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CPU Bottleneck ?

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Hi Guy's,

Just thought I'd get some opinions from the experts on this. I've recently attempted to play Just Cause 3 and Ghost Recon Widlands (Beta). Both games ran extremely poorly with my CPU being pinned. Now admittedly, both of these games are console ports (I think) and don't seem to be optimised very well but is this something that I will be facing more often with newer releases ?

For GPU I'm running a 1070 FTW @ 1440p. Just wondering if it's truly time for an upgrade so that I don't restrict my GPU....

Specs:
GPU: EVGA 1070 FTW
CPU: i5 3570k
RAM: 8GB 2800Mhz (I think)

Thanks!
 
Have you checked your GPU usage while gaming? If you have EVGA Precision installed you can use the in-game overlay to get an idea.

I'm assuming your i5 is overclocked?
 
I think the 3570k is still fine...especially if you have it OC'd. You will free up a few % performance in CPU heavy games if you were to upgrade, but it's not going to be a dramatic improvement (especially at 1440p). There are no to very few games that would see a worthwhile imporvement in fps by upgrading IMO.

Unless you are limited by the platform features I think you can comfortably get another year or 2 with the 3570k (though I may be biased as I am running one). If you're not oc'd give it a go.
 
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Groove said:
Have you checked your GPU usage while gaming? If you have EVGA Precision installed you can use the in-game overlay to get an idea.

I'm assuming your i5 is overclocked?
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Yep, forgot to say it's OC @ 4.2. Btw, still loving the Monitor :)

I have Precision installed and the GPU doesn't seem to be throttling. It hums @ %97-%99 which I'm assuming is what it should be doing... On Ghost Recon overlay doesn't seem to work but if I look at the graphs after it's not maxing out but it's a beta game so not too worried there...

Bond007 said:
I think the 3570k is still fine...especially if you have it OC'd. You will free up a few % performance in CPU heavy games if you were to upgrade, but it's not going to be a dramatic improvement (especially at 1440p). There are no to very few games that would see a worthwhile imporvement in fps by upgrading IMO.

Unless you are limited by the platform features I think you can comfortably get another year or 2 with the 3570k (though I may be biased as I am running one). If you're not oc'd give it a go.
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That's what I was hoping to hear... Ideally I'd like to avoid upgrading for another year or 2 if I'm lucky....
 
Glad that you are still loving the monitor :thumb:

Like Bond said, for gaming four fast cores is pretty much all you need at the moment unless you are streaming at the same time or doing other stuff in the background. It might change over the current year but for now you should be able to get at least one more year out of your rig no problem, especially with a 1070 at 1440.
 
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Groove said:
Glad that you are still loving the monitor :thumb:

Like Bond said, for gaming four fast cores is pretty much all you need at the moment unless you are streaming at the same time or doing other stuff in the background. It might change over the current year but for now you should be able to get at least one more year out of your rig no problem, especially with a 1070 at 1440.
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That's what I wanted to hear :clap: I'll have to chalk up my experience in the passed few days to poorly configured games....
 
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