Whats the bottleneck Here?

[jjjackkiller11]

I've got an i5 3570 and a gtx960 but i only got enough to with get a better CPU or GPU but don't know which is the main bottleneck any ideas?

[Enderman]

Open up task manager and MSI afterburner and see if your CPU cores or your GPU usage is at a higher percentage.

[MrFoxyCracker]

Personally I would say, it depends on the type of games that you play. If you play CPU intensive games, CPU, if you play GPU intensive games, GPU. if it's a mixture, likely it's best to get a new GPU.

[Princess Luna]

I got asked what was the bottleneck by this guy... it was his cooler lol... so yeah we need far more data to know what is capping your performance.

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, jjjackkiller11 said:

I've got an i5 3570 and a gtx960 but i only got enough to with get a better CPU or GPU but don't know which is the main bottleneck any ideas?

It depends on the game and how that game uses the processor. If you're close to hitting 100% on all of your cores, you should definitely upgrade the CPU. If you are noticing something like all cores having the same amount of load (like all cores are about 50%), then you have a single threaded performance issue and depending on how much this annoys you, you'll have to upgrade.

 

However, I generally feel you should upgrade the GPU until improvements no longer show up. But that depends on how long until you can get a new system too (but then you have to consider the flipside: you get a new system, but what about your GPU performance?)

[ARikozuM]

Full specs? 

Resolution and frame-rate of your monitor?

What games do you play mostly?