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What to upgrade

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my pc seems to be showing some slowness on certain games. It's not network lag.

Is there a tool where I can run like a benchmark that will tell me what component is not keeping up?

My specs are
Intel i7-8700k 3.70 ghz
16 GB ram DDR3 I believe (it's been a while)
ssd hard drives
2070 Super Nvidia card

I'm suspecting it's my ram. My problem is trying to find matching ram at a reasonable price to boot.

Before I go that route I'd like to know what is giving me the issue.
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You can try 3DMark.
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gilraen wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:56 pm You can try 3DMark.
yes but will tell me what component is holding me back? I've used it before, and never found it very helpful
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found a benchmark tool that measures all the component. It showed my RAM didn't have xmp turned on. After turning that on I ran it again and got a much better score. Now to test real world
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What was the tool?
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JCC wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 5:37 pm What was the tool?
https://www.userbenchmark.com/
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while I got XMP enabled, I didn't see any real improvement. But from looking at the tests, my memory benchmarks were not that great compared to my other components.
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tomorrow I'll have 32 GB of ram coming my way. Pretty good deal $117 before tax. I almost bought 16gb for $80

Gonna see if both will play nice, if not, I plan on selling my existing which should get me $50 or so
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well, got the ram, and I ended up buying a slightly used (like less than 6 months) EVGA 3080 FTW 10 GB with water cooler for $750.

Hell of a time installing the components. But man it's fast.
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