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CPU/GPU Usage troubleshooting

NaniSalmon
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Hi all,

 

I recently got Call of Duty Cold War and i realized that when i'm playing, neither of my CPU or GPU run at 100%. They are both around 80ish percents. I still get decent frames (60 to 100) with my Ryzen 5 1600x and a RTX 2070 Super but i'm aiming for 144 casue my monitor can do it. I know the CPU is a couple generation old but I was wondering what you guys thing would be the issue. I'll list bellow the part list of my build. I've had the same issue ages ago with an FX-8350 and the CPU wasn't just keeping up cause it was so old. Might be the same problem? I'm trying to get a Ryzen 5600X just for a general upgrade but if y'all tell me that the CPU is my actual problem that would make me feel less dumb :D

 

Complete build :

Ryzen 5 1600x + H150i Pro (cooling)

RTX 2070 Super

16GB TridentZ 3200MHz

ROG Strix B350-F Gaming

Corsair RX750m

Plenty of cooling fans

 

PS : Yes ray-tracing is off, yes motion blur is off, yes setting in Nvidia control panel are for max performance, yes drivers are up to date.

 

Tahnks all.

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Yes the CPU is the problem. 1st gen Ryzen is not the greatest for gaming, and the only reason it's not at 100% useage is because likely 1 or 2 cores are sitting almost at idle because the game won't use them. The rest of your system is more than good enough for a 2070 Super.

 

Just keep in mind, you'd also need a new mobo for a 5600X. B350 won't support Zen3.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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6 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Yes the CPU is the problem. 1st gen Ryzen is not the greatest for gaming, and the only reason it's not at 100% useage is because likely 1 or 2 cores are sitting almost at idle because the game won't use them. The rest of your system is more than good enough for a 2070 Super.

 

Just keep in mind, you'd also need a new mobo for a 5600X. B350 won't support Zen3.

Yeah I planned to get either a B450, 550 or X series depending on wich one is the best match for it. I kinda got lost with the new architectures and wich board supports what. If you have any mobo recommendation for a 5600x I'm more than open to listen to it.

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1 minute ago, NaniSalmon said:

Yeah I planned to get either a B450, 550 or X series depending on wich one is the best match for it. I kinda got lost with the new architectures and wich board supports what. If you have any mobo recommendation for a 5600x I'm more than open to listen to it.

The 5600X will run just fine on really any B550 / X570 board, as It's only a 65W part. If you plan on overclocking, i'd get something slightly higher-end like a MSI B550/X570 Tomahawk, or the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro (or V2), which i use for my 5600X.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

The 5600X will run just fine on really any B550 / X570 board, as It's only a 65W part. If you plan on overclocking, i'd get something slightly higher-end like a MSI B550/X570 Tomahawk, or the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro (or V2), which i use for my 5600X.

Gotcha, I don't really do any thing more than gaming and school work on my PC. I don't think I'll need to overclock it. Thanks a lot for the info and tips!

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1 minute ago, NaniSalmon said:

Gotcha, I don't really do any thing more than gaming and school work on my PC. I don't think I'll need to overclock it. Thanks a lot for the info and tips!

In this case i'd recommend the MSI B550-A Pro. It's a solid entry level board that has everything you'd need and is affordable.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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4 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

In this case i'd recommend the MSI B550-A Pro. It's a solid entry level board that has everything you'd need and is affordable.

That looks like a sweet board. Not too expensive either that's very great. While qe're here, I have two 1TB SSDs mixed with a windows pool to make one logical drive of 2 TB. Do you know if changing the mobo and disconencting the drives will fuck everything up? I only have games on it so it's not a big deal if it crases but i'd like to avoid it.

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36 minutes ago, NaniSalmon said:

That looks like a sweet board. Not too expensive either that's very great. While qe're here, I have two 1TB SSDs mixed with a windows pool to make one logical drive of 2 TB. Do you know if changing the mobo and disconencting the drives will fuck everything up? I only have games on it so it's not a big deal if it crases but i'd like to avoid it.

Sorry, i don't have any experience with this stuff. But when changing platforms like from B350 to B550 i'd recommend to do a full windows reinstall anyways to avoid as many problems as possible.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

Sorry, i don't have any experience with this stuff. But when changing platforms like from B350 to B550 i'd recommend to do a full windows reinstall anyways to avoid as many problems as possible.

My windows is on a completely diffent NVME M.2 drive. I have this one, one 2TB HDD and 2 1TB SSDs in a pool config. My Windows should be fine.

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