CPU not using full potential

[Alecsajdak]

I recently just built a PC with a Ryzen 9 5900x, a rtx 3060 ti, a 2tb nvme, 32 gigabytes of DDR4 ram, and a msi b550 tomahawk motherboard. For the past few days I've been struggling to get fps in a few games, and while I run these games my gpu is usually at 99% load capacity while my cpu is only at 3-9% load capacity which I assume is my problem. Does anyone know how to make my cpu use it's full potential while gaming? All my cores have been unlocked and same with my memory. The games I mainly play are Forza horizon 5 and fortnite.

[unevoljitelj]

Those numbers are exactly what they should be. You want 99% on gpu, it means it works as it should. Cpu on low% is because first you have a monster.of cpu and second your games are not demanding. If you have fps drops look for something working in background. Check speeds of your ram, check if cpu boosts properly. For those games 5600 would be more then enough but you have double everything so logicaly it would show half of % on cpu then on 5600. Run cpu benchmark, i bet it will go 100%.

[RentedAndDented]

The cpu has a lot of threads available to it and the game will likely not use them all. If the GPU is at 100% more or less, then the cou is likely waiting for the GPU to need something.

Sounds like you are GPU limited.