Question about i5 7400

[Aquarius]

So i have an MSI Trident 3 Prebuilt with an i5 7400 and a 1060 3gb. Every time i play any game my CPU skyrockets and stays at 100% usage. I tend to get regular performance for the gpu i have but this has been going on for a year and it is really weird. My CPU also only turbos to 3300 mhz not 3500. I did upgrade my ram a couple of months ago and i had to go into bios but i didnt change anything. I feel like this may be bottlenecking my gou as it always ends up at around 70% usage but in some games it does reach the 90s. When playing COD Cold War specifically i cant hold a stable 60 fps at medium settings which i think is unconventional for the GPU have. Is there any setting i could have disabled that is harming my performance?

[Middcore]

100% usage in modern games from an old 4c/4t CPU isn't unusual.

 

It probably turbos lower because it's thermal throttling. 

[Tech87]

What kind of temps are you getting from the cpu in game?

[Aquarius]

35 minutes ago, Tech87 said:

What kind of temps are you getting from the cpu in game?

in very intensive games, high 70s low 80s. otherwise in the 70s or low 60s.

[Tech87]

I don't have an Intel chip myself, but I think temps in the 80s is high enough to thermal throttle the cpu down.

You can confirm this for certain by running a program such as hwinfo and then do a game session. Make sure to start the sensors.

 

Close the game and then pull up hwinfo, and under the CPU section, there's a thermal throttle sensor.

I would start with that, because if you can't hit your turbo of 3.5Ghz, that could be part of your issue.