Stock Intel Cooler Bottleneck?

[Steven9595]

Kinda a noob question. I've got the stock intel cooler still on my 4690k and I'm wondering if it's the bottleneck to my CPU as far as CPU load % goes? In GTA V I'm usually floating between 95 and 100% and I'm wondering if I replace my stock cooler with something like an H100i and overclock my CPU, if that'll alleviate some of the CPU load? Thanks for helping a noob out

[Aytex]

wat

 

since when did coolers bottleneck cpu's

[MegaDave91]

You mean throttling. Your CPU may become toasty with the stock cooler, but It's fine under normal conditions/operations.

[Enderman]

no

CPU cooler has nothing to do with the % load

 

programs running on your PC cause load

[Steven9595]

no

CPU cooler has nothing to do with the % load

 

programs running on your PC cause load

Thanks. See I told you, noob question

[Sportiva]

Kinda a noob question. I've got the stock intel cooler still on my 4690k and I'm wondering if it's the bottleneck to my CPU as far as CPU load % goes? In GTA V I'm usually floating between 95 and 100% and I'm wondering if I replace my stock cooler with something like an H100i and overclock my CPU, if that'll alleviate some of the CPU load? Thanks for helping a noob out

What is your "idle" cpu usage?

 

EDIT: Also thermals don't have anything to do with load unless it starts throttling. 

Edited December 16, 2015 by Sportiva

[Steven9595]

What is your "idle" cpu usage?

between 2-5% lol.

[FAQBytes]

A hyper 212 evo (Or other cooler) will help get those temps down. 

 

But I think you already know what I was going to say now.

[HectorF]

If you oc it may help but get a 212 as watercoolers at entry level or cheapo ones are bested or matched by air coolers like the 212 evo

[Spectator]

Gta 5 doesn't use full cpu I got a i7 4790k and a 970 and the cpu doesn't go above 85$ and is usually around 60%. Get a 212 evo all you need tbh. I don't like how water coolers are loud