Bottle necking and upgrading

[Ethan D.]

Hey guys, i was wondering if my cpu was bottlenecking my gpu at all. And if i upgraded to a i5 9600k it would help. I have a i5 9400 and a RTX 2060 Super. All i really do is play VR on my vive pro eye and sometimes the FPS drops on games that aren't exactly that hard to run on most systems.

[xenonhelix]

Your system is not bottlenecked by your CPU much at all, and upgrading your CPU at this point would be a waste of money. There might be something else affecting your performance. What settings are you trying to run these games on?

[Fakmykak]

It shouldn't be a bottleneck. And you will not gain much from a 9600k. The 9400 and 9600k both have the same amount of cores and threads, and the K chip is only running faster by a bit.

[Jimjamesjimothy8]

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[HadesCore]

best way to tell is have a session of VR with some monitoring software recording the data and when you get off, see if your cpu is hitting 100% usage and if your gpu isnt near 100% then it is a cpu bottleneck, but as previously stated, matching the 9400 and 2060 Super is fine, but maybe check your ram usage? do you have at least 16gb?

[Ethan D.]

Yes, I do have 16 GB, as for the settings, i cant go past 8 chunks in minecraft vr without lag on the highest setting, should i lower them?