Do I have a bottleneck?

[Panda305]

Good evening everyone, it’s my first post here :). I need help. I’m a streamer on twitch, I upgraded my pc throughout a year and a half to now that I have an i9 9900k 24GB of RAM Seasonic focus 750 80+ platinum PSU and an RTX 2070 gaming x twin frozr 8gb. I recently purchased Watch Dogs Legion. I was noticing my cpu usage was low but gpu would spike to 100 on any setting. I monitor it with HWMonitor and supposedly I have high gpu usage. But my temps are fine. No problem there. But I started doing research and they say it’s an option that I’m bottlenecking. Idk how to find out or what to do. I invested a lot of money in this rig cause I’m working to do twitch long term. 
 

sorry for the long message. 
any help will be appreciated and helpful:)

[Fasauceome]

if your GPU can't keep up, you do need an upgrade. Do you play at 1440p 144Hz?

[bellabichon]

8 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

if your GPU can't keep up, you do need an upgrade.

I agree, but it's worth noting that Watch Dogs: Legion is a pretty terribly optimized game, and so it shouldn't necessarily be used as a test to tell if you should upgrade. 

[Wheresmehammer]

Watchdogs Legion saps everything from all CPU's and drops GPU usage on all GPU's that are around 2070 or higher level.

 

 

[Panda305]

22 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

if your GPU can't keep up, you do need an upgrade. Do you play at 1440p 144Hz?

I play at 1080p. If I have to upgrade, what can I upgrade to. 3080 it’s hard to buy so is 3070

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, Panda305 said:

I play at 1080p. If I have to upgrade, what can I upgrade to. 3080 it’s hard to buy so is 3070

AMD RX 6800 or RX 6800 XT might be a good pick, once the benchmarks come out it might have some really good watch dogs performance.

[Panda305]

5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

AMD RX 6800 or RX 6800 XT might be a good pick, once the benchmarks come out it might have some really good watch dogs performance.

Is the RX 6800 better than the 30 series ?

[Fasauceome]

6 minutes ago, Panda305 said:

Is the RX 6800 better than the 30 series ?

The RX 6800 is poised to be a 3070 competitor, $80 more and AMD claims it is better. AMD says the 6800 XT is about the same as the 3080, supposed to cost like $50 less or something. Then there's the 6900 XT, meant to compete with the 3090 except like $500 cheaper (close to 1000 USD) but we'll see where that ends up.

 

Nvidia cards are super popular, AMD cards have a chance to get sold out less quickly, although with how popular this release is, might be also hard to get. November 18th is when they are released, I hope you can get your hands on one.

[Wheresmehammer]

I would hold off of buying a Radeon straight away, they are notorious for driver problems but will generally have stability patches later.

[Panda305]

Oh alright. But can I still stream other less heavy games. Or I have to stop streaming till then

[Panda305]

or i can play on lower graphic settings?

 

[eeeee1]

2 hours ago, Panda305 said:

24GB

tell me this isnt a typo?

 

[Panda305]

2 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

tell me this isnt a typo?

 

no i bought a pre built and started there. i only bought 16gb (2x8) i have to finish to get 32 

[eeeee1]

Just now, Panda305 said:

no i bought a pre built and started there. i only bought 16gb (2x8) i have to finish to get 32 

then this may be it. while i don't know to much about bottlenecks, i am fairly certain that i have seen people confirm that unusual ram configs can be a bottle neck

[eeeee1]

2 minutes ago, Panda305 said:

no i bought a pre built and started there. i only bought 16gb (2x8) i have to finish to get 32 

try to remove what i am assuming to be a extra 8 gig stick then try again

[Grabhanem]

2 minutes ago, Panda305 said:

no i bought a pre built and started there. i only bought 16gb (2x8) i have to finish to get 32 

If I understand memory controllers correctly (which could be totally wrong) 3 sticks will usually fall back to single channel, so it might be worth taking out the odd stick to get dual channel.

[Panda305]

9 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

then this may be it. while i don't know to much about bottlenecks, i am fairly certain that i have seen people confirm that unusual ram configs can be a bottle neck

 

8 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

If I understand memory controllers correctly (which could be totally wrong) 3 sticks will usually fall back to single channel, so it might be worth taking out the odd stick to get dual channel.

oh ok or do i just buy a set of 2 new sticks? if thats not the problem, do i have to stop streaming and playing games until i ressolve the bottle neck? or can i just lower the settings on the games and still be able to stream ? itll suck to have to stop streaming and gaming

 

[eeeee1]

Just now, Panda305 said:

 

oh ok or do i just buy a set of 2 new sticks? if thats not the problem, do i have to stop streaming and playing games until i ressolve the bottle neck? or can i just lower the settings on the games and still be able to stream ? itll suck to have to stop streaming and gaming

 

no.

all i said was to get your ram amount to a sorta "normal" amount like 8, 16, 32, etc

once that is done, try running your games again

[Panda305]

oh ok, ill try that out 

[eeeee1]

1 minute ago, Panda305 said:

oh ok, ill try that out 

oh yeah and make sure that you run it in dual channel with your newly bought sticks.

[Panda305]

1 minute ago, eeeee1 said:

oh yeah and make sure that you run it in dual channel with your newly bought sticks.

whats dual channel ?

[eeeee1]

Just now, Panda305 said:

whats dual channel ?

run them in the right slots. like A2 and B2 (i think)

[Panda305]

oh ok 

[LogicalDrm]

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