Azilis

@shindig said:

I don't know if he beat it, but Ben got pretty far in Sekiro. I'd expect him to bring it up. Outer Wilds will pretty much just have Vinny fighting for it unless some others get through it (Abby has mentioned she's playing it), but if they're rushing through it for GOTY discussions, I can't imagine it making a great impression.

Before you buy a $1200 GPU, I'd make sure to eliminate other possible problems first. A gtx1060 is about equivalent (a little better than) my R9 290x, and after upgrading my CPU last year, I was able to get 60fps in the majority of games at 1080p (sometimes needed to lower a few graphics settings, but not too much). If you have the money to spend, you can't do better than a 2080 ti, but a 2070 super or an RX 5700 XT (if you don't care about ray-tracing) would set you up for years of good 1440p gaming for around $700 less.

RAM can be tricky. A few weeks ago I ran the benchmark program from userbenchmark.com and realized that my RAM was performing really poorly. I hadn't enabled DOCP (my motherboard's equivalent of XMP) and I realized I had my RAM installed in the 1st 2 slots instead of the 2nd and 4th, which is recommended. Completely fixed my RAM problem that I wasn't even previously aware of. In your situation, did you simply add 32GB of RAM to 32GB you were already using? Are you sure the new RAM has the exact same specs as the old RAM? If not, that can cause issues. As someone already recommended, I'd try removing the new RAM and just running the old RAM to see if that fixes anything.

Anyway, if your PC is running worse than it was before the upgrades, something is wrong and a hugely better video card will only be compensating for the problem.