LOW GPU USAGE

[Miccolis]

Hello LTT forums my computer has been giving me lots of issues such as a broken ram sicks and lots fps lag. Recently I have noticed that my GPU never goes past 35-40% while gaming(it does sometimes go to 100 when tabbing in and out of games) i have tried DUU changing power settings in widows and nvidia control panel playing with HPET and more nothing is working I get 120-90 fps on low on Overwatch (i want 240 because i have a 240hz monitor) I need help and i would also like to run a bench mark to see if my system performs well but I dont know any software that is free for that. tempatures are also not the issue cpu is 40-60C gpu is 50-60c

 

 

SPECS

MSI DUKE 1080ti

GIGABYTE Gaming 3 am4 b350 MotherBoard

16gb of 3000mhz RAM Corsair vengeance

750watt psu

ryzen 7 1700

 

[Zyndo]

26 minutes ago, Miccolis said:

Recently I have noticed that my GPU never goes past 35-40% while gaming

and what does the CPU load register as when gaming? per core will be useful here since Overwatch isn't going to tax all 16 of your threads. Have you overclocked your R7 1700? what is it running at? (specifically while gaming, be sure to measure it when gaming and don't just assume it's running at whatever you have it set to). Same question regarding your RAM.

 

What are the core/mem clocks your GPU running at? have you overclocked it at all?

Be sure to run the game in fullscreen mode. Make sure you have Vsync disabled. make sure you have fps limit set to 300 in OW (or at least 240 if that is your wish).

 

Make sure you have set up your display adapter, as well as windows, and in some cases even your monitor, to display 240hz. In my experience it will not make this change for you automatically.

[faziten]

12 hours ago, Miccolis said:

Hello LTT forums my computer has been giving me lots of issues such as a broken ram sicks Explain this and lots fps lag. Recently I have noticed that my GPU never goes past 35-40% depends what you are playing, Overwatch on low is not particularly stressing for a 1080Ti. while gaming(it does sometimes go to 100 when tabbing in and out of games) i have tried DUU changing power settings in widows and nvidia control panel playing with HPET and more nothing is working I get 120-90 fps on low on Overwatch (i want 240 because i have a 240hz monitor) I need help and i would also like to run a bench mark to see if my system performs well but I dont know any software that is free for that. Cinebench, Unigine, MSI afterburner,  tempatures are also not the issue cpu is 40-60C gpu is 50-60c

 

 

SPECS

MSI DUKE 1080ti

GIGABYTE Gaming 3 am4 b350 MotherBoard

16gb of 3000mhz RAM Corsair vengeance Confirm if they are -actually- working at 3000Mhz. (CPU-Z software for that matter).

750watt psu Brand and model?

ryzen 7 1700 Frequency? (CPU-Z)

 

Post your results down, if you can with a full capture of MSI afterburner running in background during those benches. cheers.

 

 

[Princess Luna]

12 hours ago, Miccolis said:

(i want 240 because i have a 240hz monitor)

 

12 hours ago, Miccolis said:

ryzen 7 1700

Doing it very wrong mate...

[xg32]

OC your 1700 to 3.7ghz assuming you haven't already.

 

Been seeing these threads alot about the 1080 ti lately, they have 2 things in common, 1080 ti, ryzen cpus. A cpu with 3.8~ghz on a single core simply isn't enough to run even 120fps in some games, let alone 240. If you wanted 240 u shoulda went with a 8700/k. 

 

I think the bottleneck that a 1600 or 1700 poses to a 1080 or 1080 ti is severely understated. (the cpu does not need to be 100% to cause bottlenecks, games simply aren't optimized to use all the threads)

[HazardousPotato]

19 hours ago, Miccolis said:

 I get 120-90 fps on low on Overwatch

 

If you haven't already, try setting resolution scale to 100%, it usually automatically sets it higher and majorly effects fps, for me at least.

[DRAAAAAAAAAAAGONS]

I've seen a deal on a 1080 and am building my first computer. What's the cheapest CPU that won't bottleneck 1080? (Also 8gb ram is probably not enough for the rest of the system, is it?)