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6700k struggling to keep up with 2070super?

skiersteve12345

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time to upgrade now or wait for the 10 series? Just got off a 3 hours resident evil 2 binge (which is amazing) checked hw monitor and looks like my 6700k is struggling to keep up with the card however Im not sure if its acutally bottlenecking or not?

everycore was 100% maxed but the gpu was also 100% I thought bottleneck were 100% cpu but low gpu use? Im running at 1440p if that makes any differance,
temps are all good highest core 69 lowest 62, however my aio is 5 and a half years old now and was thinking of replacing it since it can go a bit crud inside and also now the warranty has also expired, the temps were awful but I replaced paste and that seemed to keep it ok for now, if I replace that was wondering if it was worth replacing the mobo and cpu too if the cpu is a bit dated now and holding the card back

Thanks for any replies :)
 
Ah bottlenecking, that bugbear that everyone seems afraid of these days.

Truth is, some games hit the cpu hard, and this can make diagnosis of this type of bottlenecking hard. What's it like in other games? Yes having a cpu ran at 100% can mean the gfx card won't perform as well as it should, but it might not be a massively major issue; or at least one worth throwing a few hundred quid on a new cpu/motherboard/memory combo to gain a single percentage figure improvement. Bottlenecks are weird things to deal with, you could easily put a 20% faster processor in there, only to find it doesn't give you that level of increase. As a gamer you should use games as your diagnosis tools, so try some other ones and look at, and monitor your systems performance on. I haven't played Res Evil 2 on pc, but it's possible the 100% cpu thing is just how it's coded. Were you happy with your fps? Any skipping or juddering? Any bumpy excessive dips/spikes in usage?

Bottlenecking is a definite thing, but every system under heavy load will have a bottleneck somewhere, plugging it sometimes doesn't do a lot. Anyway my point is, if you are happy with your frames, don't go chasing monsters around the magical performance forest - you may not ever get out.... Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just time consuming, trying to eek out that percent here there, or wherever you can - I leave that to the benchmarkers, and pay attention to their posts when I can.

Temps seem good, cpu still mostly decent. If you have the money you could upgrade, it just might not get you an awful lot, on top of what you've got. Check out other games performance before making your mind up.
 
skiersteve12345 said:
time to upgrade now or wait for the 10 series? Just got off a 3 hours resident evil 2 binge (which is amazing) checked hw monitor and looks like my 6700k is struggling to keep up with the card however Im not sure if its acutally bottlenecking or not?

everycore was 100% maxed but the gpu was also 100% I thought bottleneck were 100% cpu but low gpu use? Im running at 1440p if that makes any differance,
temps are all good highest core 69 lowest 62, however my aio is 5 and a half years old now and was thinking of replacing it since it can go a bit crud inside and also now the warranty has also expired, the temps were awful but I replaced paste and that seemed to keep it ok for now, if I replace that was wondering if it was worth replacing the mobo and cpu too if the cpu is a bit dated now and holding the card back

Thanks for any replies :)
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Interesting, I don't recall that game needing much from my 8700k even with a 2080ti. Perhaps it just doesn't like quad cores.


edit: Yeah here is gameplay with an 8700k - as you can see the 8700k is having a nice holiday with usage only averages about 20%.


Are you sure you don't other background apps eating up CPU cycles?

 
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A 6700K shouldn't be holding a 2070 back in that game specifically, especially at 1440p, so I'd imagine you have problems elsewhere (background crap stealing performance for example).

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what clock speed is the 6700k running at? if stock then thats might be why, i ran mine at 4.6 np in pretty much every game. so if stock you may want to look at overclocking it. also check what else is running in the background, you may have something else eating up performance like a miner virus or similar.
 
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henson0115 said:
what clocks is the 6700k running at? if stock then thats might be why, i ran mine at 4.6 np in pretty much every game. check what else is running int eh background, you may have something else eating up performance like a miner virus or similar.
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This was going to be my first question as well
 
henson0115 said:
what clock speed is the 6700k running at? if stock then thats might be why, i ran mine at 4.6 np in pretty much every game. so if stock you may want to look at overclocking it. also check what else is running in the background, you may have something else eating up performance like a miner virus or similar.
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4.5ghz @1.28v
 
henson0115 said:
well it aint that then, did you try checking background tasks whilst running the game? might shed some light on it. no way res 2 should be pushing your cpu to 100%.
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...and run task manager while gaming to see what's using the cpu at 100%. I wouldn't expect this cpu to bottleneck in the slightest, when my 4790k at 4.7ghz isn't either. My brother has been running a 3570k at 4.3ghz which was bottlenecking while gaming and switching to an i7 fixed it.

I'd imagine there is more than the game running that's sucking the cpu, anti virus, miner virus or something like Windows updates (which is notorious for this).
 
snips86x said:
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...and run task manager while gaming to see what's using the cpu at 100%. I wouldn't expect this cpu to bottleneck in the slightest, when my 4790k at 4.7ghz isn't either. My brother has been running a 3570k at 4.3ghz which was bottlenecking while gaming and switching to an i7 fixed it.

I'd imagine there is more than the game running that's sucking the cpu, anti virus, miner virus or something like Windows updates (which is notorious for this).
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To be honest you should be able to play a game, run a virus scan, playing youtube, streaming from twitch etc all at the same time with your game running totally smooth.
but quad cores can't manage that, so you have to be careful about stuff running in the background.
 
Grim5 said:
To be honest you should be able to play a game, run a virus scan, playing youtube, streaming from twitch etc all at the same time with your game running totally smooth.
but quad cores can't manage that, so you have to be careful about stuff running in the background.
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Agreed, but it also depends how lazy the devs have been with CPU utilization.
 
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