my CPU is not using 100% even while im playing heavy games

[Xoyte]

Hey guys, 

first of all, just to let you know. these are my specs :

i7 4790 3.6 GHz (no OC)

16GB ram 

Sapphire AMD radeon r9 390x 

 

My old graphics card crashed a lot from games so i took my pc to a lab where they fix this kind of things. And they said that i have a problem in my graphics card so it is the same model and type just a new one .. 

My problem is that when i don't use any game or doing something my cpu usage is as it should be. But when i load heavy games or games at all the CPU usage is the same as it is when i don't play. My CPU is not using his 100% as he should of..

When i had my old graphics card my CPU was as it should be but now .... i really don't know. 

I need your proffesinal help guys, Please help me out here.

[Sir Asvald]

Hey guys, 

first of all, just to let you know. these are my specs :

i7 4790 3.6 GHz (no OC)

16GB ram 

Sapphire AMD radeon r9 390x 

 

My old graphics card crashed a lot from games so i took my pc to a lab where they fix this kind of things. And they said that i have a problem in my graphics card so it is the same model and type just a new one .. 

My problem is that when i don't use any game or doing something my cpu usage is as it should be. But when i load heavy games or games at all the CPU usage is the same as it is when i don't play. My CPU is not using his 100% as he should of..

When i had my old graphics card my CPU was as it should be but now .... i really don't know. 

I need your proffesinal help guys, Please help me out here.

Your GPU should be at 100%, your CPU shouldn't be that high. 

[theereal]

CPU load usually never goes very high, GPU load should be around 95%.

[Godlygamer23]

Most games don't fully utilize CPUs. It's most likely normal.

[Judahnator]

That is normal.

 

If you want to stress-test your CPU, do a few WU of F@H, or Prime95. Im not sure why you would want to though.

[Majestic]

Look at the CPU usage per core. An i7 has hyperthreads that don't get used often, so that lowers the overall percentage (as windows counts them as cores).

[Guest]

god I'd hope that 4790 wouldn't be overclocked... somethin would be wrong there...

[Xoyte]

god I'd hope that 4790 wouldn't be overclocked... somethin would be wrong there...

What do you mean ?

[Xoyte]

Look at the CPU usage per core. An i7 has hyperthreads that don't get used often, so that lowers the overall percentage (as windows counts them as cores).

MSI Afterburner ?

[Nena Trinity]

GPU should go to 100% but CPU should NOT!

[Luckylock]

a multicore CPU, especially an i7 will never be at 100% CPU utilisation even if the CPU is the bottleneck in games

[Xoyte]

That is normal.

 

If you want to stress-test your CPU, do a few WU of F@H, or Prime95. Im not sure why you would want to though.

 

 

Most games don't fully utilize CPUs. It's most likely normal.

 

 

CPU load usually never goes very high, GPU load should be around 95%.

 

 

Your GPU should be at 100%, your CPU shouldn't be that high. 

With my old graphics card the cpu was between 70-85 even 90C. right now it's only the GPU and the CPU is going around 55-65C when load and when at desktop without doing anything it's around 40-45C. Is it normal ? Is is fine ? Am i need to be worried ? 

[Judahnator]

With my old graphics card the cpu was between 70-85 even 90C. right now it's only the GPU and the CPU is going around 55-65C when load and when at desktop without doing anything it's around 40-45C. Is it normal ? Is is fine ? Am i need to be worried ? 

 

Are you getting around the same FPS in games? If so, then its fine.

 

If its worse, you might need to get that looked at.

[Xoyte]

Are you getting around the same FPS in games? If so, then its fine.

 

If its worse, you might need to get that looked at.

I do lose some in Dying light when there is fire in front of me. It never happened to me before.. Do you think there is a connection between this two ?

[App4that]

Play Battlefront, I hit higher temps than in AIDA64 or XTU

[Guest]

What do you mean ?

the chip isn't overclockable, Its a locked CPU >.>

[Judahnator]

I do lose some in Dying light when there is fire in front of me. It never happened to me before.. Do you think there is a connection between this two ?

