Question Bottlenecked CPU

[BunanaChip]

Hey, i just bought a new computer, and i played PUBG and Sea Of Thieves on it, and i noticed that the CPU was running at 70-90% while the GPU was running at 10% MAX. Is there any CPU's you guys would recommend me buying that is around $280 dollars that will prevent the bottlenecking?

My specs:
i7-6700 -3.40GHZ, 4 cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB
Motherboard = Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971)
32GB RAM


I appriciate any help!

 

[boju]

That's got nothing to do with cpu bottleneck, there's something else going on. Hell, my old 2600k handled 1080ti quite well. Fyi best you can do cpu wise if were to upgrade is 7700/7700k. Dead end.

Run Userbenchmark and link results page.

Being a second hand computer? Did Windows come already on it? Might want to try a reset in recovery options or complete reinstall of Windows. Try reinstalling Geforce drivers first and make sure video cable is connected to graphics card and not igpu from the motherboard. Graphics card video ports will be further down the back side of the case.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Also counter-intuitively, if you've dropped the quality settings hoping for better performance, that actually shifts the load onto the CPU more. The CPU still has to tell what the GPU to do, and if it's already busy handling the game itself, it'll have a maximum FPS cap.

What FPS are you aiming for? Worry about that first, then we can start looking for bottlenecks.

 

[ficler1977]

Nothing wrong here.
Apply higher Graphic settings so you will get better load(until FPS will drop into undesired level)
You could do with better CPU but you would get 20%-30% in performance so no need for upgrading anything unless it is a bargain.
stay as you are until you would buy new system in few years, no need to upgrade now

 

[boju]

Gpu utilisation only reaching 10% is entirely different issue. Unless the games in question are just that bad, this has nothing to do with fps taxing cpu resources whatsoever, not to that extent. Besides, cpu isn't even maxed out.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Gpu utilisation only reaching 10% is entirely different issue. Unless the games in question are just that bad, this has nothing to do with fps taxing cpu resources whatsoever, not to that extent. Besides, cpu isn't even maxed out.

CPU being maxed out doesn't necessarily mean there's no bottleneck. After all most games still rely on around 2-3 threads to do a bulk of the work, which requires higher single core performance.

In any case, looking at utilization in a vacuum is pointless without knowing what performance they're getting and what performance they want.

 

[boju]

CPU being maxed out doesn't necessarily mean there's no bottleneck. After all most games still rely on around 2-3 threads to do a bulk of the work, which requires higher single core performance.

In any case, looking at utilization in a vacuum is pointless without knowing what performance they're getting and what performance they want.

Im coming from experience. 2600k (4.5ghz) w/ 1080ti, either in 1080p or 1440p, never have i seen gpu usage that low. So i believe something else is the matter. Even if cpu was maxed out, wouldn't gimp a card that low either.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Im coming from experience. 2600k (4.5ghz) w/ 1080ti, either in 1080p or 1440p, never have i seen gpu usage that low. So i believe something else is the matter. Even if cpu was maxed out, wouldn't gimp a card that low either.

Although this is a pretty contrived example, here you go:


I'd rather wait for OP to give us more information though before arguing what the problem is.

 

[boju]

Well both of you sounded like you're already alleging the cpu can't handle it. 2070 isn't that strong anyway to be an issue. It's how i read it, sorry. Anyways, i agree waiting for more info as in regards to my post.