i7-9700K bottlenecking

[ElectricPichu]

So yea as the title says, I have a CPU bottleneck thing. My CPU is paired with an RTX 2070 and when I go into battlefield 2042 my CPU sits at 100% all the time while my GPU is 50-70%.
Tried overclocking CPU up to 4.7GHZ, Didn't help.
Tried Resting my pc, didn't help.

CPU temps are about 60-70c in game high settings.
fps is horrible with 50-40fps while other people with worse systems getting better fps than me.

I remember trying to play cyberpunk about a month ago and I had a CPU bottleneck there as well.

GPU was 0-20% while CPU was always 99% or so.

PC specs:

Gigabyte z390ud.
I7-9700k.

Corsair h60 (2018) AIO.

Gigabyte RTX 2070.

16gb single channel 2666mhz ram.

Corsair 650w PSU.

3 SSD.

*provided an image from Nvidia's performance overlay while playing battlefield 2042.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, ElectricPichu said:

16gb single channel 2666mhz ram.

 

Found the issue for you

sell that stick, get 2 3200mhz sticks of 8gb

[SavageNeo]

5 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Found the issue for you

sell that stick, get 2 3200mhz sticks of 8gb

might be part of the issue, @ElectricPichuwould be nice if you can monitor your ram usage. might be just the ram amount for cyberpunk and new BF adn the ram speed and singlke channel

[iMxmo]

16 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Found the issue for you

sell that stick, get 2 3200mhz sticks of 8gb

Vouch. here are some cheap US 3200C16 2x8 kits. (got kits of the SPG, hopefully going to be finishing those two builds tmrw. should have no problem running xmp)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hPfnTW
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P4FKHx

[ElectricPichu]

17 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

might be part of the issue, @ElectricPichuwould be nice if you can monitor your ram usage. might be just the ram amount for cyberpunk and new BF adn the ram speed and singlke channel

I think this is it. after a 15 min game session was 80% the whole game. Max was 84%.
Discord was up in the background in a call no screen share and was minimized.
Had nothing turned on, only origin which is required ofc.

[YoungBlade]

I know OEMs often use just one stick, but I assume it's because they're sadistic and get off on the idea of crippling the performance of otherwise good gaming CPUs. They laugh as those poor, defenseless systems are boxed up and shipped out to unsuspecting customers who will suffer from low framerates and terrible stuttering. Customers who will curse their hardware and blame the core components, while the CPU and graphics card toil away, desperately trying to live up to their potential, only to be stopped by that single, lonely stick of underspecced memory. They never stood a chance...

 

But you can do better than those multi-billion dollar companies. Yes, you! You can unshackle your system and let it live the life it was meant to. Get two sticks of faster RAM, install them, and rejoice along with your components as they can finally deliver the performance they're capable of!

 

TL;DR - Please get dual channel memory for your computer

[Mister Woof]

11 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

I know OEMs often use just one stick, but I assume it's because they're sadistic and get off on the idea of crippling the performance of otherwise good gaming CPUs. They laugh as those poor, defenseless systems are boxed up and shipped out to unsuspecting customers who will suffer from low framerates and terrible stuttering. Customers who will curse their hardware and blame the core components, while the CPU and graphics card toil away, desperately trying to live up to their potential, only to be stopped by that single, lonely stick of underspecced memory. They never stood a chance...

 

But you can do better than those multi-billion dollar companies. Yes, you! You can unshackle your system and let it live the life it was meant to. Get two sticks of faster RAM, install them, and rejoice along with your components as they can finally deliver the performance they're capable of!

 

TL;DR - Please get dual channel memory for your computer

I get the feeling you also watch Dawid Does Tech Stuff

[ElectricPichu]

31 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

I know OEMs often use just one stick, but I assume it's because they're sadistic and get off on the idea of crippling the performance of otherwise good gaming CPUs. They laugh as those poor, defenseless systems are boxed up and shipped out to unsuspecting customers who will suffer from low framerates and terrible stuttering. Customers who will curse their hardware and blame the core components, while the CPU and graphics card toil away, desperately trying to live up to their potential, only to be stopped by that single, lonely stick of underspecced memory. They never stood a chance...

 

But you can do better than those multi-billion dollar companies. Yes, you! You can unshackle your system and let it live the life it was meant to. Get two sticks of faster RAM, install them, and rejoice along with your components as they can finally deliver the performance they're capable of!

 

TL;DR - Please get dual channel memory for your computer

lol.
just my question is u guys think my ram is the problem?
I have no problem upgrading to 2x16gb 3200mhz just want to also fix my issue...

[YoungBlade]

2 hours ago, Mister Woof said:

I get the feeling you also watch Dawid Does Tech Stuff

I do, and it's possible that my reaction to seeing a system with only one stick of RAM was colored by that. I remember the video where he upgraded that Dell with the "premium, luxury cooler" and explained, in utter exasperation, that yes, the single 16GB stick of RAM was also a problem, and once more did a run of his gaming benchmarks to illustrate the point.

 

Although to be fair, Steve from Gamers Nexus has also had some pretty good reactions to finding just one stick of RAM in expensive pre-builts, and their Hitman 2 test does a pretty good job of illustrating just how bad that decision can be. It could've been that, too.

[Mister Woof]

9 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

I do, and it's possible that my reaction to seeing a system with only one stick of RAM was colored by that. I remember the video where he upgraded that Dell with the "premium, luxury cooler" and explained, in utter exasperation, that yes, the single 16GB stick of RAM was also a problem, and once more did a run of his gaming benchmarks to illustrate the point.

 

Although to be fair, Steve from Gamers Nexus has also had some pretty good reactions to finding just one stick of RAM in expensive pre-builts, and their Hitman 2 test does a pretty good job of illustrating just how bad that decision can be. It could've been that, too.