 

Not likely. If it only happens then, and looking into something that is graphics intensive will always drop your framerate.

 

Just make sure you have latest drivers and you should be golden.

[TheRandomness]

With my old graphics card the cpu was between 70-85 even 90C. right now it's only the GPU and the CPU is going around 55-65C when load and when at desktop without doing anything it's around 40-45C. Is it normal ? Is is fine ? Am i need to be worried ?

You shouldn't be worried, it's 100% normal.

[theereal]

With my old graphics card the cpu was between 70-85 even 90C. right now it's only the GPU and the CPU is going around 55-65C when load and when at desktop without doing anything it's around 40-45C. Is it normal ? Is is fine ? Am i need to be worried ? 

Dude, what are you on about? Now youre talking about GPU's and degrees?

[ThomasD]

a multicore CPU, especially an i7 will never be at 100% CPU utilisation even if the CPU is the bottleneck in games

How would the CPU be the bottleneck if it not being fully utilized - ie. it still has excess capacity?

[Luckylock]

How would the CPU be the bottleneck if it not being fully utilized - ie. it still has excess capacity?

 

games don't utilise all the cores in a multicore CPU, because a lot of calculations depend on the results of previous ones, etc. The game won't be able to utilise all the cores at 100% so that's why windows is not showing 100% overall utilisation on the CPU.

[Curufinwe_wins]

games don't utilise all the cores in a multicore CPU, because a lot of calculations depend on the results of previous ones, etc. The game won't be able to utilise all the cores at 100% so that's why windows is not showing 100% overall utilisation on the CPU.

This and the more demanding titles you play the lower you fps the less your cpu has to work to keep up.

[Xoyte]

How would the CPU be the bottleneck if it not being fully utilized - ie. it still has excess capacity?

 

 

Dude, what are you on about? Now youre talking about GPU's and degrees?

 

 

You shouldn't be worried, it's 100% normal.

 

 

Not likely. If it only happens then, and looking into something that is graphics intensive will always drop your framerate.

 

Just make sure you have latest drivers and you should be golden.

 

 

the chip isn't overclockable, Its a locked CPU >.>

 

 

Play Battlefront, I hit higher temps than in AIDA64 or XTU

 

 

Are you getting around the same FPS in games? If so, then its fine.

 

If its worse, you might need to get that looked at.

Allright i have a lot of drops in my fps. I put up MSI Afterburner and RIVAtuner which comes with it. And my fps is droping from 300 to 150 and less and then going up again. I played cs go when that happened. 

I opened up my task manager and i saw that my using percent is very low. Between 0-7%. When i play games it should be 100% because when it's not 100% it will cause frame drops in games and some other shit. and it is 45C when not in game and when im ingame it is 50-55C. I mean i don't think it's normal and i do have frame drops. So i can't tell anything cause i don't know .. 

Need your proffesinal help guys ... 

[TheRandomness]

Allright i have a lot of drops in my fps. I put up MSI Afterburner and RIVAtuner which comes with it. And my fps is droping from 300 to 150 and less and then going up again. I played cs go when that happened. 

I opened up my task manager and i saw that my using percent is very low. Between 0-7%. When i play games it should be 100% because when it's not 100% it will cause frame drops in games and some other shit. and it is 45C when not in game and when im ingame it is 50-55C. I mean i don't think it's normal and i do have frame drops. So i can't tell anything cause i don't know .. 

Need your proffesinal help guys ... 

Oh, source games... They shouldn't really use 100% but they may fully utilise a thread (Yaahh GMOD) but still, 150 to 300fps I wouldn't count at a huge problem tbh. And btw, it SHOULDN'T be 100% in games because that's the GPU's job.

[Xoyte]

Oh, source games... They shouldn't really use 100% but they may fully utilise a thread (Yaahh GMOD) but still, 150 to 300fps I wouldn't count at a huge problem tbh. And btw, it SHOULDN'T be 100% in games because that's the GPU's job.

Bro but it used before.. Even while playing dying light which is a real heavy game it doesn't use 100% so .............