Should I upgrade my CPU? - Page 2

mercury228 · 06-09-2012, 23:28 | posts: 121

I also see that my gpu usage is not really that high only about 50%

Pill Monster · 06-09-2012, 23:38 | posts: 20,439 | Location: NZ

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Originally Posted by mercury228

I also see that my gpu usage is not really that high only about 50%

Seems your CPU is bottlenecking the GPU which really surprises me....OC it to 4Ghz and set all the BF3 graphics options to max, see if that doesn't smooth out your frame rate...

Post back results...

Oh one more thing - raise the CPU/NB to 2400Mhz, it will def help.

---TK--- · 06-09-2012, 23:50 | posts: 14,674 | Location: New Jersey, USA

hes going to run out of vram setting everything to the max on bf3. you should hit a gpu bottleneck way before a cpu bottleneck on single player

Pill Monster · 06-09-2012, 23:55 | posts: 20,439 | Location: NZ

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Originally Posted by ---TK---

hes going to run out of vram setting everything to the max on bf3. you should hit a gpu bottleneck way before a cpu bottleneck on single player

Shouldn't do...with BF3 maxed I was only using about 1.5GB from memory (it's been ages).

Mind you that was at 1600x1200, so you could be right if he uses a higher res....*shrugs*.

PinguX · 06-10-2012, 00:01 | posts: 794

2GB should be enough for 1920x1080 on ultra, is the in game vsync off and what settings are you using in the nvidia panel ?

---TK--- · 06-10-2012, 00:03 | posts: 14,674 | Location: New Jersey, USA

oh nm thought he still got a 570

Pill Monster · 06-10-2012, 00:10 | posts: 20,439 | Location: NZ

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Originally Posted by mercury228

I also see that my gpu usage is not really that high only about 50%

You don't by chance have anything running that could be taxing the CPU? Like antivirus maybe, or a bunch of crapware services..?

---TK--- · 06-10-2012, 00:16 | posts: 14,674 | Location: New Jersey, USA

try different drivers OP and update your specs. kepler is very young and it will take time for nvidia to iron out the drivers. if you still have your 570 put that in to test

mercury228 · 06-10-2012, 03:17 | posts: 121

Hey guys thanks for the responses. I will go thru and look at all of the things that are suggested. I dont know what it could be, and their have been issues with evga 670s. Batman arkham city only used 30-40% of my gpu.