Is my i5-4590 bottlenecking my GTX 780 Ghz Ed????

[DaanDieKooHaan]

Hi guys!

I recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu from a H61M board and Celeron G540 2.5ghz to a Z97-K with an i5-4590. The reason was because the Celeron was bottlenecking my Sapphire 5850 Vapor-X gpu. After the upgrade I immediately saw an increase in performance. The rest of my system spec stayed exactly the same, i.e. 8GB DDR3 1333mhz ram and such. As of late I upgraded to this brand new Gigabyte GTX780 Ghz Edition. But I am not getting the results I expected? Sure the performance is better, but not as much as I had wished.

So can someone please help by telling me if my expectations are too high or if there really is a problem? Please and thank you!

 

[Benab3]

Hey,

There should have been a very significant performance increase in games. There should be no bottlenecking problems between your CPU and 780, the newer I5's can handle even the highest end single graphics card configurations.

First thing I would check is the Temperature and Core Clock. Download Furmark Stress Test and MSI Afterburner, run furmark for a few minutes and see what your Temperature and Core Clock Read.

 

[DaanDieKooHaan]

Can you tell me what kind of frames I should be expecting from my gpu? In games like Far Cry 4 and Black Flag and Crysis 3?

 

[Benab3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2uFsJD-BY
There is someone with a similar setup. Also forgot to ask, do you have the latest Nvidia Drivers? If not: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/97027/en-uk

 

[DaanDieKooHaan]

Okay my game actually plays better than that. I edited some settings in the .ini file and I get 60fps constant now. I do have the latest drivers installed also.
Here is my MSI Afterburner results after playing a bit of Far Cry 4.
GPU Temp Max: 75 C
GPU Usage Max: 99%
Core Clock Max: 1163 Mhz
Memory Clock Max: 3005 Mhz
Memory Usage Max: 2136 Mhz
CPU Temp Max: 69 C
CPU Usage Max: 84%
RAM Usage Max: 4479 MB

 

[Benab3]

Both temperatures and clock speed look okay there. If you are getting 60 FPS constant, something similar or better than the video, then everything is running normally!

 

[DaanDieKooHaan]

So I guess my expectations are just too high? Thanks a lot man!