Possible 980ti bottleneck?

[Tut]

I recently purchased a 980ti, upgrading from a 660ti, which was starting to age quite a bit. I was extremely excited to finally be able to play my favorite games at a stable 60fps, albeit at 1080p, and eventually upgrade to a 4k display. However, I noticed that with my current AMD 8320, at stock speeds, I was getting about 40-65 fps MAX on GTA5 and Witcher 3. There are no problems with the graphics card, to my knowledge, and the GPU goes to about 70 degrees, 75% load when playing Witcher at max settings, Hairworks off, and with no custom fan curve. I've tinkered with the games settings,  and can get them at a stable 60 fps, but NOWHERE near what the 980ti should be able to handle.

 

Is my CPU limiting my performance with my 980ti? Or is the card not performing as well as it should?

 

(As a note, I am going to upgrade to a 4790k in the future, the CPU i'm currently using is a sort of replacement, since the mobo on my old CPU, a 3770k, has no onboard sound, which I basically cannot live without.)

 

If you need any extra information just ask, and I'll provide.

[niofalpha]

What is the CPU usage at?

 

And it's definitely bottle necking hard core in lots of games.

[PineappleHolidays]

Cpu botleneck.

 

Why you would pair a 700€ gpu with a 100€ cpu is beyond me

[RicMX3]

Overclock your CPU, you should be fine

[Tut]

Cpu botleneck.

 

Why you would pair a 700€ gpu with a 100€ cpu is beyond me

I literally said that the 3770k motherboard that I was using is broken.

EDIT: Mobo is broken, CPU is not.

Yeah, the 8320 seems to be the culprit. Can you OC for the time being? You can squeeze out some extra performance. Ideally, you should be getting somewhere around 85 FPS on the Witcher 3 at 1080p

I will try and come back with some results.

[Tut]

Another note, I did not buy a new mobo for the intel CPU because I was using these two as a home server, and I just frankenstiened it with my parts.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Already stated its possibly a CPU neck...

You stated 75% GPU load at Maximum settings which indicates some serious GPU performance penalty (25% TOTAL performance loss right there), no doubt CPU necking your GPU.

 

Answer = OC-CPU or Upgrade to a faster platform.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Or, pray to the gods of DX12 for some utilization.

That too,.. if you can wait.

[Castdeath97]

Why not just buy a H81 board for the time being?

[Tut]

Why not just buy a H81 board for the time being?

 

Another note, I did not buy a new mobo for the intel CPU because I was using these two as a home server, and I just frankenstiened it with my parts.

I'm going to be fully upgrading my PC in the close future, with the 980ti being part of it, so I opted to just wait it out and save up to get my Z97 Sabertooth and 4790k.

[Sam Z Man]

(As a note, I am going to upgrade to a 4790k in the future, the CPU i'm currently using is a sort of replacement, since the mobo on my old CPU, a 3770k, has no onboard sound, which I basically cannot live without.)

You may want to invest in a sound card, or if you can still RMA the board do that.

[Nena Trinity]

I recently purchased a 980ti, upgrading from a 660ti, which was starting to age quite a bit. I was extremely excited to finally be able to play my favorite games at a stable 60fps, albeit at 1080p, and eventually upgrade to a 4k display. However, I noticed that with my current AMD 8320, at stock speeds, I was getting about 40-65 fps MAX on GTA5 and Witcher 3. There are no problems with the graphics card, to my knowledge, and the GPU goes to about 70 degrees, 75% load when playing Witcher at max settings, Hairworks off, and with no custom fan curve. I've tinkered with the games settings,  and can get them at a stable 60 fps, but NOWHERE near what the 980ti should be able to handle.

 

Is my CPU limiting my performance with my 980ti? Or is the card not performing as well as it should?

 

(As a note, I am going to upgrade to a 4790k in the future, the CPU i'm currently using is a sort of replacement, since the mobo on my old CPU, a 3770k, has no onboard sound, which I basically cannot live without.)

 

If you need any extra information just ask, and I'll provide.

Depends on the game also some games are not made for FX CPUs.  (DX12 will make it better but not make it 100% bottle free so I asume waiting for DX12 is pointless try to upgrade but if you are gonna do it in 2016 try Zen?)

[marldorthegreat]

Depends on the game also some games are not made for FX CPUs.

no games are made for fx cpus HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Nena Trinity]

no games are made for fx cpus HAHAHAHAHAHA

Frostbite, Unreal, Source and many more engines are made for FX but there are indie games and other poorly optimized games that are not!

[marldorthegreat]

Frostbite, Unreal, Source and many more engines are made for FX but there are indie games and other poorly optimized games that are not!

 

AMD'S GPUS NOT THERE CPUS are optimized for those games.

[Nena Trinity]

AMD'S GPUS NOT THERE CPUS are optimized for those games.

There are plenty of games made for 8 treads... (which the i7 loves even more)

[marldorthegreat]

There are plenty of games made for 8 treads... (which the i7 loves even more)

That is not optimization for fx cpus btw.

[Nena Trinity]

That is not optimization for fx cpus btw.

Not directly for it but it is when it works better than i3!

[Tut]

You may want to invest in a sound card, or if you can still RMA the board do that.

Board is about 3 years old

[Sam Z Man]

Board is about 3 years old

Pick up a sound card for cheap, check the local classifieds.

[Faceman]

Nena, just because a game can use all 8 threads, doesn't mean it benefits from them all.

 

Very modern game that can make use of all threads available.  i3 beating an FX9.

 

BF4 which was made for the FX processors and can use all threads it is given.  Takes an FX8 OC'd to 5.0Ghz just to barely edge out an i5-4440.

 

Yet another game that makes use of all threads available:

 

@ OP:  Try and buy a used Z77 motherboard.  There is no reason to let a perfectly good i7-3770k go to waste, or to upgrade to an i7-4790k when the 3770k is incredibly strong.

[bomerr]

You can use HDMI audio out of the GPU if you have a receiver.

Else just buy a USB DAC.