I recently build a new pc for gaming. I wanted to build one that would play the newest games at 4k. I used the Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 6 board with an i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 32 Gigs (4x16 sticks) of G.skill TridentZ PC4-3200 PC4-25600 RAM, and 2 GTX 980s in SLI.
The games I was playing primarily were Fallout 4, and Division. They were playing ok, but I thought I should have been getting better performance from my new pc. I use Logitech's ARX controller to monitor my CPU, and GPU usage and Temps while I play. since I wasn't getting the FPS I wanted at 4K I lowered the resolution to 2560 x 1440, even still when I max out the graphics to ultra, I get an FPS of around 40.
I wasn't too happy with the performance of my new PC and blamed the Motherboard for only having 1x16 PCI slot and 1x8 PCI slot for my GPUs. So I bought a Gigabyte z170x-G1 thinking that having 2x16 PCI slots would improve performance. So far it does seem to look better and the FPS are up (still only at 2560 x 1440). However I have noticed that with the previous board running the game (the Division) would only use approximately 30 ~ 35 Percent of the cpu, and with the new board it uses 40 ~50 percent of the CPU with spikes up to 95~98 percent.
I am just wondering why or what would cause the higher CPU usage and spikes, or is this something that is normal. also I am considering ditching the 2 980s and upping to two 980-Ti's.
The games I was playing primarily were Fallout 4, and Division. They were playing ok, but I thought I should have been getting better performance from my new pc. I use Logitech's ARX controller to monitor my CPU, and GPU usage and Temps while I play. since I wasn't getting the FPS I wanted at 4K I lowered the resolution to 2560 x 1440, even still when I max out the graphics to ultra, I get an FPS of around 40.
I wasn't too happy with the performance of my new PC and blamed the Motherboard for only having 1x16 PCI slot and 1x8 PCI slot for my GPUs. So I bought a Gigabyte z170x-G1 thinking that having 2x16 PCI slots would improve performance. So far it does seem to look better and the FPS are up (still only at 2560 x 1440). However I have noticed that with the previous board running the game (the Division) would only use approximately 30 ~ 35 Percent of the cpu, and with the new board it uses 40 ~50 percent of the CPU with spikes up to 95~98 percent.
I am just wondering why or what would cause the higher CPU usage and spikes, or is this something that is normal. also I am considering ditching the 2 980s and upping to two 980-Ti's.
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