CPU usage 75-100% Gpu 50-75%

ShroomX · Sep 5, 2014

Ok so I am playing battlefield 4, and I had afterburner open monitoring the usage. There should be no bottleneck. I am not sure of what to do or what to try to alleviate this. My cpu temp did get kind of high at 62C

Fx 6300
GTX 750 sc
GS 700 psu
8 gb ram

gear999 · Sep 5, 2014

The latest patch for BF4 pretty much screwed everyone. Your CPU should NOT be bottlenecking that GPU unless one is faulty.

ShroomX · Sep 5, 2014

I did notice some artifacting a few weeks ago, but I haven't seen it in a while. Could my card be going bad and causing the low usage? How did he latest patch mess everyone up

gear999 · Sep 5, 2014

How long have you had the card for?

Also, the latest patch crippled performance for everyone. People went from having 120-150 FPS to 40-50 FPS.

ShroomX · Sep 5, 2014

I have had it for about 3 months. I am actually about to take it out and clean it, as well as the rest of everything inside. Also I will register it on evga just in case it decides to crap out me. I am gonna up grade soon too. 7950 or 280x

logainofhades · Sep 5, 2014

62c is pretty much max for most AMD CPU's. I would say you are thermal throttling.

ShroomX · Sep 5, 2014

Yea, I am cleaning it right no, I am going to change where it is sitting too. see if that helps at all

mdocod · Sep 5, 2014

Bottle-necking can and does always occur on either the CPU or GPU in any configuration depending on the game conditions and visual settings (unless throttle is induced, like Vsync, creating a forced intentional bottleneck). There's nothing particularly wrong with this in and of itself.

What resolution and detail and post processing settings are you using and what sort of FPS are you getting? If the FPS is fine but the GPU is not being fully utilized, the answer is to simply turn UP the visual quality until the GPU is saturated with work.

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The 95W AMD OEM HSF is garbage. If you're using that you should swap it for something with heat-pipes. Doesn't have to be big or fancy. Even a $20 unit with 3 heat pipes and a 90mm fan is an enormous upgrade over the stock block of aluminium that AMD ships these with. The CNPS5X or A11 or AR02 or TX3 or Vortex Plus, all<$30 and all will keep an FX-6300 well below thermal margins at stock clocks (in fact, they will even support a bit of overclocking in most cases).

What motherboard is this on? Provided you have something of decent quality it might be worth doing some conservative performance tuning. IMO the FX-6300 really hit pay-dirt when overclocked to ~4.4ghz+ (the practical limits tend to be in the 4.2-4.8ghz range depending on available cooling, VRMs, and specific CPU voltage/leakage characteristics).

ShroomX · Sep 5, 2014

I play at 900p all low setting accept for aa post on medium. My local startech store has a deep cool brand cpu cooler for 20 dollars, and it has 6 heat pipes. As for my motherboard it is this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130657

logainofhades · Sep 6, 2014

ShroomX :

Not a very good board, sadly. That cooler should be far better than the crappy stock one.

ShroomX · Sep 7, 2014

Yea the Mobo came with the computer. At the time I really didn't know much, but the price I paid, you couldn't beat it.

logainofhades · Sep 8, 2014

Sure I could, as I live close enough to a Microcenter.

ShroomX · Sep 8, 2014

I paid 370 for the entire computer, better than the slimline hp I got for near the same price!

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