Windows 10: What is Bottlenecking my PC? Bottleneck in Gaming explained

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If you are a gamer, you probably have heard the term Bottlenecking. It’s been thrown a lot to the user, especially when talking about customizable computers. In this post, we are going to see how you can find out what is Bottlenecking your Windows PC. We will also everything to know about Bottlenecking in gaming. What is […]

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bottleneck question

well we first need to define what is a bottleneck , see the definition you are trying to impose almost like make everybody in a bottle neck , we just boost settings to high or ultra on most recent games and then the majority of rigs would come to their knees this is a given . if however bottleneck is utilized how the op is seeing it , where if having an old cpu would cap the performance of new gpu to same performance as current graphics performance he has , then no , most probably he will notice a gain , just not the most optimal gain .

the problem i discussed later is a problem related to ram bus where it was often reported that combining new gpus with older tech rams may result in systematic hickups i.e freezes in rendering from time to time due to slow decompression and transfer of high quality textures during gameplay , i however have no accurate figures of what frequencies are known to be the more hideous so i just raised it as a concern .

as for monitors being a bottleneck , now this is controversial as v-sync , g-sync and f-sync were all solutions that came out to address this problem in particular , so is not a bottleneck from even your perspective any more .

 

bottleneck question

ram speed is 1333

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bottleneck question

What are you talking about. Of course there's such thing as a bottleneck. It's called "bound". High resolutions yield GPU bound situations, while high framerates yield CPU bound situations, depending on the game. You want a system that plays each other in balance. Developers usually don't include bounds or bottlenecks in their system requirements because they are targeted at a specific framerate and detail level. OP is running a 60Hz display so he'll be bottlenecked by the monitor if the framerate goes over 60 for example. 98% gpu usage and 70% cpu usage means there's headroom for an upgrade. In OP's shoes I would monitor the usages of both the cpu and gpu in Afterburner while playing to determin if there's a bottleneck somewhere. The i5 2500 is getting quite old now. Fortunately games still likes high single core frequencies, but the shift for multi cores has increased drastically the last few years.

Battlefield uses Frostbite Engine, an engine that favors processors in high-numbered matches. I haven't played BF3 or 4 since they came out so I don't know exactly where the bottleneck starts and on what cpus/gpus. Pairing a RTX 2060 with a i5 2500 seems, to me anyway, like a bad idea. Especially considering that you're paying privilage for ray tracing cores on any RTX card, something that definitely will affect the cpu in some way when it's enabled. BF3 and 4 doesn't use it either. Bumping the resolution to 4K might work in favor for the 2060, but my suggestion would be to upgrade cheaper and wait/save for a more feature complete build later on. Just my opinion of course.