GPU going to 100% is a good thing. It means it’s fully being utilized and takes the burden off the CPU.
I haven’t tried looking at it while playing something. That was happening without anything running.
I realize the GPU should ideally be at 100%, what concerns me is the drop down to 0 and then back up.
So, should the GPU usage be at 100% all the time or just when using applications and games?
I downloaded MSI Afterburner, since I heard it’s a little more reliable than the in-house AMD performance software. At first it was showing erratic numbers, jumping all over the place from 0 to 100 and everything in between. I enabled “unified GPU usage monitoring” and now I seem to be getting a stable 15% usage rate.
Is this normal if I’m not playing a game or something?
I read that 0 to 100 jump is a MSI thing. Now that I think about it, I never actually looked at my gpu usage when gaming. Just temps. Mine is at 97% when gaming.
On another note, ever since getting a 5700 XT, I’ve experienced black screen crashes(gpu crashing) every once in awhile. After a lot of googling and what not, yesterday I learned that using 2 separate pcie cables actually makes a difference for stability as opposed to using 1 cable that splits into 2. This apparently was the reason why I was experiencing the crashes. Made me think AMD didn’t fix their drivers with this card yet. Everything is good now.
It’s my first beefy gpu so I’ve always just used 1 pcie cable and since it splits into 2, I just assumed having 2 pcie cables was for PCs that used 2 gpus.
https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/status/1262385273729581057?s=19
Free game on Steam…
Oh…it’s F2P type.
AMD reverses course:
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Is there some kind of database or resource people can use to find optimal settings in specific games for their specific GPU and CPU?
Not that I’m aware of. Something like that would be a massive undertaking. All the possible CPU/GPU combos would be too much to document. That’s not counting GPU drivers, game patches, etc that could improve performance.
Darn. Would be really cool. I imagine it wouldn’t be THAT hard if it was a large group of people contributing to some sort of compendium over time. But it would be a massive amount of info to archive, yeah.
Currently free on Steam…until May 28th.
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15% off all Newegg orders (up to $50 cashback) from Retailmenot. Never used them before but it seems legit from the reddit post I saw. Up to %20 off if you’ve never used the service before. https://www.retailmenot.com/view/newegg.com?u=NJZKALLNGBEQRHKIFRUGD732F4
I just purchased the last part to my new build yesturday, fml.
A whole new generation learns press X to Jason. Or F, whatever key it is 
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So, my computer is starting to stutter in games it had no issues running before. It seems completley random. Everything is running smooth and then it’ll just HALT for a second or less, before returning to normal. At first I was only seeing it in games, but today it actually happened while I was just sitting on the desktop too.
I tried running MSI Afterburner during Mortal Kombat 11 and it didn’t seem like the GPU or memory was spiking up or down, but “FB Usage” is moving around pretty radically. Not sure what FB stands for.
Pretty fucking frustrating, I’m not sure what I can do to get rid of this.
Do any of you have any advice?
Haven’t had that happen myself, but here’s a thread I found where someone with a 580 was having that problem, lots of suggestions for troubleshooting here: https://community.amd.com/thread/217857
My best guess initially would be a driver issue, but I’m far from an expert.
Think I solved it. In the AMD GPU settings, I had something switched to prioritize “computational power” instead of “graphics”. When I switched it back to graphics my Mortal Kombat 11 benchmark came back with all A’s. Think that might have been the issue.
Thanks for the response PC tho, I’m gonna give that a read anyway in case I ever run into issues in the future. 
EA wanted their Access service on Steam…and Valve wanted Apex on Steam.
this means what for the trash launcher known as Origin?
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Good question…
I’m curious as to what people’s thoughts are regarding a reality where Steam is the only market/launcher. I don’t ever hear any good things regarding EGS, Origin, etc. with everyone wanting anticipated games coming to Steam all the time. But wouldn’t that be a monopoly in the end? Steam already controls like 99% of the PC distribution market, so I guess it doesn’t matter too much.