4690k a bottleneck?

[AsGoodAsAHacker]

Recently upgraded to 290 crossfire. While gaming my cpu usage is 80+% while got usage is low 40%ish. Is the 4690k not fast enough for these two cards? No thermal throttling, temps are always below 60c on cpu, always below 75c for both gpus

[MegaDave91]

Is v-sync enabled?

 

EDIT: You're running at 1080p, so that may be the culprit.

[SeanBond]

Depends on the game really, many of the triple a games of late are easily cpu bottlenecked.

[AsGoodAsAHacker]

Is v-sync enabled?

Yes, good point I'll disable and try

Edit: didn't help disabling:(

[AsGoodAsAHacker]

Depends on the game really, many of the triple a games of late are easily cpu bottlenecked.

But cpus are so overkill for games these days. I can't believe a 4690k can be bottleneck already. But perhaps two cards as fast as a 290 will do it in. That is a lot of shit for the cpu to work with.

[MegaDave91]

But cpus are so overkill for games these days. I can't believe a 4690k can be bottleneck already. But perhaps two cards as fast as a 290 will do it in. That is a lot of shit for the cpu to work with.

Disable crossfire and see if single gpu utilization increases. 

[AsGoodAsAHacker]

Disable crossfire and see if single gpu utilization increases.

It doesn't. But cpu usage is at 40%. When mantle is enabled this problem is gone, problem is mantle is unstable. Causes crashes.

[MegaDave91]

It doesn't. But cpu usage is at 40%. When mantle is enabled this problem is gone, problem is mantle is unstable. Causes crashes.

Use DX11

[Howhurl]

Depending on your power options in control panel, your cpu may be told to use 100% at all times, therefore having a couple applications on the background while gaming will have a high usage %.

It's been tested over and over again, only a few games are bottlenecked past 4 cores; sometimes performance dips with more cores.

[siberiansteel11]

I don't think that's a bottleneck issue. I got an i5 2500k(stock) with two gtx 680's I can't feel any bottleneck in any game but then again all games cap at 60 fps (v-sync)   

[AsGoodAsAHacker]

Use DX11

I do