high cpu usage when gaming i5 4690k

[ThatGuyJerome]

currently my rig consists of an i5 4690k on the stock clock with a hyper 212 evo for cooling, a 750Ti and 8Gb of Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM.

Just for a couple of examples ill use games such as smite and GTA 5

when im playing these games i ususually have steam, teamspeak, voicemeeter(for audio splitting) along with the game.

just like this, the game runs perfectly fine with no issues. but, sometimes my friend streams and i like to have chrome open so i can read the chat. the games usually take about 70%-75% CPU usage. and if i tab out and then back in, the usage will go up to 90% for a short time before it goes back to normal.

SMITE will run at like 120FPS without chrome open but when i have chrome open it will go down to like 80FPS and have frame skipping. i kinda shelled $250 out for this CPU and i dont really want to replace it, i updated my bios to the latest version and i just dont know what the problem is honestly.

im not 100% against overclocking, but ive never done it before and im afraid something bad will happen.

if you can give me some help i would greatly appreceate it.

 

[JQB45]

I'd consider it normal. No need to replace it. Games will consume as much CPU capability as possible. It could be the weak GPU thats causing the CPU to work hard.

The i5-4690k is maybe 4th on the list of mainstream processor performance. You're not going to be able to upgrade from it with out spending $319+.

 

[photonboy]

The issue appears to be CHROME not a problem with CPU processing power.

Also, you've got one of the better CPU's around so overclocking won't take you very far (your FPS increase can't exceed your CPU increase. So if you OC'd by 10% you'd get at best but probably lower 8FPS extra if you had 80FPS and severe bottleneck at that time).

Other:
A weak CPU can't make a GPU work harder. That makes no sense. However, you may have a GPU bottleneck, not a CPU bottleneck.

Anyway, your problem relates to Chrome so all I can say is don't use (find a better method) or find a solution for why Chrome is causing such problems.

*I have a single tab for Chrome open right now (Tomshardware as I type this) and it's only using a max of 0.3% (a third of one percent) with my TOTAL CPU usage on my i7-3770K being 3%.

 

[geofelt]

A i5-4690K runs at 3.5 stock with a turbo of 3.9.
You paid more for an overclockable "K" cpu so why not use what you bought?
Your cooler is fine, and I assume you bought a motherboard with a chipset capable of overclocking.
That would be Z87 or Z97.

In the bios, Leave all voltages at auto. Just gradually raise the multiplier from the default 35 So long as the vcore does not exceed 1.30 you are safe.
Stress test with occt and monitor vcore with cpu-z.to a higher number. 40-44 should be reasonable..
OCCT will shut down the test at 85c, but the chip will shut itself down at 100c. if it needs to regardless.

 

[William Henrickson]

Chrome uses GPU power to render, hence stutter. It's probably some crap site with Flash Player going.

 

[Bill1949]

currently my rig consists of an i5 4690k on the stock clock with a hyper 212 evo for cooling, a 750Ti and 8Gb of Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM.

Just for a couple of examples ill use games such as smite and GTA 5

when im playing these games i ususually have steam, teamspeak, voicemeeter(for audio splitting) along with the game.

just like this, the game runs perfectly fine with no issues. but, sometimes my friend streams and i like to have chrome open so i can read the chat. the games usually take about 70%-75% CPU usage. and if i tab out and then back in, the usage will go up to 90% for a short time before it goes back to normal.

SMITE will run at like 120FPS without chrome open but when i have chrome open it will go down to like 80FPS and have frame skipping. i kinda shelled $250 out for this CPU and i dont really want to replace it, i updated my bios to the latest version and i just dont know what the problem is honestly.

im not 100% against overclocking, but ive never done it before and im afraid something bad will happen.

if you can give me some help i would greatly appreceate it.

 

[Bill1949]

Jerome - I stream via You Tube. I open my live stream in Chrome and in the chat area there are 3 vertical dots (menu) - from there I 'Pop out chat'. This opens a separate window with only the chat. I then close the main Chrome window, leaving just the chat window for me to respond to and the stream window is closed.

Might this help you (hope I haven't misunderstood).....?