Question Optimizing BIOS settings for system that seems to be underperforming

[CharlieChapman]

Gigabyte Aorus x470 Gaming WIFI 5 with bios from February 2022
Nvidia RTX 3050
Gskill F4-3000C-16-8GSXFB
m.2 500 GB drive

CPU-Z Screenshots

https://imgur.com/a/iHJoI4d

View: https://imgur.com/a/iHJoI4d

Have the BIOS on default settings, with XMP enabled. It still just feels... wrong. I've considered switching to Atlas OS to strip down Windows 10, but I'd like to consider I have some settings wrong first. For things like games, I get bottleneced at 35-50% CPU and GPU usage. Just can't seem to break that, especially in emulators that are CPU heavy. They just don't utilize but a fraction of the system resources, and I don't think I've ever seen any of the pieces of hardware hit 100% even when encoding videos.
I have access to other RAM, but even what I have rarely gets used beyond 8-10GB when using the most demanding emulators.
Any advice on settings or something I'm missing, that's blatently obvious?

 

[rgd1101]

fresh os install?

 

[CharlieChapman]

fresh os install?

yessir, about a week ago, and nothing running besides some emulator installs, battle.net and microsft office
edit: and handbrake for encoding

 

[hotaru.hino]

The default settings in BIOS, outside of RAM speed configuration, will allow the hardware to perform within the intended performance. There's nothing in BIOS that otherwise limits the performance of parts outside of its intended performance. Besides, once the OS is loaded, BIOS is no longer running, so it's a non-factor.

If you're running more modern, AAA budget games, then the processor is getting a little long in the tooth as far as performance goes. Most games still can't take full advantage of say even a 6C/12T processor and many games still rely on single core performance to get the bulk of the work done. And AFAIK, emulators are also heavily rely on single core performance.

 

[SkyNetRising]

CPU-Z Screenshots

Can you show CPU-Z memory section also?

 

[CharlieChapman]

The default settings in BIOS, outside of RAM speed configuration, will allow the hardware to perform within the intended performance. There's nothing in BIOS that otherwise limits the performance of parts outside of its intended performance. Besides, once the OS is loaded, BIOS is no longer running, so it's a non-factor.

If you're running more modern, AAA budget games, then the processor is getting a little long in the tooth as far as performance goes. Most games still can't take full advantage of say even a 6C/12T processor and many games still rely on single core performance to get the bulk of the work done. And AFAIK, emulators are also heavily rely on single core performance.

I just loaded Spiderman, and it never utilized 100% of any of my hardware but was able to push 70-100fps. Just odd even cranking that up doesn't eat more processor/gpu resources.

 

[CharlieChapman]

Can you show CPU-Z memory section also?

https://imgur.com/a/84t28xe

View: https://imgur.com/a/84t28xe


I also added an error that crashed an emulator earlier. The video froze, and was stuck in a perpetual loop. It didn't bluescreen, but it was locked up. I had to reset with the power button.
That's the first time I've ever ran into anything like that with this PC. I can't recall the last time it crashed. There was one of those errors for all processor 1-15? Assuming that may be 0-15 and refer to the 16 threads? I'm not sure.

 

[rgd1101]

brand and model of the psu?

 

[kerberos_20]

Gigabyte Aorus x470 Gaming WIFI 5 with bios from February 2022
Nvidia RTX 3050
Gskill F4-3000C-16-8GSXFB
m.2 500 GB drive

CPU-Z Screenshots

https://imgur.com/a/iHJoI4d

View: https://imgur.com/a/iHJoI4d

Have the BIOS on default settings, with XMP enabled. It still just feels... wrong. I've considered switching to Atlas OS to strip down Windows 10, but I'd like to consider I have some settings wrong first. For things like games, I get bottleneced at 35-50% CPU and GPU usage. Just can't seem to break that, especially in emulators that are CPU heavy. They just don't utilize but a fraction of the system resources, and I don't think I've ever seen any of the pieces of hardware hit 100% even when encoding videos.
I have access to other RAM, but even what I have rarely gets used beyond 8-10GB when using the most demanding emulators.
Any advice on settings or something I'm missing, that's blatently obvious?

do you have enabled virtualisation? if yes, then VBS (virtualisation based security) might be slowing down your cpu

other than that, games usualy doesnt utilise full cpu power, only few cores, gpu utilisation you can increase by increasing graphic details/resolution, you wont get more fps as you are CPU botlenecked (single core IPC performance)

 

[CharlieChapman]

Virtualization is enabled.
I suppose why I'm asking, is even if I increase graphical fidelity the GPU doesn't ramp up. It stops at 50ish percent, and performance just continues dropping without more utilization.
CPU never climbs either, but I'll try virtualization off.

do you have enabled virtualisation? if yes, then VBS (virtualisation based security) might be slowing down your cpu

other than that, games usualy doesnt utilise full cpu power, only few cores, gpu utilisation you can increase by increasing graphic details/resolution, you wont get more fps as you are CPU botlenecked (single core IPC performance does

 

[hotaru.hino]

Have you tried running a video card benchmarking tool like Ungine Superposition or 3DMark and seeing if the GPU usage goes up?