Gpu usage low on brand new computer

[ODD_BOX307]

Hey so just got a new pc big upgrades from my last my specs are i7 9700F rtx 2070 super 600 watt psu 16 gb ram I booted up some games test it out and I’m getting 40-50 percent gpu and 70-80 percent cpu I am super confused why I went into nvidia control panel switched to high performance even went to the regular control panel and went to balanced and made sure pci express was power saver was off I’m really confused and need help

[boggy77]

well if cpu is 70-80 percent, it sounds like the game is cpu intensive and it's being limited by the cpu, not gpu. the gpu would happily push more frames, but the  cpu struggles. what game is this and what fps are you getting. do you have a similar issue in other games as well?

[Mateyyy]

What PSU model is it? Are you running single or dual channel memory? What resolution are you playing on and in what games do you see this happen?

[ODD_BOX307]

2 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

What PSU model is it? Are you running single or dual channel memory? What resolution are you playing on and in what games do you see this happen?

I’ve played insurgency sandstone which isn’t too optimized he’ll let loose and rising storm 2 Vietnam played at 1080p there’s only two ram slots both are 8gb ram sticks

[ODD_BOX307]

6 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

well if cpu is 70-80 percent, it sounds like the game is cpu intensive and it's being limited by the cpu, not gpu. the gpu would happily push more frames, but the  cpu struggles. what game is this and what fps are you getting. do you have a similar issue in other games as well?

Insurgency sandstorm, he’ll let loose and rising storm 2 Vietnam 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, ODD_BOX307 said:

there’s only two ram slots

Uh Oh, cheap motherboard alert. Have you checked to see if your CPU is turboing correctly?

 

A pcpartpicker spec list helps

[boggy77]

do you have xmp enabled?

[ODD_BOX307]

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

do you have xmp enabled?

Don’t know what that is

[boggy77]

ram overclocking profile, to get your ram to run at the rated speed. you'll find it in bios, just need to tick enable, nothing else

[ODD_BOX307]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Uh Oh, cheap motherboard alert. Have you checked to see if your CPU is turboing correctly?

 

A pcpartpicker spec list helps

I mean I looked at it once in task manger and it was up at 4.5 ghz I mean even at one point while I was playing The cpu went to 100 percent which is crazy 

[BarackOBatman]

Be sure to check to make sure you dont have framerate limiter or Vsync enabled in the game settings.

Edit: Maybe try a benchmark like unigine superposition and see if it hits 100% there.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, ODD_BOX307 said:

I mean I looked at it once in task manger and it was up at 4.5 ghz I mean even at one point while I was playing The cpu went to 100 percent which is crazy 

Don't use task manager to check frequency because it doesn't always report correctly.

 

 

[ODD_BOX307]

2 minutes ago, BarackOBatman said:

Be sure to check to make sure you dont have framerate limiter or Vsync enabled in the game settings.

Edit: Maybe try a benchmark like unigine superposition and see if it hits 100% there.

And if it does hit 100 percent what could be the problem with the games then

[ODD_BOX307]

3 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Don't use task manager to check frequency because it doesn't always report correctly.

 

How should I check 

[BarackOBatman]

2 minutes ago, ODD_BOX307 said:

And if it does hit 100 percent what could be the problem with the games then

Most likely yes.

I recommend MSI afterburner for system resource usage monitoring if you don't already use it.

EDIT: could be something like drivers also

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, ODD_BOX307 said:

5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Don't use task manager to check frequency because it doesn't always report correctly.

 

How should I check 

I usually use hardwaremonitor

[ODD_BOX307]

1 minute ago, BarackOBatman said:

Most likely yes.

I recommend MSI afterburner for system resource usage monitoring if you don't already use it.

EDIT: could be something like drivers also

I did make sure my drivers where updated but idk I wasn’t sure if I like maybe did set something up right or

[ODD_BOX307]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

I usually use hardwaremonitor

I’ll try that thanks

[BarackOBatman]

1 minute ago, ODD_BOX307 said:

I did make sure my drivers where updated but idk I wasn’t sure if I like maybe did set something up right or

First i'd check into other possibilities like game settings. And try and get 100% usage our something else like a benchmark, but...

Even with fresh and current drivers, i have had issues. Its not likely, but it is possible.

Here's an old thread where I ran into this issue and how i went about resolving it.

 

[ODD_BOX307]

2 minutes ago, BarackOBatman said:

First i'd check into other possibilities like game settings. And try and get 100% usage our something else like a benchmark, but...

Even with fresh and current drivers, i have had issues. Its not likely, but it is possible.

Here's an old thread where I ran into this issue and how i went about resolving it.

 

Okay thanks

[BarackOBatman]

5 minutes ago, ODD_BOX307 said:

Okay thanks

You're welcome!

Could also be turbo or bios setting issue like Fasauceome suggested.

So many possible culprits for the same issue.