At this point, it is safe to assume most people know there are a few important points in your computer build. Things like which GPU, what CPU, and how much RAM you have. Well, I have found another bottleneck which was not even on my mind when I recently upgraded my system.
I first upgraded with a new hard drive because I needed a dedicated drive to video projects anyway. In addition, I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB of RAM (glad I didn't go all the way to 128GB...will explain later). These two points did help, but not enough.
I then decided to bite A bullet (more bullets were bitten later, ) and upgraded from my ald R9 290 to an RTX 3060ti. Generally speaking, the video upgrade was only noticeable during video editing. During picture or audio editing, the GPU upgrade had no noticeable impact. The system still couldn't keep up with the projects I was attempting to work on, one of them even approaching being unrecoverable due to immediately maxing the GPU memory and crashing DR before anything could be done.
And thus, the second bullet was bitten... I upgraded to an RTX 3090ti. Again, in general, no difference to system operation, web surfing, picture or audio editing, etc...from the R9 290. In DR though, In DR, totally different story. Things went from being inaccessible to working nicely again.
Here is where the useful part comes in. I started noticing...no matter what, projects were still laggy. I kept an eye on the performance tab in the windows task manager to try and spot where the bottleneck was. The hard drive almost never registered activity...so that was ruled out. I had plenty of available RAM...so that was not it. The CPU was only registering 30-40% usage...so that wasn't it. The GPU had plenty of overhead, registering between 15-40% usage, plus VRAM only registering about 50% usage.
So what the heck was the bottleneck? Turns out, the bottleneck is my motherboard. As of this current time, it is now 2 standards old for the PCIE bus. My motherboard can't handle the data throughput. That's nice and all but...How can this help you?
Well, if you are noticing your projects are laggy, but nothing is near being maxed out (RAM, storage, GPU, CPU), it is possibly your motherboard that is bottle-necking your system. My mobo has PCIE v3. You may need a mobo with a newer standard of PCIE interface.
Hope this helps you, at the very least, identify a possible motherboard bottleneck before you end up spending a bunch of money on other stuff that won't fix the problem.
I first upgraded with a new hard drive because I needed a dedicated drive to video projects anyway. In addition, I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB of RAM (glad I didn't go all the way to 128GB...will explain later). These two points did help, but not enough.
I then decided to bite A bullet (more bullets were bitten later, ) and upgraded from my ald R9 290 to an RTX 3060ti. Generally speaking, the video upgrade was only noticeable during video editing. During picture or audio editing, the GPU upgrade had no noticeable impact. The system still couldn't keep up with the projects I was attempting to work on, one of them even approaching being unrecoverable due to immediately maxing the GPU memory and crashing DR before anything could be done.
And thus, the second bullet was bitten... I upgraded to an RTX 3090ti. Again, in general, no difference to system operation, web surfing, picture or audio editing, etc...from the R9 290. In DR though, In DR, totally different story. Things went from being inaccessible to working nicely again.
Here is where the useful part comes in. I started noticing...no matter what, projects were still laggy. I kept an eye on the performance tab in the windows task manager to try and spot where the bottleneck was. The hard drive almost never registered activity...so that was ruled out. I had plenty of available RAM...so that was not it. The CPU was only registering 30-40% usage...so that wasn't it. The GPU had plenty of overhead, registering between 15-40% usage, plus VRAM only registering about 50% usage.
So what the heck was the bottleneck? Turns out, the bottleneck is my motherboard. As of this current time, it is now 2 standards old for the PCIE bus. My motherboard can't handle the data throughput. That's nice and all but...How can this help you?
Well, if you are noticing your projects are laggy, but nothing is near being maxed out (RAM, storage, GPU, CPU), it is possibly your motherboard that is bottle-necking your system. My mobo has PCIE v3. You may need a mobo with a newer standard of PCIE interface.
Hope this helps you, at the very least, identify a possible motherboard bottleneck before you end up spending a bunch of money on other stuff that won't fix the problem.
DR & F Studio v18.1.1,Win11Pro, i9-13900K, 128GB RAM
GPUs:Intel UHD 770 & RTX 3090ti
OS:1.8TB SSD,P&C drives:2x2TB SSD
Speed Editor, Pen:Huion Inspiroy Dial 2 & XPPen Artist 13.3 Pro, Elecom HUGE Trackball
GPUs:Intel UHD 770 & RTX 3090ti
OS:1.8TB SSD,P&C drives:2x2TB SSD
Speed Editor, Pen:Huion Inspiroy Dial 2 & XPPen Artist 13.3 Pro, Elecom HUGE Trackball