Steve does too, but the adjectives give it away. Dawid loves to say stuff like that about single channel RAM, lol

Dawid is probably my most favorite tech-related youtuber these days.

GN for information, but a lot of it is a little too sensationalized with his exposés lately. 

 

HUB for easily digestible information.

 

I don't really watch LTT much anymore, same with Jayztwocents. 

 

But Dawid is straight up laughs 

 

OP:

I agree that single channel memory is negatively affecting your performance. Get your typical kit of dual channel memory and it will be better.

[xg32]

8 hours ago, ElectricPichu said:

lol.
just my question is u guys think my ram is the problem?
I have no problem upgrading to 2x16gb 3200mhz just want to also fix my issue...

ur ram is definitely part of the problem, though i wouldn't be surprised if 2042 fills up a 9700k anyway, single sticks as a rule of thumb slows down the cpu by 30-40%.

 

though in ur case, it's very likely it's just a single channel/speed issue with anything under 90fps as long as ur gpu isn't 100%

 

I should really fire up the beta to see how bad it is lol...

[xg32]

On 10/8/2021 at 10:46 AM, ElectricPichu said:

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reporting back, this is on a 9900k with HT disabled at 5.1 and 4 sticks of ram @1440p/98hz on high~ with TAA.

 

on map loads cpu was 100%, walking around the map was 50-60% cpu usage, in fights explosions 70-80% cpu usage with dips to 85fps (gpu bound), slight stutter every minute or so that i didnt bother troubleshooting.

 

The game is very demanding on the cpu, 2 sticks will definitely help, but it's not guaranteed to solve all the problems. Based on what i'm seeing running single channel would indeed make ur fps dip to 50-60fps

 

 

[ElectricPichu]

24 minutes ago, xg32 said:

reporting back, this is on a 9900k with HT disabled at 5.1 and 4 sticks of ram @1440p/98hz on high~ with TAA.

 

on map loads cpu was 100%, walking around the map was 50-60% cpu usage, in fights explosions 70-80% cpu usage with dips to 85fps (gpu bound), slight stutter every minute or so that i didnt bother troubleshooting.

 

The game is very demanding on the cpu, 2 sticks will definitely help, but it's not guaranteed to solve all the problems. Based on what i'm seeing running single channel would indeed make ur fps dip to 50-60fps

 

 

Ok Thx for reporting.
Ill probably buy new ram closer to black Friday, Thx for the help.
Before I go last question:
Thinking about getting the G skill trident z 2x16gb sticks 3200mhz, are they good?

[xg32]

47 minutes ago, ElectricPichu said:

Ok Thx for reporting.
Ill probably buy new ram closer to black Friday, Thx for the help.
Before I go last question:
Thinking about getting the G skill trident z 2x16gb sticks 3200mhz, are they good?

gskill in general has the best compatibility, currently i'd recommend these

 

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232907?Description=gskill 2x16 cl16 3600&cm_re=gskill_2x16 cl16 3600-_-20-232-907-_-Product&quicklink=true

 

if you don't wanna spend the extra 40 or so bucks then cl16 3200 is fine, dual channel is the big bump

 

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232091?Description=gskill 2x16 cl16 3200&cm_re=gskill_2x16 cl16 3200-_-20-232-091-_-Product

 

tridentz is 5dollars more atm if looks matter

 

Edit, lowering textures from ultra to high fixed the stuttering

[ElectricPichu]

1 hour ago, xg32 said:

gskill in general has the best compatibility, currently i'd recommend these

 

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232907?Description=gskill 2x16 cl16 3600&cm_re=gskill_2x16 cl16 3600-_-20-232-907-_-Product&quicklink=true

 

if you don't wanna spend the extra 40 or so bucks then cl16 3200 is fine, dual channel is the big bump

 

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232091?Description=gskill 2x16 cl16 3200&cm_re=gskill_2x16 cl16 3200-_-20-232-091-_-Product

 

tridentz is 5dollars more atm if looks matter

 

Edit, lowering textures from ultra to high fixed the stuttering

ah I see.
I just checked the 3600mhz one in my country and I saw there are two ver. available
one with 14 latency and one with 19

(cl14 and cl19)
I understand the 14 one is better but what does it actually mean and how much of a difference is there between them
cause ofc I can see the price differences lol.
thx again
small edit: I am talking about the ripjaws v

[xg32]

6 hours ago, ElectricPichu said:

ah I see.
I just checked the 3600mhz one in my country and I saw there are two ver. available
one with 14 latency and one with 19

(cl14 and cl19)
I understand the 14 one is better but what does it actually mean and how much of a difference is there between them
cause ofc I can see the price differences lol.
thx again
small edit: I am talking about the ripjaws v

the difference is generally not worth it, and cl19 is too slow, i'd rather have cl16 3200, if you can find some cl18 3600 an intel chip should have no problem running that.

 

I feel like  the tridentz heatspreaders seem to be a bit heavier than the ripjaw v though i can't be 100% sure

[ElectricPichu]

12 hours ago, xg32 said:

the difference is generally not worth it, and cl19 is too slow, i'd rather have cl16 3200, if you can find some cl18 3600 an intel chip should have no problem running that.

 

I feel like  the tridentz heatspreaders seem to be a bit heavier than the ripjaw v though i can't be 100% sure

I found two sticks of 2x16gb tridentz 3600mhz with a latency of 17.

Think ill go with that.

Here is the product in their website:https://www.gskill.com/product/165/166/1536656046/F4-3600C17D-32GTZRTrident-Z-RGBDDR4-3600MHz-CL17-19-19-39-1.35V32GB-(2x16GB)