What is the bottle neck in my system ?

t1mone · Jun 8, 2013

Hey i bought an Nvidia GTX 670 less than a month ago and I know the card is not achieving it s full potential. So i want to know what components would need replacing to remove the "bottleneck" from my system. (getting new components is not an issue).

My components:
CPU: AMD Bulldozer FX-4170
Motherboard: MSI: 760GM-P23 (FX)
GPU: Nvidia (MSI) GTX 670
HDD: 1tb western digital
RAM: 8Gb (brand unkown)

Gamoholic · Jun 8, 2013

Your biggest bottleneck in games would probably be your AMD CPU. Like you, I wanted to believe AMD had done a good job with Bulldozer, but the truth is that there is no beating Intel when it comes to raw CPU power (I have a 6200). Swapping out your motherboard is probably not an option, and you already have the highest clocked quad core which is the best for gaming. If you have a good CPU cooler (I.E. not the one that came with it) then you might try overclocking. The other thing you could do is upgrade to Piledriver, but I don't think you will see significant gains from that.

I probably should have started with this, but what tells you for sure that your 670 is not achieving it's full potential?

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