CPU bottleneck

[Demaurice]

Hello everyone,

The title is pretty clear in this one. My CPU is bottlenecking almost everything.

PC Specs:

 

Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
    AMD FX-4100    62 °C
    Zambezi 32nm Technology
RAM
    16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30)
Motherboard
    ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2)    72 °C
Graphics
    PL2473H (1920x1080@60Hz)
    8192MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 390 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner)    54 °C
Storage
    931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 ATA Device (SATA)    48 °C
Optical Drives
    No optical disk drives detected

 

 

Basically what I need is help finding the best settings for my games. For GPU bottlenecks its always opvious, turning down graphically demanding settings will increase FPS, not that hard. But for CPU usage I've read on several forums that putting these settings on high will take load off the CPU, onto the GPU. I've tried this in several games (battlefield 4, CSGO, Dota 2, H1Z1 etc.) but haven't really found any difference. I can run battlefield 4 with 80 FPS flat (not in 64player rush though, poor 10 fps there). But I can't get H1Z1 to run any higher then 50 fps. In H1Z1 I've tried lowering the render distance, as I've heard this task is mainly CPU bound. This increased my FPS by 5, but its still not smooth gameplay for me.

In Dota 2 I've tried any graphical setting, but I have not found any difference in FPS from the highest or the lowest settings (it's also stuck around 50~55 and doesn't feel smooth).

The only thing outside of games I found working, is closing chrome completely (as in activa programs at the bottum right and closing it there). This increased FPS a bit again. But I have still not found any solution to make the games feel smooth yet.

Does anyone have tips or a solution for this?

 

Thanks for all the help in advance!

[Electronics Wizardy]

There isn't much you can do. Most games need a certian amout of cpu to just run and you have barely enough. Id probably OC or look into upgrading your cpu. For settings, most won't make a huge difference, so might as well crank the settings.

[minibois]

There really aren't any easy decrease the CPU usage settings in games, like there are for GPU usage. Best bet is:

1. overclocking (won't help much)

2. upgrading.

[Bananasplit_00]

as has been mentioned already, overclocking and upgrading are your options here, not sure if it shares socket with the FX 6300 but the FX 6300 is ok for medium settings 1080p

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[Majestic]

FX-4100 isn't a bottleneck to a R9-390, it's a surgical syringe.

[Demaurice]

Thanks for the comments everyone! sorry for the late response. I'm planning on buying an i7 4790 soon enough when I have the money for it. The thing is that I also want to wait for it to drop below 300 euro's but that's probably not happening anytime soon