Hi everyone! I've been out of the PC building scene for a while, and I'm looking for some advice. My current gaming setup isn't cutting it anymore—I have an i7-11700f processor, 24GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 4070 GPU, but I can't run modern games smoothly. Even at moderate to high settings, I'm having trouble hitting 60 FPS, which isn't enjoyable. I'm considering upgrading to a 5080 GPU in hopes of fixing this, but I'm worried my other hardware might bottleneck that upgrade. Would it be better to just upgrade the GPU, or is my setup old enough that I should think about building an entirely new PC?
*Edit: Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'm going to check the RAM setup and look into enabling XMP and possibly refreshing my software.
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Upgrading to a better GPU will definitely help. Your current hardware should hold up fine, but I would recommend looking into the 5070 Ti instead of the 5080 for a balance of performance and cost. Also, 24GB of RAM is a bit odd—what’s the configuration? Are you using three 8GB sticks and is there a mismatch in them?
Yeah, it's three 8GB sticks with one being different. It's been like that for ages! My PC says they're running at 2666 MT/s.