theagilecoder
Recruit
Yeah, as of now nothing in the background when I am gaming. I'll keep an eye out for 1% lows and hope Hardware Unboxed are correct when they say AMD gpus when paired with older CPUs actually give better 1% lows as they dont offload scheduling to CPU like nvidia GPU does.You have 25% overclock on that processor from 3.5 to 4.4 GHz. It is working on it's full potential. If you have things running in the background I am sure the card will bottleneck.
Games do run fine on 4 cores, but remember your mouse, sound, network etc drivers are running on core 0, if you had 6 or 8 core processor, you can leave the core 0 dedicated to windows tasks and shift the game to the other cores. Game will still use the same amount of cores, but now you will have better frame times if you care about that stuff. FPS will remain the same, but the game does feel more smoother.
A slight bottleneck on GPU is no big deal, real problem begins when you card is only giving half the FPS it's capable of.![]()