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Well there are 2 ways to get rid of a bottleneck, get a better CPU or get a weaker GPU. It's better to get a faster CPU.

Well considering people are still using the first generations i7s to this day, it will last for a long time perhaps years. The only time you'll need to consider a CPU upgrade is when your GPU is being bottle necked by the CPU.

This is probably some sort of software error or game setting when you're full screen that is causing this 100% cpu usage. So just play around with the game settings and see if it makes a difference.

Well voltage spikes can be due to a variety of reasons. For example, turbo boost will up the voltage so you have a higher clock speed during peak performance. However, most likely it could be due to a overclocking program which will often up the voltage to accommodate a higher clock speed with...

I'm pretty sure this chip was just an unlucky get, as it can only run 4.2 stable at 1.3v which is higher than I expected. However, running at 1.29 can cause stability issues such as through hours of rendering - there goes a waste of time - I was wondering what I should do.

Well it's up to you, if you feel that's the best decision then go for it. My CPU runs at like 2% with Google Chrome and some tabs open and at 32c. I personally have a NZXT X62, but that's way out there.

I highly doubt it's your CPU that is causing the bottleneck, might want to consider other things such as hard drive, ram, etc.

Well, there haven't been any huge improvement gains or breakthroughs since the the i7,i5,i3, etc. came out. If you would like a rough estimate then your CPU is perhaps 70% of current i5s now. Not bad, but definitely a gap that will show through heavy tasks.

Several solutions would be physically check if contact between heat sink and CPU is sturdy, replacing thermal paste, or replacing the fan. Another one you could check is whether your computer is running heavily at idle like background tasks, just open up Task manager to find out :) H60 is...

A quiet operation is good but not required just as long as it's not blaring loud. I'm cooling a i7-6800k. My case is corsair c70 vengeance.

So I just recently found out about this peltier thing where one side gets cold and the other gets hot. How would I use this to cool my cpu? Do I attach the cold side to the CPU and the hot side to a heatsink or AIO like H100i? Where do I find how to do this?

However this isn't skylake? It's broadwell-E.

Alright thanks for your help and persistence.