Bottleneck?

[vanish66]

Hi,

 

I got a friend who is running into some frame issues, he is running a core i5-7600 with a gtx 1080, it doesn’t look like he’s running into any temp issues, I’m thinking it’s a cpu bottle neck as he’s always running at almost 100% cpu usage at 1080p 

 

what do you think?

[JohanKjeldahl7]

Hey!

What games is he playing? How much % usage does he have on his GPU while his CPU is at 100%? Also, how many Watts does his PSU have?

[jaslion]

Well yeah 100% cpu usage is a clear sign that the cpu is the issue. What games are they running? For modern gaming a quad core non ht i5 is not enough.

[vanish66]

8 minutes ago, JohanKjeldahl7 said:

Hey!

What games is he playing? How much % usage does he have on his GPU while his CPU is at 100%? Also, how many Watts does his PSU have?

Hiya,

Um he is playing cod mw and bocw & some story games and stuff 

he is using around 20% on the gpu while playing

& 750watt

[vanish66]

7 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Well yeah 100% cpu usage is a clear sign that the cpu is the issue. What games are they running? For modern gaming a quad core non ht i5 is not enough.

Lots of different types of games, at the moment some Cold War & sometimes far cry and stuff, I was also thinking the cpu seems to be a little bit weak for the gpu 

 

[JohanKjeldahl7]

1 minute ago, vanish66 said:

Hiya,

Um he is playing cod mw and bocw & some story games and stuff 

he is using around 20% on the gpu while playing

& 750watt

Well if that is the case I can only agree with jasilon. This really sounds like a CPU Bottleneck to me.

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, vanish66 said:

Lots of different types of games, at the moment some Cold War & sometimes far cry and stuff, I was also thinking the cpu seems to be a little bit weak for the gpu 

 

The new cod and far cry are well too much for that i5. Nothing you can do but upgrade and I cannot recommend a 6700(k) or 7700(k) as they are really expensive and are only 8 threads which is next on the chopping block.

[JohanKjeldahl7]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

The new cod and far cry are well too much for that i5. Nothing you can do but upgrade and I cannot recommend a 6700(k) or 7700(k) as they are really expensive and are only 8 threads which is next on the chopping block.

Agreed defenetly. Maybe a Ryzen Zen 2 or i7-8700 but intel is very expensive, if you go with a Ryzen then you can probably use the new motherboard for future chips by AMD.

[jaslion]

6 minutes ago, JohanKjeldahl7 said:

Agreed defenetly. Maybe a Ryzen Zen 2 or i7-8700 but intel is very expensive, if you go with a Ryzen then you can probably use the new motherboard for future chips by AMD.

Why those old cpu's? You can get better new stuff for as much if not cheaper.

[JohanKjeldahl7]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Why those old cpu's? You can get better new stuff for as much if not cheaper.

Thats right, he could technically go for a new Ryzen 5000 series, but I think the older Ryzen are cheaper if I am correct and if the older Ryzen do not have a bottleneck problem with the 1080 - I would go for it. But of course buying a newer chip would be better in many ways. Especially if he wants to upgrade his GPU in the future. 

[vanish66]

7 hours ago, JohanKjeldahl7 said:

Thats right, he could technically go for a new Ryzen 5000 series, but I think the older Ryzen are cheaper if I am correct and if the older Ryzen do not have a bottleneck problem with the 1080 - I would go for it. But of course buying a newer chip would be better in many ways. Especially if he wants to upgrade his GPU in the future. 

 

7 hours ago, jaslion said:

Why those old cpu's? You can get better new stuff for as much if not cheaper.

Thank you both of you! You guys are legends, exactly what I thought too. I have suggested to him that maybe he should

Upgrade to an amd 3000 or 5000 series, preferably 5000 cause of the ipc uplift and gaming performance increase.