Hey folks,
So this is a strange one that I'm sure has an easy answer but I'm not savvy enough to find it so I thought I'd reach out here.
I put together my own machine on a super budget. Started with an AMD Athlon 200g as I wanted to atleast turn the machine on before I could afford a gfx card. I got the new card then my system looked like this;
ASRock Steel Legend b450
AMD Athlon 200g
Sapphire Rx590 8g Nitro+
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 16GB
I have a new CPU in my Amazon basket I just dont have the funds right now to buy it.
I have the Radeon Perfomance Software on my machine and had never really looked at it before. I mainly play MMO's and since the machine was built Ive been using it for WoW and FFXIV. I can play both on near ultra settings with isnt an achievement in the grand scheme but given the CPU its not bad. I then got nostalgic for Star Wars The Old Republic so I installed it and set everything to high as I assumed an 8year game wouldnt trouble me too much and here in lies the rub.
I got jerky animations and choppy frame rates. For the first time really I looked at the Radeon overlay and saw FPS of around 30-40 so sadly I had to lower settings ,which was annoying cause FFXIV is a much more demanding game I can play fine at near ultra, but what struck me as odd was looking at the performance metrics that were running in the background and seeing my GPU frequently jump to 100% utilisation but my CPU never going above 60%. And this was spread out over hours of gaming,
My limited understanding was that since the CPU is so awful it would be the bottleneck sweating out at 100% while the GPU just did what it needed with the slow drip of information it was getting from the CPU.
Am I wrong? Isnt the more inferior piece of hardware the bottleneck that should hold up the better component?
As you can see I know very little about PC gaming, I'm just struggling to understand the above points.
So this is a strange one that I'm sure has an easy answer but I'm not savvy enough to find it so I thought I'd reach out here.
I put together my own machine on a super budget. Started with an AMD Athlon 200g as I wanted to atleast turn the machine on before I could afford a gfx card. I got the new card then my system looked like this;
ASRock Steel Legend b450
AMD Athlon 200g
Sapphire Rx590 8g Nitro+
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 16GB
I have a new CPU in my Amazon basket I just dont have the funds right now to buy it.
I have the Radeon Perfomance Software on my machine and had never really looked at it before. I mainly play MMO's and since the machine was built Ive been using it for WoW and FFXIV. I can play both on near ultra settings with isnt an achievement in the grand scheme but given the CPU its not bad. I then got nostalgic for Star Wars The Old Republic so I installed it and set everything to high as I assumed an 8year game wouldnt trouble me too much and here in lies the rub.
I got jerky animations and choppy frame rates. For the first time really I looked at the Radeon overlay and saw FPS of around 30-40 so sadly I had to lower settings ,which was annoying cause FFXIV is a much more demanding game I can play fine at near ultra, but what struck me as odd was looking at the performance metrics that were running in the background and seeing my GPU frequently jump to 100% utilisation but my CPU never going above 60%. And this was spread out over hours of gaming,
My limited understanding was that since the CPU is so awful it would be the bottleneck sweating out at 100% while the GPU just did what it needed with the slow drip of information it was getting from the CPU.
Am I wrong? Isnt the more inferior piece of hardware the bottleneck that should hold up the better component?
As you can see I know very little about PC gaming, I'm just struggling to understand the above points.