i5 8600k bottleneck

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    Question Help! Games Stuttering/Crashing on RTX 3060 with i5 8600k.

    Recently I've been experiencing stutters and crashes while gaming, I upgraded from GTX 1050ti to RTX 3060, and I used DDU to uninstall any instances of previous GPU drivers and freshly install new GPU drivers. Firstly I thought that maybe games were on my HDD and that's why they must be...
  2. ok021

    [SOLVED] can an i5-8600k( not OC) get bottlenecked by a gtx1650(slightly OC).

    at the moment, i have an i3-8100 ith 8gb of ram and gtx1650. i m planning to upgrade the cpu to an i5-8600k (stock). can the gpu bottleneck the cpu in a big way? or should i get something slower like an i5-9400f so its a balanced system all round? I mainly use it to play games like r6, gta V and...
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    Question 2070 super bottlenecked by i5-8600k

    Hello all! So I recently bought the GB 2070 Super gaming OC and paired it with my i5-8600k OC'd @4.8Ghz. The problem is that I don't get the same FPS as others using the 2070 Super. My friend has it, and he uses it with an i7-7700. I looked around and nowhere did anyone say that an i5-8600k...
  4. FunctionalGaming

    [SOLVED] i5 8600k 100% Usage

    I was just testing Shadow of the Tom Raider on Highest preset settings on my 1080p monitor, after looking at CPU performance it is at 100% a lot of the time and my GPU is very low. I have an i5 8600k overclocked at 4.7GHz and a GTX 1070. I am looking to upgrade to a 2080 super soon, is the CPU...
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    Question PC Suffered a Power Surge - New Build -Assistance appreciated

    So heres the short story. A few weeks ago my pc suffered a power surge. I bought a new power supply but it stil didn't work. I took it to a repair shop to get the problem diagnosed and the components tested. The diagnosis was as follows: CPU - Untested (he didn't have a suitable motherboard)...