Hi all,
I always heard a lot of people getting 60 fps on high-ultra settings in games such as BF1, Forza Horizon 3 etc with their GTX 970.
So yesterday I decided to monitor a bit the hardware on ultra settings. While I played BF1, my FPS spiked between 45-55 all the time and at some points (for example during an explosion) It also went down to 34 FPS,
The reading from HW Monitor was that my GPU had between 80% - 91% of load while the CPU was on 97% average load..
I started to fiddle with graphics settings and when I reduced CPU intensive settings and left everything else on Ultra, I was playing at 56-60 fps @ 1080p whit loads of 75-81% of CPU and 99% on GPU. I reduced CPU intensive settings on other games like Forza H 3 and roughly had the same results.
So after I've done this I figured out that my CPU is bottlenecking my system, so my questions are:
a) Does this mean CPU bottlenecking or I might be wrong?
b) I'm planning to get the new i7 7700k, do you think that getting this CPU and keep my current card will increase the chances of getting what I want? (ie. 1080p @ 60 fps)
c) I know that I did not mention this but I currently only have 8gb RAM in fact planning to upgrade to 16. Could RAM be a limiting factor since on such games I've sometimes saw it using 94% of it?
Sorry for this very long post but I tried to explain my problem as much as possible.
Please, below find my specs so maybe you can judge this problem by looking at them.
Thank you for your help.
Specs:
CPU - Intel Core i5 6600
GPU - EVGA GTX 970 SC
MB - Asus Z170M- PLUS
RAM - Corsair Vengance 8 GB
OS - Windows 10
I always heard a lot of people getting 60 fps on high-ultra settings in games such as BF1, Forza Horizon 3 etc with their GTX 970.
So yesterday I decided to monitor a bit the hardware on ultra settings. While I played BF1, my FPS spiked between 45-55 all the time and at some points (for example during an explosion) It also went down to 34 FPS,
The reading from HW Monitor was that my GPU had between 80% - 91% of load while the CPU was on 97% average load..
I started to fiddle with graphics settings and when I reduced CPU intensive settings and left everything else on Ultra, I was playing at 56-60 fps @ 1080p whit loads of 75-81% of CPU and 99% on GPU. I reduced CPU intensive settings on other games like Forza H 3 and roughly had the same results.
So after I've done this I figured out that my CPU is bottlenecking my system, so my questions are:
a) Does this mean CPU bottlenecking or I might be wrong?
b) I'm planning to get the new i7 7700k, do you think that getting this CPU and keep my current card will increase the chances of getting what I want? (ie. 1080p @ 60 fps)
c) I know that I did not mention this but I currently only have 8gb RAM in fact planning to upgrade to 16. Could RAM be a limiting factor since on such games I've sometimes saw it using 94% of it?
Sorry for this very long post but I tried to explain my problem as much as possible.
Please, below find my specs so maybe you can judge this problem by looking at them.
Thank you for your help.
Specs:
CPU - Intel Core i5 6600
GPU - EVGA GTX 970 SC
MB - Asus Z170M- PLUS
RAM - Corsair Vengance 8 GB
OS - Windows 10
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