Improving Performance: (My Setup) M18xR2, RTX3000, 3940XM, Dell S3222DGM Monitor, 32GB PC3L 14900 (1866mhz)

[jonv8944s]

I'm back again.  After my kid and I have gotten more heavily involved in PC gaming of Fortnite (dont flame me lol), he sees the clear difference between his rig and mine.  He understands why, but I am a little saddened about a few things I am hoping people can help me with.

 

My newer setup from alienware (2022 setup) has AWCC that allows me to just click Balance, Performance, and overdrive (I always do overdrive).  No such setup/software to make the M18xr2 'click button overclock' possible right?  I am not like you guys, trying to fine optimal overclocks and undervolting, etc, has never been my thing (for CPUs or GPUs), I tried but my abilities always fell short.

 

Here are my current issues:

 

1. I have an extreme 3940, but I'm not actually doing any overclocking, anything simple I could do?  I found that the 'built in' bios overclocks didnt quite work, often make it noticeably less stable.  (But I did nothing other than picking from the options, and never tweaked voltage or anything.

 

 

2. I did the RTX3000 upgrade (see old post) on here, and its working great, its literally the only way my son can even play fortnite on this system.  My issue is, for some reason it gets horribly slow performance when we put it on DirectX12, so instead he has to use the DirectX Performance setting in fortnite which I think is really just DirectX11 with things reduced.  Should that RTX3000 system if correctly configured work BETTER with Dx12, or no?

 

 

3. My sons gaming monitor using the MINI DP to DP plug is only pulling 2560x1440 60hz, BUT it says the MAXIMUM it can do is 2560x1440 165mhz, but that's NOT an option in the options: (Do I need to change the drivers Again?)

 

 

But it is capable of:

 

4. Should I over clock the RAM?  Is there any value?

This is what I bought from newegg:

 

Lastly, the current 'issues':

[sliderfra]

fortnite should be playable in dx12 mode, I think you need to tweak options a bit. With good tweaks, it almost as fast as "performance" but image is crisper.

For RAM tweaking, it's hard to get more than 1600Mhz (JEDEC timing) without using XMP in BIOS (need unlock bios), but with a potential risk of crash

I've never used AX210 on old spec AW can't help you