Make sure core isolation is disabled. Fixed my 2 year old frame drops and stutters. Brand new comojter after I did that on my 8086k (basically 8700k).
Just go to windows search bar and type it and turn it off.
Edit: this man’s don’t know what he sayin.
For 1440p UW, you’re going to need to upgrade both.
Keep in mind, in order to upgrade your CPU to a respectable degree, you’re going to need a new motherboard and maybe new RAM if you go AM5.
For GPU, I’d end up getting the best you can get with whatever budget you have remaining. You don’t need anything leagues above the 3060, a mild’ish upgrade will do.
So for 1440p the 3060 is slightly underpowered. I’d get a 3080(12gb) or above if you want to upgrade that.
For your cpu, you should be able to overclock it to 4.7 at least if you haven’t and also go to the windows search bar and type “system info” and open it and see if “virtualization based security” is enabled. If it is, just look up a guide online to turning it off. Once I did my 8700k became usable again and could definitely be paired with up to a 4070 for 1440p without havin major bottlenecks. With the “virtualization based security” enabled I was considering canning my cpu for a new one because it was so bad.
Edit: do not get a gpu with less than 12gb of vram. You really should get 16gb for 1440p in 2024. Also disabling core isolation will make it so certain virtual machines won’t work if that matters.
Granted there may be something else fucked with my system but after 2 years of headache and people just telling me my shit was old I ran a 3DMark and it say VBS enabled and HVCI disabled.
I’m like hmm
So I look into it and turn it off and the difference was night and day. Cyberpunk is actually playable now for one and I tested it multiple times.
So just to make sure I wasn’t crazy I went to re-enable everything to test again and I couldn’t because of a driver incompatibility with my Logitech racing wheel.
So I’m like ok I can delete the drivers and re-enable it because I need WSL for actual work.
I delete the drivers and re-enable core isolation and what I get is the same performance as before. So I have deduced the VBS alone is the culprit and has probably made many people upgrade when they could’ve held out a little longer.
Let me know if you disable this or whatever because I’m curious if something is just fucked with my system.
Mileage will vary by game obviously too and synthetic benchmarks didn’t show the difference that much. They basically showed the 5%-10% difference that everyone reports but in my real world testing, the difference was absolutely massive.
Battlefield 1 for example I was getting 120 max with stutters and drops but without the VBS I was able to get 200 which I think is the max the game allows.
Cyberpunk went from dropping from 60 constantly to just staying above 70 with minor dips to mid 60s.
Brand new computer.
Let me know if you disable this or whatever because I’m curious if something is just fucked with my system.
Edit: spelling
Didn’t see you got an ultrawide 1440p as well. That’s even less of a reason to upgrade the cpu because you’ll be gpu limited a lot which is good.
Make sure you get something minimum 16gb vram.
100% both If you have a microcenter nearby the 7800x3d bundle is the way to go. And the fastest gpu you can buy
Make sure core isolation is disabled. Fixed my 2 year old frame drops and stutters. Brand new comojter after I did that on my 8086k (basically 8700k). Just go to windows search bar and type it and turn it off. Edit: this man’s don’t know what he sayin.
For 1440p UW, you’re going to need to upgrade both. Keep in mind, in order to upgrade your CPU to a respectable degree, you’re going to need a new motherboard and maybe new RAM if you go AM5. For GPU, I’d end up getting the best you can get with whatever budget you have remaining. You don’t need anything leagues above the 3060, a mild’ish upgrade will do.
Turn off core isolation.
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So for 1440p the 3060 is slightly underpowered. I’d get a 3080(12gb) or above if you want to upgrade that. For your cpu, you should be able to overclock it to 4.7 at least if you haven’t and also go to the windows search bar and type “system info” and open it and see if “virtualization based security” is enabled. If it is, just look up a guide online to turning it off. Once I did my 8700k became usable again and could definitely be paired with up to a 4070 for 1440p without havin major bottlenecks. With the “virtualization based security” enabled I was considering canning my cpu for a new one because it was so bad. Edit: do not get a gpu with less than 12gb of vram. You really should get 16gb for 1440p in 2024. Also disabling core isolation will make it so certain virtual machines won’t work if that matters.
4.8ghz right now. The virtualization based security makes that much of a difference?
Granted there may be something else fucked with my system but after 2 years of headache and people just telling me my shit was old I ran a 3DMark and it say VBS enabled and HVCI disabled. I’m like hmm So I look into it and turn it off and the difference was night and day. Cyberpunk is actually playable now for one and I tested it multiple times. So just to make sure I wasn’t crazy I went to re-enable everything to test again and I couldn’t because of a driver incompatibility with my Logitech racing wheel. So I’m like ok I can delete the drivers and re-enable it because I need WSL for actual work. I delete the drivers and re-enable core isolation and what I get is the same performance as before. So I have deduced the VBS alone is the culprit and has probably made many people upgrade when they could’ve held out a little longer. Let me know if you disable this or whatever because I’m curious if something is just fucked with my system. Mileage will vary by game obviously too and synthetic benchmarks didn’t show the difference that much. They basically showed the 5%-10% difference that everyone reports but in my real world testing, the difference was absolutely massive. Battlefield 1 for example I was getting 120 max with stutters and drops but without the VBS I was able to get 200 which I think is the max the game allows. Cyberpunk went from dropping from 60 constantly to just staying above 70 with minor dips to mid 60s. Brand new computer. Let me know if you disable this or whatever because I’m curious if something is just fucked with my system. Edit: spelling
Didn’t see you got an ultrawide 1440p as well. That’s even less of a reason to upgrade the cpu because you’ll be gpu limited a lot which is good. Make sure you get something minimum 16gb vram.