- May 23, 2023
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In short: I built my brother a PC this month, but I noticed in Warzone 2 that the PC is underperforming so it's led me to try to figure out what's going on.
PC specs:
CPU: i5-13500
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
GPU: AsRock 7900XT Phantom Gaming
PCparts link to show every part
Monitor is 1440p 165Hz
I have enabled XMP and ReBar
In Warzone I noticed that he was only getting 97-110 FPS with FSR 2.1 enabled. I found a youtube video that had a tip to tweak a config file in the game to make better use of the CPU, but even still it's only jumped to 120-130 FPS in a game that this PC should easily be hitting 165+ FPS in. I've played around with some different graphic settings, and trying out all the available upscaling modes, but the FPS are still relatively low.
I ran 3DMark Demo and I noticed his score is below average by a fair bit, but it's the CPU dragging it down. I also ran Cinebench R23 , and the scores are a little lower than some of the examples I looked at. The multicore by 1000, and single core by a few hundred. So nothing too drastic, but still lower.
So after I ran those tests, I opened up Warzone with task manager on the CPU tab. A lot of the cores are hitting 100% usage during Warzone, which indicates a CPU bottleneck, but when I compare the FPS to videos of other people with an i5 13500 with similar or better cards (4070Ti, 4090, 4080, 7900XT) at 1440p on ultra they are so much higher FPS in this game.
So what in the world could be causing this issue? Is there some weird setting I am missing to flip a switch on?? My guess right now is it's the CPU, due to what I saw in Task Manager, but I'm really at a loss right now.
Update: So I learned about gears for ram. The PC was on gear 2, which was running at 1/2 ratio, and I changed it to gear 1 for a 1:1 ratio. It's helped some, but unfortunately the system isn't very stable in gear 1, so I've been playing with the voltages. But I still do not know why the i5-13500 is downclocking to 4.05 GHz when playing games but runs at 4.65GHz when out of games.
PC specs:
CPU: i5-13500
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
GPU: AsRock 7900XT Phantom Gaming
PCparts link to show every part
Monitor is 1440p 165Hz
I have enabled XMP and ReBar
In Warzone I noticed that he was only getting 97-110 FPS with FSR 2.1 enabled. I found a youtube video that had a tip to tweak a config file in the game to make better use of the CPU, but even still it's only jumped to 120-130 FPS in a game that this PC should easily be hitting 165+ FPS in. I've played around with some different graphic settings, and trying out all the available upscaling modes, but the FPS are still relatively low.
I ran 3DMark Demo and I noticed his score is below average by a fair bit, but it's the CPU dragging it down. I also ran Cinebench R23 , and the scores are a little lower than some of the examples I looked at. The multicore by 1000, and single core by a few hundred. So nothing too drastic, but still lower.
So after I ran those tests, I opened up Warzone with task manager on the CPU tab. A lot of the cores are hitting 100% usage during Warzone, which indicates a CPU bottleneck, but when I compare the FPS to videos of other people with an i5 13500 with similar or better cards (4070Ti, 4090, 4080, 7900XT) at 1440p on ultra they are so much higher FPS in this game.
So what in the world could be causing this issue? Is there some weird setting I am missing to flip a switch on?? My guess right now is it's the CPU, due to what I saw in Task Manager, but I'm really at a loss right now.
Update: So I learned about gears for ram. The PC was on gear 2, which was running at 1/2 ratio, and I changed it to gear 1 for a 1:1 ratio. It's helped some, but unfortunately the system isn't very stable in gear 1, so I've been playing with the voltages. But I still do not know why the i5-13500 is downclocking to 4.05 GHz when playing games but runs at 4.65GHz when out of games.
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