Bottlenecking??

[whoislost]

About a two to three months ago I decided to build my PC instead of buying a pre built one cause I've had some very unfortunate experiences with them....

 

I eventually finished building it in September and its been working great, I'm Very proud of it, but just recently I've been paying attention to the performance graphs and I've been seeing something strange

Now I'm not the most experienced person in tech (I watched LTT's "First Person View PC BUILD Guide!" for help) so I'm not sure if this is what bottlenecking is:

 

Whenever I play games my CPU (3700x) is at 80-90% usage, while my GPU (RTX 2070S) is just chilling at 15-26% usage, is this what bottlenecking is? and if so is there anything I can do about this?

[Skiiwee29]

Task manager is horrible for monitoring system usage. Use GPU-Z to monitor your GPU usage and information. 

[Vishera]

Just now, whoislost said:

Whenever I play games my CPU (3700x) is at 80-90% usage

Why would a 8 core 16 threads processor be at 80%~90% while gaming? - That's strange

Even my 6 core processor doesn't do that,even at CPU intensive games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Just now, whoislost said:

I eventually finished building it in September and its been working great, I'm Very proud of it, but just recently

Could be malware or some background task.

[whoislost]

5 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Why would a 8 core 16 threads processor be at 80%~90% while gaming? - That's strange

Even my 6 core processor doesn't do that,even at CPU intensive games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Could be malware or some background task.

The only game I'm really ever playing is just doom eternal, tho sometimes I will have something like Firefox open to listen to something while I play, but it usually doesn't matter because regardless of whether its just A game open or A game and 1 tab on Firefox CPU is (from what task manager says) at 90% usage, tho I'll see if there is another app for monitoring performance

[Grabhanem]

What games are you running?

 

Also, do you have XMP enabled? Task Manager sometimes misreports speeds, but it might be worth checking that your memory is running at the proper speed.

[whoislost]

10 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

What games are you running?

 

The main game I run I Doom Eternal, and sometimes Rust and BO2

14 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

Also, do you have XMP enabled?

I don’t have that enabled and frankly I have no idea how XMP really works

[Vishera]

25 minutes ago, whoislost said:

The only game I'm really ever playing is just doom eternal, tho sometimes I will have something like Firefox open to listen to something while I play, but it usually doesn't matter because regardless of whether its just A game open or A game and 1 tab on Firefox CPU is (from what task manager says) at 90% usage, tho I'll see if there is another app for monitoring performance

A screenshot from the "Details" tab would be helpful.

[Grabhanem]

16 minutes ago, whoislost said:

The main game I run I Doom Eternal, and sometimes Rust and BO2

I don’t have that enabled and frankly I have no idea how XMP really works

XMP allows you to run your memory at its rated speed instead of the default speed for DDR4, which is 2133. It can be enabled by looking for the XMP/DOCP dropdown in BIOS. It shouldn't have a major effect on your CPU usage, but it will substantially improve your framerates.

[whoislost]

23 minutes ago, Vishera said:

A screenshot from the "Details" tab would be helpful.

[whoislost]

23 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

XMP allows you to run your memory at its rated speed instead of the default speed for DDR4, which is 2133. It can be enabled by looking for the XMP/DOCP dropdown in BIOS. It shouldn't have a major effect on your CPU usage, but it will substantially improve your framerates.

I’ll definitely be looking more into that!