Hello,
I have an i5 4690 non K 4 core 4 thread CPU on a MSI H97 Gaming 3 Motherboard (with most recent bios m-flashed successfully)
I've had this question for a long time so i'll cut to the chase.
FYI: I am running this with a MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G
Ive had some obvious bottleneck issues on many games where the cpu stays at 100% load while the GPU chills at 35% load
When I stress test this cpu or play games (which has a 3.9GHz max turbo boost clock) the cpu never boosts to 3.9GHz, I noticed some fps hiccups while playing valorant and tried to monitor my cpu clock with rivatuner on a couple of other games I also play and the cpu was in fact not boosting to 3.9GHz constantly but rather fluctuating around 3.5GHz (which is the base clock of the cpu) to around 3.7GHz.
I went into the bios and played around with different settings, I set the ring ratio from Auto to x39 and saved and booted (keep in mind I had SpeedStep and Turbo Boost enabled with this adjustment).
The cpu now boosts at 3.9GHz at 115w consumption and ~75c temp while stress testing prime95 small ffts and while in-game (the task manager now shows a base clock of 3.9GHz -previously showed 3.5GHz- and when the cpu is actually boosts to 3.9GHz it reports 4.33GHz for some weird reason butCPU-Z and RivaTuner shows 3900MHz while playing and the cpu downclocks to 800MHz when idle)
The cpu and gpu loads are now somewhat evened out at around 65% both.
I think I have some performance benefit from this but I am not sure, is it worth keeping this x39 ring ratio, should I change some other settings or should i reset it to factory and let it do its thing?
Is there a way to find out if there is any performance improvement by benchmarking the cpu in some way?
I have an i5 4690 non K 4 core 4 thread CPU on a MSI H97 Gaming 3 Motherboard (with most recent bios m-flashed successfully)
I've had this question for a long time so i'll cut to the chase.
FYI: I am running this with a MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G
Ive had some obvious bottleneck issues on many games where the cpu stays at 100% load while the GPU chills at 35% load
When I stress test this cpu or play games (which has a 3.9GHz max turbo boost clock) the cpu never boosts to 3.9GHz, I noticed some fps hiccups while playing valorant and tried to monitor my cpu clock with rivatuner on a couple of other games I also play and the cpu was in fact not boosting to 3.9GHz constantly but rather fluctuating around 3.5GHz (which is the base clock of the cpu) to around 3.7GHz.
I went into the bios and played around with different settings, I set the ring ratio from Auto to x39 and saved and booted (keep in mind I had SpeedStep and Turbo Boost enabled with this adjustment).
The cpu now boosts at 3.9GHz at 115w consumption and ~75c temp while stress testing prime95 small ffts and while in-game (the task manager now shows a base clock of 3.9GHz -previously showed 3.5GHz- and when the cpu is actually boosts to 3.9GHz it reports 4.33GHz for some weird reason butCPU-Z and RivaTuner shows 3900MHz while playing and the cpu downclocks to 800MHz when idle)
The cpu and gpu loads are now somewhat evened out at around 65% both.
I think I have some performance benefit from this but I am not sure, is it worth keeping this x39 ring ratio, should I change some other settings or should i reset it to factory and let it do its thing?
Is there a way to find out if there is any performance improvement by benchmarking the cpu in some way?