gtx 660 ti awful performance in bf3 and skyrim help!!!

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hay, upgraded my graphics card from a 7750 hd to a gtx 660 ti. I get it up and running, start bf3 thinking it will be amazing to see that I get dreadful fps (anywhere from 9 yes 9 fps to 35) not the 60 ish I've heard about. I downloaded evga's precision X software to look at the stats i'm getting. from what I'm seeing the card sits at about 324mhz and occasionally peaks to 900mhz power is at 986mv. as I'm a bit of a noob with alot of this ill give you my specs and any additional info I can and hopefully you can see the problem because I've been looking forward to getting this card only to be totally gutted : /

CPU: AMD A6-5400k apu with radeon hd graphics 3.6ghz
GPU: ASUS GTX 660 ti direct CU II 2048mb
Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 AMD chipset
Ram: 8gb
windows 8 64bit

graphics card drivers: geforce 310.70 driver and also tried 320.18 (310.70 seems to give a slight performance boost but its still very bad)

Motherboard : updated

I've got CPU-Z if there is any info of it that is useful I can update on request. please help!

many thanks.
 
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vasquez

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http://imgur.com/f3PkUfD

that's a screeny of my cpu at work during a game, the fps looks ok in that shot but if i get into heated combat or swing my mouse about too much it slows way down.

any other info you need just ask :)
 
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As Sakkura, I would suspect the CPU. Both BF3 and Skyrim are considered CPU intensive, which means you can't just use a APU or low end CPU for it to work optimally. You said that if you get into heated combat, your FPS drops. Since a lot of the AI is transferred to the APU, it may just be too slow for BF3.
 
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pezonator

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Yeah I have to agree, that's a dual core CPU and BF3 Multiplayer is one of the most CPU intensive games to date. If your CPU hits 100% then that's what causes the slow down. It's happened to me with a Sandy Bridge dual core, thanks goodness that was temporary.
 
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vasquez

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Ok cool everyone seems to be in agreement that its the cpu. the next logical question is what do you chaps recommend i get to replace my current one? an i3/i5 maybe? think i would be willing to splurge 150£ ish if its worth getting to complement my card providing the rest of my pc wont drag the performance down.

your help as always is greatly appreciated guys.
 
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You would have to get a new motherboard to use such processors. You current motherboard is socket FM2, so only socket FM2 processors are compatible - that means A-series APUs (A4, A6, A8, A10) or certain Athlon II models. The most high-end product available is the A10-6800K, but the A10-5800K is quite a bit cheaper (less than £100) and only slightly slower. Some of the cheaper quad-cores would probably be able to perform similarly to that when overclocked, but I don't know how comfortable you are with overclocking.
 
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