[SOLVED] CPU usage spikes after upgrading GPU

[guackamolee]

Hello!

Today I decided to upgrade my nvidia geforce gtx 1060 3GB to a Msi Geforce rtx 3050. Everything went well untill i tried playing a game on my new gpu. I tought I would be able to have better settings now but I was lagging alot to I lowered the settings but was still lagging. I put on the lowest settings in fortnite but were still getting frame drops while looking around or walking.

I started to try and solve this by making sure i had the right drivers, that the old drivers were gonne, I tested MW2 benchmark and saw that i got a 20k ms latency on my gpu. I watched the task manager while starting games and now I know that my gpu is around 30% when playing but my CPU is maxing out, ex. fortnite now takes 90% of CPU usage. I dont know how or why. I have a Intel core i5-7400 and it shouldn't bottleneck that hard.

I have now tried clean wiping my c drive to make sure no old program is in the background, I have checked that my pc uses all cores, the cpu is running at the right speeds and I simply dont know what to do now, please help. Full setup and user benchmark here:

Motherboard: MSI B250M bazooka (MS-7a70)
CPU: Intel core i5-7400 3GHz
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3050 8gb
Ram: Kingston HyperX DDR4 3600 c17 2x8gb

Userbenchmark: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/58126022

 

[rgd1101]

ram not running at 3600
check cpu temp?
brand and model of the psu?

 

[guackamolee]

ram not running at 3600
check cpu temp?
brand and model of the psu?

Forgot to enable XMP after wiping the C drive, now it is grayed out in bios, but I doubt that is the problem because I had in enabled before,

cpu temp is stable at 55C when at 100% load, frequency is not going down

I have a Corsair CX 750M, and yes the cables are connected properly

 

[logainofhades]

Your CPU is the bottleneck here. 4c/4t gaming is essentially dead, and a 3050 is a lot faster, than your 1060 3gb.

 

[guackamolee]

Your CPU is the bottleneck here. 4c/4t gaming is essentially dead, and a 3050 is a lot faster, than your 1060 3gb.

well I understand that if i crank up the settings the cpu should max out and bottleneck me, but if I use the same settings now as before shouldn’t it perform atleast equally to before?

 

[logainofhades]

Cranking up the graphics settings, puts more load on the GPU. Fortnite is pretty CPU heavy also. Low clock speeds, and only 4c/4t are doing you zero favors. Have you checked temps at all?

 

[guackamolee]

Cranking up the graphics settings, puts more load on the GPU. Fortnite is pretty CPU heavy also. Low clock speeds, and only 4c/4t are doing you zero favors. Have you checked temps at all?

Well yeah I know games can be cpu heavy, its just that my cpu handled it fine before, and yes, I posted the temps here answering someone else. All cores are at a stable 55 celsius when at 100% load and the frequency is not dropping either

 

[guackamolee]

Solved it myself, it was a freaking bios update, tought I hade the latest but there was one newer. Installed it and all the framedrops where gone. Still cant take full use of the 3050 until i but a new processor but i can still play