Bottle necking?

[SgtPepper]

I was recently playing Borderlands 2 and noticed a considerable decrease in performance. It was falling from its average 60 fps to below 40 and has even reached below 30. I was wondering if this was a result of bottle necking ( tell me if I'm an idiot, I know next to nothing about PCs). My GPU is the Geforce GTX 960 and my CPU is: Intel® Core i5-4690 CPU 3.50GHz. If someone could explain why this is happening it'd be appreciate, like I said I know virtually nothing about this sort of thing, thanks .

[TheN00bBuilder]

No. It might be the CPU heat throttling. What CPU cooler do you have?

[Voldy21]

I was recently playing Borderlands 2 and noticed a considerable decrease in performance. It was falling from its average 60 fps to below 40 and has even reached below 30. I was wondering if this was a result of bottle necking ( tell me if I'm an idiot, I know next to nothing about PCs). My GPU is the Geforce GTX 960 and my CPU is: Intel® Core i5-4690 CPU 3.50GHz. If someone could explain why this is happening it'd be appreciate, like I said I know virtually nothing about this sort of thing, thanks .

It's not bottle necking. It might be throttling though so tell me your temps for your GPU and CPU. Do you play online? It could be your ping. When you're playing, check your CPU usage on task manager and see if it reaches 100 percent utilization. If it does, it's bottle necking. That's how you'll know for sure.

[ybriK]

I highly doubt there's a bottleneck, that CPU is powerful enough to run SLI/Crossfire. Do you have the latest drivers? Make sure to restart your computer after you have uninstalled and installed the drivers. I don't know if Borderlands 2 is poorly optimized but that could be an issue, however you can see here that an i5-3470 is producing no bottlenecks: http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html Another issue is temperature when playing aka, CPU/GPU decreasing clocks due to high heat.

[SgtPepper]

Is there a way to physically see what cooler I have because I'm not the one who built the PC so I don't know 

[ExplodingTaters]

The lighting and shadows in borderlands and other games cause a lot of CPU stress, so try turning down the lighting and shadow options to see if you get higher frames or decreased heat. Your graphics card is powerful enough to handle most things, your CPU may be heat throttling as they say ^.

[SgtPepper]

Thanks guys

[SgtPepper]

It's not bottle necking. It might be throttling though so tell me your temps for your GPU and CPU. Do you play online? It could be your ping. When you're playing, check your CPU usage on task manager and see if it reaches 100 percent utilization. If it does, it's bottle necking. That's how you'll know for sure.

When I run the game it's at about 50 degrees Celsius and remains there consistently

[SgtPepper]

No. It might be the CPU heat throttling. What CPU cooler do you have?

Is there a way to check that because I have no idea.

[TheN00bBuilder]

Is there a way to check that because I have no idea.

 

.......yes. Open your case and look at the CPU cooler. If its heatpipe, reapply thermal paste. If its just an aluminum block, buy a heatpipe cooler like a TX3.