Intel core i5 3570k bottleneck ?

Can you check your CPUs frequency while gaming? It maybe getting hot and thus downclocking and making the game lag. The 3570K shouldn't even be a bottleneck especially at 1080p resolutions.

See if the following helps, just copy-pasted from a previous post of mine (again):

Most of the heat is generated by your i5 CPU as compared to GPU and HDD/SSD. Lots of heat is generated when you run a CPU/GPU intensive application like a game, for instance. To prevent this overheating follow this:

1. Go to control panel -- Power options
2. Click 'Change plan settings' link present against the selected power plan.
3. Now click on 'Advanced power settings'.
4. Now expand 'Processor power management' and select 'Maximum processor state'.
5. Now select a lower-than-100 value such as 95.
6. Click OK. Done.

Doing the above underclocks the CPU depending upon the value chosen.

In my case, I chose the value as 99 on Core i5 480M. This just disabled turbo boost and the cpu ran at a maximum of stock clock speed.

The performance difference is NOT noticeable at all (for lower than 80 value, it might be noticeable).

Choosing the value as 99 reduced my cpu's temperature by around 20 deg C (that's a big big difference) and totally cured overheating.

If you're still wondering about the performance dip (which you shouldn't at all), then create a seperate power plan and apply the above settings to that plan. Now you can switch between normal power plan and this newly created optimized plan when you want. Just select the optimized plan from the taskbar before starting a cpu intensive application such as a game.

Yeah cpu seems to not having overheat issues at all. I run heavy games like bf3 on 55 c with standard stock cooler

Here is a picture of my cpu usage with five youtube videos on 1080p

[QUOTE=Dude;2342826]wilworrior, what else to you have running? 55c under load is not bad at all. I'm running the same thing as you(5 youtubes) but not getting so much usage on the cpu. I have an I5 but not the 3570K.

I reccomend you run a scan and run malware too.

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I just have like torrent mumble. Nothing special that should take that much cpu usage.

Dude said:

Open resource monitor and post a screen of the cpu tab