Recent content by Gary LeCheers

What's weird (and I probably should have mentioned this in the original post) is that my HDD gets stuck at 100% when there are literally no programs or services using it. A load of background tasks are using 0.1-0.2 MB/S of disk usage and it still stays at 100%, for what reason I have no idea.

My current HDD, which is about four years old and was cheap when I bought it, often spikes to 100% usage for prolonged periods of time (especially after launching games), and is at constant 100% usage when I turn my computer on for quite some time. I've tried a variety of fixes which failed to...

I don't have Geforce experience installed for a variety of reasons, so its not that. Anyone know of anything else?

My specs are as follows: GTX 1070, i5 4460, 8gb DDR3 Ram In most games that I'm playing im getting extremely low GPU usage and power draw, ie an average of less than 50%. This is causing frame rates much lower than to be expected. In some games this is caused by bottlneck (such as Battlefield 1)...

Do you think that upgrading to an i5 4690k would make much difference in terms of reducing bottleneck?

I have an i5 4460, and a GTX 1070 in my rig. While performing fine on other games, battlefield one is absolutely terrible (around 40fps average in on the large scale maps, no matter the graphics settings). I installed MSI Afterburner and found out that on these large maps, my GPU usage is around...

Yeah I checked and there is nothing else using any significant CPU, all other programs are using like 5% total. I have a Gigabyte Z97P-D3 so should be able to overclock. I think I'll get the i5 4690k which should improve bottleneck. Thanks for your help.

I'm only playing at 1080p currently cause I don't yet have a 1440p monitor. Would it be worth upgrading to an i5 4690k instead of downgrading my GPU? Its quite a lot cheaper than an i7.

If a GPU is pretty heavily bottlenecked by a CPU, will downgrading the GPU to a worse one actually increase performance or would it make no difference. For example, I have a GTX 1070 which on some games is heavily bottlenecked by my i5 4460, and so if I sold the 1070 and bought a 1060 would...