So I have trouble with gaming since April, after the launch of GTA V my rig began to stop with the smooth performance and decided to give me stutters. I thought sending my gpu to the supplier might help. After doing that the card was claimed defect and I got a nice amount of cash back. So I decided to buy an MSI GTX 970, because it has amazing reviews and seems to handle every game you throw at it just fine. At first, GTA V ran fine on default settings (so most of the things on very high), but after some playing, the same fcking microstuttering apeared. At this point I just wanted to burn my pc, but that would result in a burnt house and maybe a burnt neighbourhood, so I stayed calm. What is noticable about the usage in GTA V by my CPU and GPU is that my CPU cores are around the 90 to 100% usage all the time (well it's very inconsistent, sometimes they drop to 40 or something), but my GPU, which from what I have heard needs to be around 100%, especially in a game as GTA V, got as low as 40% usage.
So it is either my CPU, PSU or Motherboard, because my SSD is fairly new, I checked my RAM yesterday, and the GPU is ehm.... new.
I want to know if my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU, or some other wizard shit is going on, thanks in advance!
---------------------------------------------- CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 @ 3.4Ghz GPU: MSI GTX 970 @ Stock RAM: 8GB DDR3 @Stock PSU: Cooler Master GX Lite 600W
MB: Asrock B75 Pro 3
Nothing it overclocked