Can CPU bottleneck affect ping in DOTA 2?

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NDDU Julius BSIT

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Its been a month now since I bought a GTX 750Ti StormX OC and paired it with an AMD A4-6300 Dual Core (cuz I am a douchebag and I forgot that it will bottleneck) and I noticed when playing DOTA 2 on the AMD IGPU before the upgrade, I didn't see much effect on the ping I get about 92 ms and 112 during clashes but when the CPU was bottlenecking the 750Ti, noticed the ping was about 128 ms on average. I believe its not the ISP because we just recently upgraded our internet from 1 Mbps to 3.5 Mbps.

Playing DOTA 2 on my laptop which is more than capable showed 56 ms . Is it that much of a factor to affect the ping?
 
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laviniuc

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if you're on wifi, try to get a utp cable connection instead to test. also switch the details levels when running the gtx to the same as when you were on the integrated. i would guess the game increased details levels and that caused the cpu to have more of an impact
 
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No it does not. Ping is an ICMP echo packet. It simply measures the trip time of the packet from your computer to the destination and back. High ping is caused by your Internet Connection or the Game Server. The components of your computer would be irrelevant and be a simple coincidence. Unless your laptop somehow has better connection to your internet over your desktop say WiFi interference or better network adaptor.
 
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Is DOTA 2 really that CPU intensive? Used MSI Afterburner OSD Details on my laptop while playing showed 86% GPU load and 35% CPU load on average
 
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Hmmm...its sort of strange... both my laptop and desktop are connected by a Realtek Gigabit adapter and both have the same UTP cable brand and length... Internet service upgraded from 1 Mbps to 3.5 Mbps [Philippines :( ]
 
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Cross55y is likely correct.

The CPU could potentially limit the NUMBER of data packets sent, but I don't think the CPU has any control over the packets after they have been created (then sent, returned and PING time can be calculated.)

Of course as suggested you can drop the resolution and quality settings down to see if that has an effect.

Long-term I'm sure you're thinking about replacing the APU with a (compatible) quad-core CPU. Check your exact motherboard support list.

X4-750K or similar. (You have FM2 or FM2+ motherboard likely)

Not sure if THIS is compatible (it's FM2+): http://pcpartpicker.com/product/94s8TW/amd-cpu-ad880kxbjcsbx
 
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No effect it is still the same. Anyways waiting fot that X4-880K though costs around 9000 pesos here in the philippines thanks for the answers
 
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