Hey guy,
Im trying to find a program to see CPU utilization in game and out of game. People keep saying MSI afterburner... but i dont have an MSI board, or GPU will it still work or do you need to have MSI in your rig?
Anyone care to throw in your two cents?
Sure you can use MSI After Burner without any MSI products. Utilities like that and things like ASUS's ROG Real Bench or other software don't require any of their respective products to work.
I would also like to recommend Hardware Monitor, CPUZ and GPUZ
cool thanks man ill try them out
MSI afterburner works regardless of board it doesn't matter.
If I find reference to it in my notes there was a command line app I used to use in windows. If I remember it I will send you a link.
been trying them out... I can tell you from first hand experience they don't all like to be used at once. Makes computer very angry.
If you need to log to a spreadsheet just use windows perfmon and create a collection set.
For a long time I was using the ASUS ROG software, along with either EVGA Precision software/GPUZ. I had so many windows up trying to keep track of how my system was being utilized. I ended up using Hardware Monitor. It shows every aspect of your system in one window and how much of it is being used & what the max is. I've never looked back since!
HW Monitor, though it doesn't have in game overlay from what I know.
Slight thread drift, this is a useful guide if you are trying to tie CPU & GPU usage and FPS together:
http://www.pcgamer.com/will-your-cpu-bottleneck-your-graphics-card/
Interesting read. I had an old i7 920 that I currently upgraded to a 990x after I got a new video card (amd 390). The 990x gave me about a 20fps bump in most games I play. But I noticed in dark age of Camelot it still keeps one core at about 97% all the time. Might try a sky lake build im sure my wife will be swayed by the data lol
I use after burner because I like the line graph. You can customize what you want it to show and easily look back and see a visual representation of gpu, cpu, ram, vram, temps, etc. I have my graph set to show me 30 minutes at a time.
HWiNFO is pretty light and can log everything onto a simple txt file.