years ago now I'm impressed it's still doing so well. I think the CPU could keep up with a faster GPU in sole games. I've temporarily put a 1660 Super in the PC to see what effect it has. Should be a decent uplift in any game that was GPU bottlenecked. How are you finding your PC ? Thinking of an upgrade or does it do everything you want ? Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@rmgaminguk7079 i did some bottleneck tests and seems like the gpu is slowing the cpu you're right. After all, it's just 3.5 vram so should be upgraded to a new 8 or 11gb at least. the cpu could still work if cooled well, in my case it's about 90-100° C under load 💀 pretty stressed but still manages to gain good fps. however as it's so old it has no reason to be upgraded. as you change the gpu then the cpu could give bottleneck, if you change cpu then you gotta change motherboard and rams too. it's a new pc then lol

@@simoschv I was thinking something inbetween the 970 and something new, such as a second hand 1660 super could be worth it to extend the life of the PC. However you're right in that anything more powerful and you should build a new PC from scratch or buy a new one.

Even on high settings Valorant is CPU bottlenecked, so I would first look to your CPU to see if anything effecting its performance. Have you got anything else running in the background ? When I record these videos I have nothing running except the Valorant launcher, MSI Afterburner and Riva tuner (for the onscreen stats) and Nvidia Experience to record the gameplay, Other launchers looking for updates or downloading updates, Windows virus checker doing a scan, or Windows update downloading updates can all effect performance, as well as virus' doing background work. Next I would to see if you CPU is running at the expected speed. Check to ensure that the CPU is not down-clocking because it is overheating. I would use something like HWMonitor to check temps as you game. I like the feature that it shows maximum stats (ie. temp) as well as current and average, rather than having to look at the real time stats while gaming. Although the CPU is the main limiter for Valorant performance its worth checking the GPU is working ok. If the system is somehow using integrated graphics rather than your GPU that would also lower temps. Again look for GPU temps to make sure its not overheating and down-clocking the GPU speed. Hope some of this helps find the issue for you. Thanks for watching the video.

@@rmgaminguk7079 cpu is running at 80 to 90% but gpu only 20 to 40%

@@simules3530 That's roughly what I would expect playing valorant. Have you checked Task Manager to see if anything else is running in the background ? It's worth checking the CPU temps to see if its overheating and down-clocking.

@@rmgaminguk7079 nothing is running in background except the windows services

Glad I could help. I watch the Toasty Bros videos a lot myself, they know their stuff. When it comes to upgrading, it's worth watching a video where someone has upgraded your exact model. Dell has changed overtime what can be upgraded and what non-standard connectors they use. The Dell Optiplexes are still a good option for upgrading the ram to 16gb and slapping a GPU that will work to get a vert cost effective budget gaming PC.

While the i5-11400 will be 5-10% faster than the i5-10400, the GTX 1660 Super will be much much faster than the GTX 1650. The 1650 is more for office machines as it doesn't need supplimentary power from the power supply. The website techpowerup rates the 1660 Super as 68% faster than the 1650 which you would see come through to much greater performance in games. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Yes, once you lower the settings to medium/low its more the playable and a pleasant experience. Thanks for watching and commenting.