Do I have a CPU bottleneck on my video card?

kassuba39

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I just purchased and installed an ASUS GTX 650Ti OC Edition video card which features 1GB of GDDR5 memory into my computer. I have noticed a MAJOR increase in performance compared to my old video card, the GT 620, in all of my games. One of the major reasons why I purchased the card was because I wanted to be able to play Battlefield a lot better.

My FPS is all over the place playing on 1080p when playing BF3.. In one spot I can be running butter smooth on recommended settings and two seconds later I could be jumping from 25-50 frames. Just out of curiosity if it was more RAM I needed, I added 8 more GB to my system and it didn't help. It was then I concluded that it was most likely my CPU, the Intel Pentium G860, that was bottlenecking my video card.

Is that a right assumption? Or is there something wrong with my video card? Thanks!
 

kassuba39

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Ah, as I assumed.. That kind of stinks. Glad my video card isn't bad though.