hello all.
I was wondering if I could ask your opinion wether my system is currently CPU bottlenecked?
I currently have a I7 950 (bloomfield) over clocked to 4GHz (3.9 currently). It was in fact an overclockers bundle.
6 gig of ram
a 6990 and a 6970 both running at 880/1300
Im running bf3 in eyefinity, and most of the time its fine.
on the 64 player maps, most of the time my system runs fine, but occasionally, I notice my cpu spikes to the very high 90's and possibly 100% on the bf3 graph, the yellow spike goes over the green GPU line.
Is this due to my CPU being too slow? i have hyper threading switched off. If I switch it on, BF3 runs like a pig on stilts...
If I upgraded to Ivy bridge, would I notice a big differance?
any information on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
I was wondering if I could ask your opinion wether my system is currently CPU bottlenecked?
I currently have a I7 950 (bloomfield) over clocked to 4GHz (3.9 currently). It was in fact an overclockers bundle.
6 gig of ram
a 6990 and a 6970 both running at 880/1300
Im running bf3 in eyefinity, and most of the time its fine.
on the 64 player maps, most of the time my system runs fine, but occasionally, I notice my cpu spikes to the very high 90's and possibly 100% on the bf3 graph, the yellow spike goes over the green GPU line.
Is this due to my CPU being too slow? i have hyper threading switched off. If I switch it on, BF3 runs like a pig on stilts...
If I upgraded to Ivy bridge, would I notice a big differance?
any information on this matter would be greatly appreciated!