LoL CPU core Usage

[Joschmo]

I have been trying to figure out what is bottle necking my CPU and trying to be able to run my favorite games at high, stable fps in stressful situations. In this case we will talk strictly league of legends. When there is not a whole lot going on in the game, my game runs perfectly. However when we are in a big 5 vs 5 team fight my fps will sputter down even to 20 fps.

To try to figure out what is bottlenecking my pc. Here is a recent screenshot of me just spectating a game with max graphics, but no shadows

http://tinypic.com/r/15d2h74/8

It seems like the game primarily hogs one core really hard and it randomly will switch from core 0 to 2 to 7 to ect.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113285

This is my CPU. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue? or should I looked to find a cpu with a faster clock and maybe a quad core? Thanks in advance for the help. I can provide more info if needed.

 

[Supahos]

That CPU is way more than enough to run lol maxxed out build my nephew a rig with it and it sits over 100fps capped. What gpu do you have? I suspect that is your issue

 

[astonerii]

Does your video card fan spin up significantly. It might be throttling under heavy load.

 

[Joschmo]

Hey guys sorry my picture did not post in my initial post. I'm gonna link it again

http://tinypic.com/r/15d2h74/8

 

[Joschmo]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130945 My GPU

 

[astonerii]

Looking at the picture you seem to have enough resources.
When my GPU was failing, I was able to run 5 Virtual machines with Blue Stacks running and it would show about 60% of GPU usage. But things were very laggy.
Eventually what I found out was that it was overheating and throttling down. It was still only showing about 60% GPU usage, but since it was running at less than half its rated speed, things were laggy.
That is why I would check that. It should be a pretty easy check.

 

[Joschmo]

Ok i will give that a go.

 

[James Mason]

LoL is a single core game, it doesn't care how many cores you have, only how fast your fastest single core is. AMD's entire CPU line up pales in comparison to Intel for single core performance. Your GPU is more than enough, if you want better game performance, the following would be the best cheapest upgrade:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($114.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($79.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $194.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-12 23:15 EDT-0400

Although, you will get better game performance in 99% of games, you'll lose performance for things like video editing.

It's also possible your CPU/GPU is overheating, turning on the temperature readings for your overlay will help you figure that out.