What is my bottleneck?

[Snacko]

I just watched your 'Is Your Gaming Rig Being Bottlenecked??' video on Youtube.  And it made me wonder if I do have a bottleneck, and if I can get better FPS in DCS.

 

I'm guessing my bottleneck is my cpu.  I have not upgraded that in many years.  I have upgraded my gpu to a 1080TI almost 2 years ago.  But other than that, I have not upgraded anything else in about 4 years.

 

Here's my specs:

Windows 10 Home 64bit

Intel I7-6700K 4.00 ghz (OC'ed @ 4.8ghz) 

Asus Maximus VIII Extreme MB

G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3200

Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360MM

GeForce GTX 1080 TI 11gb

Corsair 850watt

C; 2x SanDisk 250gb(SSDs Raid0)  (Primary Games installed here)

D; Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB

E: 1x WD 1tb

F: 2x WD 300gb

3x Acer 28" monitors in nVidia Surround

1x 28" Touchscreen

 

 

I primarily play Digital Combat Simulator (DCS World) and get 30 fps on Medium settings.  From what I have read, DCS is GPU heavy.  It uses the GPU more than the CPU.  It usually maxes out my 1080TI at 100% usage and my CPU at about 50% usage.  It runs on 1 core.  I am running the game with it's "3 Screens" settings, which means it renders each monitor separately instead of one monitor and stretching the image(see attached image).  This looks significantly better as it is designed for triple screens and you can adjust the side monitor's angles.

 

I also use ASUS RAMCACHE, and allocate about 20 gig of my 64gb of memory to cache drive E.  I do have about 20 games on that drive.

 

Do you see any bottlenecks?  Or ways that I could improve my rig performance?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

[xAcid9]

10 minutes ago, Snacko said:

And it made me wonder if I do have a bottleneck

Every PC got their own bottleneck. 

 

Drop your CPU OC and if the FPS drop then you have "CPU bottleneck".
Also if your 1080 Ti GPU usage is below 90% then you're bottleneck by something, could be CPU/RAM or simply the game engine itself. 

[Firewrath9]

you're fine for now.