I think my CPU may just bottleneck a GTX 1070. Here are my CPU and GPU usage while playing an Overwatch match on pretty much all high settings. The CPU is shown in the picture and GPU is a EVGA GTX 960. Do you guys think I should upgrade my CPU before getting a 1070 or?
Posted Jun 19, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC
You should be fine with an i5. Thing is (most likely) your task-manager shows only your first cpu core's usage.
If you are afraid it will bottleneck, go download MSI Afterburner and let it run through playing overwatch. It will show every core's usage. Normally the first core is used more because it runs all the stuff that doesnt work with multi-core (non-games).
Afterall you can still overclock your i5 if you feel you dont have enough power, but for Overwatch you should be more than fine!
Actually task manager (Win8.1) shows overall CPU utilization.
If you right-click the graph you can go to "Change graph to" -> "Logical Processors" and it will show them all separate, but if the single graph is showing 85% utilization, that's over all of his logical processors.
Ok I see :) Im on Win 10 and have been noticing the task manager showing way different utilization than MSI Afterburner so I thought it had to be that way (as afterburner showed similar usage only on cpu1)
no the i5 is fine
Oh ok. Is it normal to get that high CPU usage though?
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Cool, thank you.
not sure as I dont play overwatch but I think it is very cpu intensive