bench for CPU bottleneck?

[grandpatzer]

I'm curious to see if there is any game that makes my cpu the bottleneck.

anyone know any good bench game that puts heavy load on cpu?

Ive run Saints row 3 with CPU in sig and 2x 7950 and the cpu cores are 10-50% so wery little load.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Try Battlefield 3. That should put some load on the CPU.

 

[sleepylilazn]

I'm curious to see if there is any game that makes my cpu the bottleneck.

anyone know any good bench game that puts heavy load on cpu?

Ive run Saints row 3 with CPU in sig and 2x 7950 and the cpu cores are 10-50% so wery little load.

I'm going to assume that you are asking is what game will put significant load on your cpu. Most games are not very cpu intensive from what I understand. You can try Total War Shogun 2 or Starcraft 2 with a bunch of units on screen. That should put some strain on your cpu. I also heard that flight simulators puts a fair amount of strain on the cpu, but I'm not 100% sure because I don't play flight simulators.

Try Battlefield 3. That should put some load on the CPU.

BF3 is not cpu intensive at all.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I've heard Arma II is pretty CPU intensive.

 

[Rastalovich]

I'm going to assume that you are asking is what game will put significant load on your cpu. Most games are not very cpu intensive from what I understand. You can try Total War Shogun 2 or Starcraft 2 with a bunch of units on screen. That should put some strain on your cpu. I also heard that flight simulators puts a fair amount of strain on the cpu, but I'm not 100% sure because I don't play flight simulators.

BF3 is not cpu intensive at all.

It's gets trickier to judge the more cores the cpu has - and since the majority of games don't know cores, when something like a quad is hitting 25%, that means the game is struggling. i.e. 1 core at max. Even the ones who claim they're core-friendly seem to utilize duals and not quads.

The easiest people to speak to are those using things like G15 keyboards. If they're like me, I keep the performance tab on all the time. Games don't generally use more than 30-40% of 4g, 20% of 8g is currently being used playing Reckoning. The cpu meter is easy to check if a quad is hitting 25% and you can see 1 solid line. i.e. one core maxxed.

Biggest shocker I had was watching Crysis 2 run on a E8400 (around 3.8ghz) - both the cores on the G15 were showing full at all times. After that, tried it on a qx9650 at around 3.6ghz and it'd show 25/26% cycling through which core it maxxed.

Complicated thing to test. The G15's (or any external LCD utility monitor) are perfect for this tho.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

I'm going to assume that you are asking is what game will put significant load on your cpu. Most games are not very cpu intensive from what I understand. You can try Total War Shogun 2 or Starcraft 2 with a bunch of units on screen. That should put some strain on your cpu. I also heard that flight simulators puts a fair amount of strain on the cpu, but I'm not 100% sure because I don't play flight simulators.

BF3 is not cpu intensive at all.

Ye. Sorry about that I'm a bit of a noob

 

[grandpatzer]

Thanks for all the replies

I will try BF3, so I would assume as long as no core reaches 100% it is not cpu bottlenecked?

well I use Everest Lavalys for logging, When playing Saints Row 3 as a example it would have a line as:

core 0: 20%, Core 1: 9%, Core2: 52%. Core 3: 23%, Core4: 41%, Core5: 11%.

So unless it measures wrong the game is nowhere close to bottleneck CPU.

It's gets trickier to judge the more cores the cpu has - and since the majority of games don't know cores, when something like a quad is hitting 25%, that means the game is struggling. i.e. 1 core at max. Even the ones who claim they're core-friendly seem to utilize duals and not quads.

The easiest people to speak to are those using things like G15 keyboards. If they're like me, I keep the performance tab on all the time. Games don't generally use more than 30-40% of 4g, 20% of 8g is currently being used playing Reckoning. The cpu meter is easy to check if a quad is hitting 25% and you can see 1 solid line. i.e. one core maxxed.

Biggest shocker I had was watching Crysis 2 run on a E8400 (around 3.8ghz) - both the cores on the G15 were showing full at all times. After that, tried it on a qx9650 at around 3.6ghz and it'd show 25/26% cycling through which core it maxxed.

Complicated thing to test. The G15's (or any external LCD utility monitor) are perfect for this tho.

 

[marsey99]

underclock then overclock cpu and see how much impact it has on fps to see.

 

[Techie103]

BF3 is not cpu intensive at all.

Erm....I'm gonna say it is. BF3 puts four of eight threads on my 2600K at 45-50% usage. Bad Company 2 was even worse on my 1055T, utilizing all 6 cores @ 3.9GHz with 65-75% usage.

 

[sleepylilazn]

It's gets trickier to judge the more cores the cpu has - and since the majority of games don't know cores, when something like a quad is hitting 25%, that means the game is struggling. i.e. 1 core at max. Even the ones who claim they're core-friendly seem to utilize duals and not quads.

The easiest people to speak to are those using things like G15 keyboards. If they're like me, I keep the performance tab on all the time. Games don't generally use more than 30-40% of 4g, 20% of 8g is currently being used playing Reckoning. The cpu meter is easy to check if a quad is hitting 25% and you can see 1 solid line. i.e. one core maxxed.

Biggest shocker I had was watching Crysis 2 run on a E8400 (around 3.8ghz) - both the cores on the G15 were showing full at all times. After that, tried it on a qx9650 at around 3.6ghz and it'd show 25/26% cycling through which core it maxxed.

Complicated thing to test. The G15's (or any external LCD utility monitor) are perfect for this tho.

That's true. I didn't think about that.

Erm....I'm gonna say it is. BF3 puts four of eight threads on my 2600K at 45-50% usage. Bad Company 2 was even worse on my 1055T, utilizing all 6 cores @ 3.9GHz with 65-75% usage.

I'm going to say it's not. Is 45%-50% considered intensive?

 

[Jamesey162]

Simulation games are more CPU intensive, so that would be the likes of ArmA II or Microsoft's Flight Simulator X, I can't vouch for street cleaning simulator or anything else from that series thought

 

[Nculver]

I'm going to assume that you are asking is what game will put significant load on your cpu. Most games are not very cpu intensive from what I understand. You can try Total War Shogun 2 or Starcraft 2 with a bunch of units on screen. That should put some strain on your cpu. I also heard that flight simulators puts a fair amount of strain on the cpu, but I'm not 100% sure because I don't play flight simulators.

BF3 is not cpu intensive at all.

This, with a 4 versus 4 in shogun my 4.0 GHz 1100t bottlenecks my system. The game is pretty highly threaded too from what i have read. Guess you need a 3930K for 16,000 men on screen lol, or maybe some ex soviet super computer.