Bottlenecking Question

[Oshtro]

If my cpu is running at about 90% in game while my gpu's are only at about 50% that is showing a cpu bottleneck right? Even if it isnt a major bottleneck but a slight one it is still a bottleneck if im right.

[vern021]

Overclock your CPU some more. There will be bottlenecks because of that monster 2-way GTX980 SLI of yours.

Edited December 13, 2014 by vern021

[Oshtro]

Overclock your CPU some more.

Cant, ive run it so hard since ive got it ive had to go from 4.7GHz to 4.5GHz and with 4.5 its running 1.37 vcore

[vern021]

Cant, ive run it so hard since ive got it ive had to go from 4.7GHz to 4.5GHz and with 4.5 its running 1.37 vcore

Bad chip. maybe wait for skylake k or broadwell-e for a CPU upgrade?

[-MOBIUS-]

Cant, ive run it so hard since ive got it ive had to go from 4.7GHz to 4.5GHz and with 4.5 its running 1.37 vcore

 

1.37 volts seems dangerous

[Sintezza]

its normal even a 5960X bottlenecks a GTX980 Sli as fuck on 1080p.

Scaling sucks badly.

 

Only on 1440p and up you will see some decent scaling, but yeah then you are gpu bound.

[Oshtro]

1.37 volts seems dangerous

 

Bad chip. maybe wait for skylake k or broadwell-e for a CPU upgrade?

yeah, 1.37 is kinda uncomfortable. I was thinking about upgrading to an i7 4790k to help get more out of the 980s. 

 

 

its normal even a 5960X bottlenecks a GTX980 Sli as fuck on 1080p.

Scaling sucks badly.

 

Only on 1440p and up you will see some decent scaling, but yeah then you are gpu bound.

Im just trying to eliminate some bottlenecking, which i was pretty dang sure this chip was doing.

[-MOBIUS-]

Yeah seems like an upgrade would be a better option

[Sintezza]

yes but GTX980 Sli just get bottlenecked at 1080p by any cpu.

The only way to vannish the bottleneck, is higher res gaming 1440p and upp

[Oshtro]

yes but GTX980 Sli just get bottlenecked at 1080p by any cpu.

The only way to vannish the bottleneck, is higher res gaming 1440p and upp

Thanks for the replys and info, i may go ahead and upgrade to help it a little anyways and i havent tried supersampling yet with this set up but i will give it a try.

[Sintezza]

Thanks for the replys and info, i may go ahead and upgrade to help it a little anyways and i havent tried supersampling yet with this set up but i will give it a try.

 

yeah you could try super sampling, maybe it helps to render the image and texture quality in a higher res.

[Majestic]

Does it really matter? I mean if the 4670K is at 90% load at 4.5ghz, the framerate will surely be high enough....

But if you have the GPU horsepower to spare, just increase the visuals.

[Oshtro]

yeah you could try super sampling, maybe it helps to render the image and texture quality in a higher res.

Yeah supersampling did help my frame rate actually, never seen that happen before lol but so far ive only tried one game

 

 

Does it really matter? I mean if the 4670K is at 90% load at 4.5ghz, the framerate will surely be high enough....

But if you have the GPU horsepower to spare, just increase the visuals.

For some games i still dont maximize my monitors 144hz refresh rate on the highest settings, and im the kinda person to want my games to look as good as possible while maintaining a pretty high fps.

[Majestic]

For some games i still dont maximize my monitors 144hz refresh rate on the highest settings, and im the kinda person to want my games to look as good as possible while maintaining a pretty high fps.

 

What game is it, could be one of those console ports. They just don't like high framerates..

[Oshtro]

What game is it, could be one of those console ports. They just don't like high framerates..

They arent console ports, ive got a game or two that are console ports and they are both locked at 60. A lot of console ports have locked framerates or they just dont work over 60 fps, i play skyrim every now and then and i have to lock my frames at 60 or it gets really glitchy.  I also already have visuals maxed on a lot of my games, for example, BF4 visuals are maxed out and like Sintezza was saying by supersampling from 15xx down to 1080p actually gave me about a +30 fps boost.