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Installed new CPU and RAM now GPU at 100%?

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MattDK

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System Specs
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard
Cooling Stock cooler
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Video Card(s) Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB Video Card
Storage Samsung 1 TB SSD + WD Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Display(s) LG 27GL850-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 144 Hz Monitor + Asus VG245H 24.0" 1920 x 1080 75 Hz Monitor
Case Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply Corsair RM550x (2018) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Hello everyone,

Today I changed my ryzen 3600 CPU for a 5800x3d with a Thermalright Peerless Assassin cooler
I also changed my 16gb RAM to 32Gb (2x 16Gb 3600Mhz).
At first I did a benchmark which showed my memory underperforming. I found out I had to enable XMP in the bios which I did and now it's running at 3600Mhz.
However now, I see my GPU reaching 90-100% usage in task manager when playing Guild Wars 2 on my first monitor and YouTube on my second monitor.
Is this normal? I don't think I had this before.
Also, is there any way I can see if my new parts are performing as expected?

Thank you for all the help!
 
MattDK said:
Hello everyone,

Today I changed my ryzen 3600 CPU for a 5800x3d with a Thermalright Peerless Assassin cooler
I also changed my 16gb RAM to 32Gb (2x 16Gb 3600Mhz).
At first I did a benchmark which showed my memory underperforming. I found out I had to enable XMP in the bios which I did and now it's running at 3600Mhz.
However now, I see my GPU reaching 90-100% usage in task manager when playing Guild Wars 2 on my first monitor and YouTube on my second monitor.
Is this normal? I don't think I had this before.
Also, is there any way I can see if my new parts are performing as expected?

Thank you for all the help!
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There are multiple difference GPU benchmarks you can use to test GPU performance. The FFXIV benhmark (free), Cinebench R24 GPU bench, Unigine Superposition, ect.
 
It's pretty weird though, when I'm playing Guild Wars 2 and watching a Youtube video on my second monitor, it's stuttering.. This didn't happen before
 
MattDK said:
It's pretty weird though, when I'm playing Guild Wars 2 and watching a Youtube video on my second monitor, it's stuttering.. This didn't happen before
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Try turning off hardware acceleration in your browser, you had spare GPU power before to offload decoding YouTube videos to as your CPU couldn't keep up with your GPU, now with a CPU upgrade you can utilise your GPU 100% in games so should offload YouTube to your CPU see if that alleviates the stuttering
 
Marcus L said:
Try turning off hardware acceleration in your browser, you had spare GPU power before to offload decoding YouTube videos to as your CPU couldn't keep up with your GPU, now with a CPU upgrade you can utilise your GPU 100% in games so should offload YouTube to your CPU see if that alleviates the stuttering
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Tried doing this, but still a lot of stuttering
 
MattDK said:
Tried doing this, but still a lot of stuttering
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I had this problem too at one point. Narrowed it down the the version of firefox I was using and graphic drivers and onboard audio. It went away eventually after reinstalling all of them. I just switched to a different web Brower at the time until I figured it out (about 2 years ago).
 
I did some stuff this weekend (don't ask me for specifics, I tried so many things I already forgot lol!) and it stopped stuttering!
 
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