Is it normal for my cpu to run only at 1% usage??

[monoiyuuki]

I heard that the main problem is bottlenecking

my rig is

R5 3600
16 gb ram 3200 mhz
rtx 2060
2 tb ssd + 6 tb hdd
A lot of fan, my cpu never exceed 75 C on stress test

any suggestion is appreciated

thanks

[_I_]

find out what is using it
task manager or resource monitor can help

there is always a bottleneck
if you play at 3x 4k in surround, then its the gpu
if you play at 720p1000+hz display then its the cpu

[monoiyuuki]

Originally posted by _I_:

find out what is using it
task manager or resource monitor can help

there is always a bottleneck
if you play at 3x 4k in surround, then its the gpu
if you play at 720p1000+hz display then its the cpu

Task manager doesnt really help much to me, the cpu iddling at 3 - 4% and gpu iddling at 0%

Usually i always play games at 1080p 60 fps with one 144 hz monitor

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Are you alt+tabbing out of a full screen game to look at these %

That could be your issue right there.

[Spook]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Are you alt+tabbing out of a full screen game to look at these %

That could be your issue right there.

Hehe, that would be something.

OP, i recommend you learn how to use RTSS / Afterburner. That way you can, among other things, watch your CPU and GPU usage in-game.

Your setup is quite balanced. Ryzen processors respond well to faster ram. Your processor should do most 3600c18 kits on xmp. Could be an upgrade worth the money, unless you are currently running 3200c14.

If you are looking to stick with this motherboard for a couple more years i'd recommend a dual rank 2x16GB 3600c18 kit of ram. Add a second hand 5800X3D down the line and you'll be good up to a 4070-4080.

[monoiyuuki]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Are you alt+tabbing out of a full screen game to look at these %

That could be your issue right there.

im using an afterburner to look at those %

[monoiyuuki]

Originally posted by Spook:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Are you alt+tabbing out of a full screen game to look at these %

That could be your issue right there.

Hehe, that would be something.

OP, i recommend you learn how to use RTSS / Afterburner. That way you can, among other things, watch your CPU and GPU usage in-game.

Your setup is quite balanced. Ryzen processors respond well to faster ram. Your processor should do most 3600c18 kits on xmp. Could be an upgrade worth the money, unless you are currently running 3200c14.

If you are looking to stick with this motherboard for a couple more years i'd recommend a dual rank 2x16GB 3600c18 kit of ram. Add a second hand 5800X3D down the line and you'll be good up to a 4070-4080.

Thanks for the tips, i'll look up for those parts in the future, got some thought to upgrade to 7600 for some times now

[Spook]

If you are already looking to upgrade platform, i'd just do that.

Still, very weird that CPU is showing only 1% usage. Does your fps reflect this? Like 5-10fps or something? What game does this happen in?

[monoiyuuki]

Originally posted by Spook:

If you are already looking to upgrade platform, i'd just do that.

Still, very weird that CPU is showing only 1% usage. Does your fps reflect this? Like 5-10fps or something? What game does this happen in?

Mainly on resident evil 4 remake
And yes, sometimes it cause the game to run like only 8 fps or lower even when i was sitting on the main menu, the only fix that i know so far is to restart my pc

[r.linder]

If you're only tracking a single core in afterburner settings, it's just reporting the usage for that core, not the average across all cores, so if that core isn't actually being used by the process then it'll report little to no actual usage for that core

CPU usage you never want to be high anyway, unless there's major performance issues then there's no problem here, just a misunderstanding, the CPU will only be utilised as much as it needs to

[Spook]

Odd, though it seems you are not the only one having CPU issue with RE4 Remake. Try asking in the RE4 Remake discussion board.

Next time it does this, you could try exiting to desktop and pressing CTRL+WIN+SHIFT+B, which to my understanding restarts the Windows compositor. If that fixes it, you might be looking at a graphics/driver issue.

Oh and set Max performance in the NVIDIA control panel for the game's profile and see if that fixes things if you haven't already. If the GPU for some reason goes into a lower power state the CPU will just sit there idle while GPU will still show full utilisation but with low fps.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Try using just Task manager (on Performance tab); If CPU is showing one graph, right click the graph and change the graph to Logical instead of Overall. Logical will show % of each Core.

If you want something better, use AMD Ryzen Master.

Then for GPU, use GPU-Z, if you have Onboard + Dedicated GPUs, select the GPU name down at very bottom, once that is done click Sensors tab. Once on the sensors tab you can re-size the GPU-Z window how you like so Sensors is easier to view.