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Question PC is having a hard time making money while playing games.

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07-11-2026, 10:00 PM
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So I bought this PC a few weeks ago with an Intel i3-10100F and a GTX 1660 Super. It does not feel fast enough for the games. Here are some numbers from my tests: GeekBench shows 1,125 on single-core speed and 3,769 on multi-core (my multi-core score is way too low; I expected it to be between 4,000 and 4,100). On Timespy, my CPU gets 4,200 points and the GPU gets 5,700. The Cinebench scores are fine: single-core is 1,160 and multi-core is 5,574. I think the low multi-core score might be because I only have one 16GB stick instead of two separate sticks in dual channel mode. When playing Far Cry 5, I struggle to get a solid 60 FPS even though my CPU and GPU aren't at their maximum settings (no single core is fully used). The same thing happens with Forza Horizon 5: my GPU uses about 70-80% while the CPU only hits 60%, and frame rate stays below 60 FPS. Even lowering game graphics settings doesn't help because the hardware can handle the tasks perfectly fine. Comparing these scores to other systems like it is similar, but actual gameplay feels very different. My BIOS is at factory defaults, all drivers are updated from Gigabyte's website (on a H510m motherboard), and RAM is set to 2666MHz which is the max for an i3-10th gen processor. Windows is on its latest version and before I started playing games my CPU usage was only around 1% to 2%. Any fixes anyone knows?
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07-11-2026, 10:00 PM #1

So I bought this PC a few weeks ago with an Intel i3-10100F and a GTX 1660 Super. It does not feel fast enough for the games. Here are some numbers from my tests: GeekBench shows 1,125 on single-core speed and 3,769 on multi-core (my multi-core score is way too low; I expected it to be between 4,000 and 4,100). On Timespy, my CPU gets 4,200 points and the GPU gets 5,700. The Cinebench scores are fine: single-core is 1,160 and multi-core is 5,574. I think the low multi-core score might be because I only have one 16GB stick instead of two separate sticks in dual channel mode. When playing Far Cry 5, I struggle to get a solid 60 FPS even though my CPU and GPU aren't at their maximum settings (no single core is fully used). The same thing happens with Forza Horizon 5: my GPU uses about 70-80% while the CPU only hits 60%, and frame rate stays below 60 FPS. Even lowering game graphics settings doesn't help because the hardware can handle the tasks perfectly fine. Comparing these scores to other systems like it is similar, but actual gameplay feels very different. My BIOS is at factory defaults, all drivers are updated from Gigabyte's website (on a H510m motherboard), and RAM is set to 2666MHz which is the max for an i3-10th gen processor. Windows is on its latest version and before I started playing games my CPU usage was only around 1% to 2%. Any fixes anyone knows?

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07-11-2026, 10:27 PM
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You might actually do better with 2x8 or 16GB of dual-channel RAM. Could you tell me what kind of storage device you use? Some games aren't set up well for your setup and it's just possible the game engine itself has problems rather than yours.
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07-11-2026, 10:27 PM #2

You might actually do better with 2x8 or 16GB of dual-channel RAM. Could you tell me what kind of storage device you use? Some games aren't set up well for your setup and it's just possible the game engine itself has problems rather than yours.

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