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4790k bottleneck an evga 1080?

Feb 19, 2018 2:18PM PST

I have a 4790k OC'DA TO 4.6 GHZ,I REPLACED MY ASUS GTX 980 TI with an Evga gtx 1080 ftw.....i ran starwars battlefront and my gpu usage was between 95 to 98%..it nver hit 99 or 100% .i was told as long as you gt --100% out of the gpu thn youre not botlenecking....but i nver seen 99 or 100%,is this a problem? should i OC the 4790k to 4.7 or 4.8( which i can i just chose not to) reason being i use 1.3 volts at 4.6,to ge -to- 4.7 it- want 1.3 volts,and 4.8 wants like 1.35 or so,i figured why beat t-he chip up more for just 200 more megahertz,the colling is fine,it satys at like 70 iaaaash,i just wante-d some experienced opinions if i could,thanks.

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Nope.
Feb 19, 2018 2:32PM PST

The lowly i5-2500 could drive a trio of video cards.

Even your post shows the GPU at over 95% so there is no question here about the bottlenecking.

-> Just recently we had a long discussion about low GPU performance and the GPU appeared to be in the slower PCIe slot. But a GPU at 95+% is showing that it's pretty maxed out.

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PS. Tesselation and more. Enough to make gamers go bald.
Feb 20, 2018 8:25AM PST

Worth watching to the end.

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Cpu
Feb 20, 2018 2:14AM PST

What sort of cpu usage do you see when running this game?

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cpu usage during star wars battlefront
Feb 20, 2018 3:37PM PST

ythrough hw monitor,it actually seperate---------s to 8 cores,using the virtual cores i guess,and the highest any of the cores went was 96%,but while playing it was like low 50 to high 80ish most of the time,im convinced it-s not bottleneckig now lol,thanks a lot for the help guys