My gpu bottlenecking

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Galih Carlos

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I have asus rog gl553vd laptop with i7 7700hq , 1x8gb , gtx 1050m. I recently play fortnite battle royale and i found my gpu is bottlenecking my cpu (or vice versa, idk tho) because gpu usage is almost the same as cpu usage (around 45-65%)
hiw do i reduce the bottleneck? Should i overclock the gpu? But is it safe even tho if i p ut max fan speed?)
 
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geofelt
Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.

I note that you have one stick of ram.
That will run in slower single channel mode.
You can get a bit more cpu performance by adding another dimm of compatible ram.

Laptops are notorious for collecting dust in the cooling system.
See that dust is cleared our or your cpu may be throttling.
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With CPU/GPU usage being roughly the same (and below 100%), that's not a "bottleneck".

A "bottleneck" would be, for example, the GPU maxing out at 100% usage and the CPU barely breaking a sweat (say 99/100% and 30%).

It sounds well balanced currently - but what titles are you playing? If they're low requirement titles, then there's no problem.
If they're more demanding titles, you could try turning up settings (say from Medium presets to High - I'd assume Ultra is off the table for any demanding title on a 1050).

Another option from a bottlenecking standpoint, is the RAM. 8GB can be exceeded by quite a few modern titles, depending on settings & OS/other application requirements.

Are you monitoring your RAM utilization?
 
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geofelt

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Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.

I note that you have one stick of ram.
That will run in slower single channel mode.
You can get a bit more cpu performance by adding another dimm of compatible ram.

Laptops are notorious for collecting dust in the cooling system.
See that dust is cleared our or your cpu may be throttling.
 
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