what is the optimal cpu usage while gaming?

[alfaro]

on your opinion what should it be? is 100% 80% 70? 60?-lower?

 

[k1114]

There isn't really an optimal and it's a bit more complicated than overall cpu usage. The reason is the number of cores being used. 25% on a quad core could be using 100% of just 1 core which is bottlenecking. You don't want usage to be near maxed on any core or you are probably bottlenecking. Otherwise if it's not near max you're fine.

 

[xfiremadex]

It's really hard to decide whats the "optimal" or "average" cpu usage when playing a game because all cpu's are different and have different powers and abilities, but on a high end i7 4 core processor I would say maybe 60, 70 ish but something budget wise like a amd fx 6300 would be more like 65-80 percent. CPU usage doesn't always matter when multitasking or playing games though. The ram can have a big impact sometimes too.