3570k (somehow) bottlenecking my gpu

iL4D

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Jun 18, 2014
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My i5 3570k is running at 95-100% usage in pretty much every recent demanding game, except in BF4 using Mantle. i also get a significant 30-40% FPS boost when using Mantle. I've tried overclocking/disabling turbo boost, and the temperatures hover around 80C at stock clockspeed while gaming, so it can't be throttling right? I also tried a fresh windows 8.1 install, no luck.

Relevant specs:
- AMD Sapphire 7970
- i5 3570k
-Corsair cx750 psu
- Kingston HyperX Blu 1x4 gb ram
- Msi Z77-G45 motherboard
- AMD 14.6 beta drivers
-Latest intel chipset drivers
 
Solution
Building on what the guy above me said, if you're using the stock CPU cooler, take a look at the cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. Only 30$ and it does a great job keeping my CPU cool at 4.4GHz.

zaysk

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Mar 10, 2013
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Building on what the guy above me said, if you're using the stock CPU cooler, take a look at the cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. Only 30$ and it does a great job keeping my CPU cool at 4.4GHz.
 
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