Identifying a Bottleneck?

[kinger8938]

I've never understood the act of bottlenecking. I get what it means roughly, but what are the signs to show it's happening?

I was Playing Control by Remedy last night. (Quite a demanding game) Pressing the middle button on the control pad brings up a beta game U.i from Microsoft and part of that shows usage in percentages for CPU, GPU and RAM.

I Pinned it so I could track it while playing. When I got in to a gun fight my CPU usage hits 100% and performance drops a bit. The GPU seemed to hover around 50-60% but I'll confirm that as I was .ore concerned about the GPU.

My specs are as follows
I5 2500k @4.5
GTX1070
16GB Ram.

Upon a bit of googling, I saw many folks talking about concerns with upgrading to this graphics card on my motherboard which I think is an Asrock Extreme 3 Gen3 with worries about maybe needing bios upgrades to support the card etc (I've never upgraded the bios, card plugged in and worked so I assume its fine)

Entry level stuff I know, go gentle on me any advice appreciated.

 

[kinger8938]

See if you can ebay a second hand i7-2600k and overclock it.

Probably make a nice difference for little money, guess it depends if you can find one that works for cheap enough.

Otherwise your CPU is getting on, so either put up with it or its a new motherboard/CPU/RAM combo for you.

That's an angle I hadn't considered actually!

I'm looking to rebuild the PC based around a Ryzen 3600 asap, pretty much just keeping the 1070 and my storage. So hopefully it will make me notice a difference. But will a 3600 then be too much for this card?