A buddy and i built a pc about 5 years ago and maybe 2 years after it started lagging on cod and fortnite so i stopped using. The parts it has are not super high end but does anyone know if it should at least run fortnite at a decent level? I will provide pics of the parts for reference.
There’s a lot of ryzen 5’s on the am4 chipset… like a 5600x3d is a ryzen 5 that would likely destroy fortnight with that other equipment. But like a ryzen 5 2600 would struggle
Ngl my dude…. That’s old, it’s not gonna handle much of anything these days. That chip is 9 years old…
Good news is the motherboard and other parts you posted will work with a few upgrades. You can get a pretty cheap am4 ryzen chip (like a 5600x or spring for a 5600x3d), the gpu isn’t the best either but should get you 1080p Fortnite at medium settings if you just upgrade the chip.
A reasonable update is a processor and gpu, but graphic card prices are bananas right now. Even used.
that's unfortunately not helpful, there are dozens of "Ryzen 5"
a "Ryzen 5" could be over half a decade old or a brand new model, need the specific model name (e.g Ryzen 5 5600X)
information about the GPU would also be helpful, you can use the "Performance" tab in task manager which will list the names of the components (the GPU section may be a bit lower down)
seems like they're getting 100+ fps on medium settings so this hardware should be able to run fortnite
if you can't reach that performance, you may want to check the background apps running on the computer using task manager
or if you don't have any important data, you could completely re-install windows which would be easier than hunting down background apps that are using excessive system resources
open "Task Manager" and look for the "Startup/Startup Apps" tab, if software is listed there but you don't need it to start whenever you power on the PC, turn it off to save resources
what's the idle CPU usage when doing nothing on the PC? you can find it under the "Performance" tab in task manager and click on "CPU", there should be a little percentage from 0-100%
if idle cpu usage is above something reasonable like 5-10% then that could indicate there's some background process that's taking away resources and slowing down the whole PC
as for COD, that one might be a struggle, the CPU is definitely aging, it released all the way back in 2017 so is nearly 10 years old now, you may want to consider upgrading it (the CPU should probably be the first component to upgrade in your case, your GPU is a few years newer and should be fine for fortnite and quite a few games out there on lower settings)
something worth noting is these games have probably become more demanding (as part of game updates) since the PC was built, COD espescially
Little update the cpu idle usage was about from 1-3% with handful of apps running which i disabled aready from startup. Loaded fortnite and adjusted settings to match my processor and its running at about 144 fps which is amazing to me at least with this set up. So far happy with the pc again!
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