Hello gamers, matching mid-tier and high-tier parts in general are not perfect in terms of performance as is described by other members of this thread. However the processors mentioned in this thread are not slow by any means and games that do not have so many objects to be fed to a GPU from the CPU will generally run fine, and the calculations for lighting and and other effects will still benefit from the faster GPU without any sort of CPU bottleneck. It would be unfair to criticize people for this fault as many pre-builts will have these specs and not all people are well informed about how bottlenecks function. Apex Legends throws a lot of objects at your CPU, all of which will be sent to the GPU to be rendered and exported as a frame, and if your CPU does not have the multi-core performance (Because it utilizes multiple cores) to export all of this vertex data to such a high end GPU then it is inevitable that you will experience constant hangs or a completely held back frame-rate. There is no way around it unfortunately as in order to have this game function properly it needs to have these objects.. Games like Rainbow Six, CoD, and Overwatch, are not very heavy on the CPU and should perform seamlessly with these high end cards, especially at 1080p. On the other end, games that have a lot of objects being fed to your CPU and GPU such as open world and battle royale maps, will cause the CPU to lag in performance and heavily impact frames no matter the graphical setting. There are a few things however that you can do to increase performance regardless; first: change your <i>actual</i> resolution to a lower setting, turn any LOD options to the lowest setting, and disable grass. Lastly, check if your CPU is the actual problem, you will see this when you change your graphical settings such as ambient Occlusion and Shadows and see little impact on performance, or see really low frames in CPU heavy games like AC Odyssey, even on really low settings. The only way to really fix these issues so that you don't have to play on these pitifully low settings is to upgrade your CPU.
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