CPU Bottleneck?

[TotiJr]

Ok, so I've been noticing for a time now, that my CPU has been always holding me back a bit, I've been noticing that the CPU tends to hover around 100% or close, in more than a few games, like Rainbow Six and even Apex Legends, and anywhere from 10-30% on a normal workload. and now its been worse since I moved from a GTX 1070 to a RTX 2080, this is what I believe is a severe case of bottlenecking due to my CPU only being an I5-6500. If someone could correct me if I am wrong? If I am right does anyone have any good suggestions as to what CPU I should switch to?

 

I also just got a 144hz monitor with G-sync and although it is performing great, at 1080P on high-medium settings I'm hovering around 100hz in games like rainbow and apex? I would say that this is normal because 144hz is not easily achieved on high settings, but I'm always seeing the CPU is on 100% load and my GPU will be on like 30-50% load?? Everything is being monitored through the task manager, maybe it is just inaccurate? Would like to hear others experienced opinions.

 

I just replaced the thermal paste, because I actually moved my whole PC, I don't have excessive PC programs running on startup or in the background. And my temps are normal.

Socket is LGA 1151 so I'd need one of those CPU's that fit that socket, anyone have any good recommendations? Kind of running in the blind and don't wanna waste a few hundred dollars on just a minor increase in performance. Also my motherboard is not overclockable for the CPU, so that's kind of outta of the question unless I were to spend another 100$ on a new one.

 

PC Specs:

Motherboard: MSI H170A Gaming Pro

CPU: Intel Core I5-6500

GPU: RTX 2080 8GB

RAM: 2x8 GB 2133Mhz DDR4

PSU: 750W

 

 

[3 Lions]

Yep the CPU is causing a bottleneck, try and find a used i7 6700 or i7 7700 (BIOS update required) on Ebay. 

Edited March 3, 2019 by LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo

[xg32]

4 minutes ago, TotiJr said:

Ok, so I've been noticing for a time now, that my CPU has been always holding me back a bit, I've been noticing that the CPU tends to hover around 100% or close, in more than a few games, like Rainbow Six and even Apex Legends, and anywhere from 10-30% on a normal workload. and now its been worse since I moved from a GTX 1070 to a RTX 2080, this is what I believe is a severe case of bottlenecking due to my CPU only being an I5-6500. If someone could correct me if I am wrong? If I am right does anyone have any good suggestions as to what CPU I should switch to?

 

I also just got a 144hz monitor with G-sync and although it is performing great, at 1080P on high-medium settings I'm hovering around 100hz in games like rainbow and apex? I would say that this is normal because 144hz is not easily achieved on high settings, but I'm always seeing the CPU is on 100% load and my GPU will be on like 30-50% load?? Everything is being monitored through the task manager, maybe it is just inaccurate? Would like to hear others experienced opinions.

 

I just replaced the thermal paste, because I actually moved my whole PC, I don't have excessive PC programs running on startup or in the background. And my temps are normal.

Socket is LGA 1151 so I'd need one of those CPU's that fit that socket, anyone have any good recommendations? Kind of running in the blind and don't wanna waste a few hundred dollars on just a minor increase in performance. Also my motherboard is not overclockable for the CPU, so that's kind of outta of the question unless I were to spend another 100$ on a new one.

 

PC Specs:

Motherboard: MSI H170A Gaming Pro

CPU: Intel Core I5-6500

GPU: RTX 2080 8GB

RAM: 2x8 GB 2133Mhz DDR4

PSU: 750W

 

 

thats a massive bottleneck, more like 50%

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'd still see no harm in getting an i7-6700K or i7-7700K if your motherboard is compatible with Kaby Lake since the base clocks are much higher than the non-K versions.

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

I'd still see no harm in getting an i7-6700K or i7-7700K if your motherboard is compatible with Kaby Lake since the base clocks are much higher than the non-K versions.

See that's how they get ya, the turbo speeds are actually almost the same, especially the all core which means gaming performance is unaffected.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, xg32 said:

thats a massive bottleneck, more like 50%

Do you mean a 50% bottleneck? What specifically is that figure supposed to represent?

[xg32]

Just now, fasauceome said:

Do you mean a 50% bottleneck? What specifically is that figure supposed to represent?

i just meant a 50% gpu usage on AAA games, mere approximation, but i just can't imagine putting a 6500 with a 2080.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

See that's how they get ya, the turbo speeds are actually almost the same, especially the all core which means gaming performance is unaffected.

Well, I'll give you there's a 300MHz difference which is like 10%.

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Well, I'll give you there's a 300MHz difference which is like 10%.

NVM, the turbo was higher than i thought. The 8700 and the 8700k share a turbo of 4.3.

[TotiJr]

So what would you guys recommend, upgrade to an I7 or I7k, I had the idea that i would only be able to use the K if my board was able to overclock it?