CPU/GPU bottlenecks

[LLv44_Mprhead]

Does anyone know if there is a site or tool where you could insert your system specifics and it would tell you if something is creating bottleneck? You know, something to help figuring out most balanced configuration.

[SeaW0lf]

Not that I know of, especially because the bottleneck can be caused by various factors at the same time and depending on the application. Usually, in my limited experience, if you have a computer with 4GB of RAM or more, bottleneck is mostly caused by HDD, software's with poor multithread optimization and, in the case of games, CPU and GPU, depending on the game that you are playing. Some of the modern games have a good multithread optimization, then you become GPU bound, which means the need of strong GPUs to play maxed out, but flight sims use a lot of CPU, and some sims are poorly optimized, so you need lots of CPU single threaded performance -- top of the line processors to heavily use one or two cores.

 

So, for me, bottleneck It is a bag of cats.

[Grifter]

What are your machine's specifications mprhead? Somebody here should be able to at least get you headed in the right direction. I agree with Seawolf, it's a "sticky wicket" kind of problem, even for the guys who test stuff every day for us folks who don't have the time, etc.

[dendroid]

Check your GPU usage in MSI Afterburner, if it is below 97-99 percent, CPU is the bottleneck.

[[JG2]Surf]

Does anyone know if there is a site or tool where you could insert your system specifics and it would tell you if something is creating bottleneck? You know, something to help figuring out most balanced configuration.

 

Post your computer specs and let's go from there.

[LLv44_Mprhead]

This doesn't actually have so much to do with my current system, but trying to figure out what would be optimal cheap gaming system At the moment I am lookin at AMD FX-4350 and FX-6350 cpus and I would like to find out at what point those cpus become bottleneck compared to graphic cards. Motherboard would be something with amd 970 and there would be 8Gb 1600MHz. In this build price is a factor also, it's kind of "what is the best thing 800 - 900 will buy", unfortunately we are talking about euros and in Finland... Same money in U.S. would go much further...

[Sim]

Install MSI Afterburner (or EVGA Precision) software. It comes bundled with On-Screen display server, which is used to display various hardware metrics while in the game. Configure the MSI Afterburner to display GPU related info. Then install HWiNFO - which can use the same On-Screen display server to display CPU related info. So now, while playing the game you can see exactly how your CPU is tasked (per-core or total) and see GPU related data at the same (clock usage, VRAM usage, etc). Figuring out if you are CPU or GPU bottle-necked should be a breeze, not to mention you can see exactly what kind of performance impact various graphic settings have on your system.