graphics card/processor help!

[Zorlin]

Can someone tell me how I have a pegged single core here?

http://i.imgur.com/ZjVDp.jpg

Because I see balancing of cores and no single core pegged, yet I see pegged gpu. Something tells me that those that say the cpu is a limiting factor don't monitor their cpu or gpu usage while playing.

For the record, I have never seen a single core pegged, let alone all the cores pegged, and I have my task manager up all the time, because it's pretty easy with 3 monitors.

Lol yr taxing yr GPU at 99% the cpu doesnt need to work harder if the card is getting all the data it needs from the cpu already. Try 1080p instead of 5kish set frame rate to 60 and look at yr cores one will be pretty taxed.

[nasomi]

Lol yr taxing yr GPU at 99% the cpu doesnt need to work harder if the card is getting all the data it needs from the cpu already. Try 1080p instead of 5kish set frame rate to 60 and look at yr cores one will be pretty taxed.

That's with all settings maxxed, no AO or DoF. Not sure how to take it higher. The 580 outperforms the 6970, so how are you reaching a bottleneck on the cpu before the gpu if I'm reaching GPU bottleneck LONG before my CPU gets anywhere near cap. The game simply doesn't tax the cpu very much, how is that difficult to understand?

Do you know what 1080p is? instead of 5kish? What does that even mean? I'm running 1920x1200, which is "1200p", a higher resolution than you are running.

[Zorlin]

That's with all settings maxxed, no AO or DoF. Not sure how to take it higher. The 580 outperforms the 6970, so how are you reaching a bottleneck on the cpu before the gpu if I'm reaching GPU bottleneck LONG before my CPU gets anywhere near cap. The game simply doesn't tax the cpu very much, how is that difficult to understand?

Do you know what 1080p is? instead of 5kish? What does that even mean? I'm running 1920x1200, which is "1200p", a higher resolution than you are running.

You dont get what im saying yr maxing yr gpu therefore the cpu doesnt need to process more data for the card since it doesnt take anymore if you lower the res yr card will have less work and therefore yr cpu can bump more fps into yr card. Try it 1080p everything maxed no AO or DoF FPS cap in game to 60FPS. Then look at your cores. Honestly you have no idea how to nail down a bottleneck between cpu/gpu.

Bumping the res only makes the card work harder not the cpu. You can see this in the benchmark when some ppl get the same scores with 720p/1080p. For example if you have a 580gtx on a core2duo the cpu will cap you around 3k in both resolutions cause the cpu isnt able to process the data fast enough to keep with the card. The resolution work is all done within the gfx not the cpu so having the card load 100% at 5kish will make the cpu work less then at 1080p where at 1080p the card can pull more fps making the cpu work harder. Honestly just try it yrself.