Experiencing CPU "Bottleneck" with FX 6100 - Running 2 GTX 660 Ti's

dalethezombie

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So I recently put a second GTX 660 Ti in my PC, and I am not getting acceptable frame rates. I think this is because this CPU is not powerful enough to run these GPU's to their full potential. Both cards are running at dual x16 on an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Motherboard. What are your thoughts as to how I can fix this?
 
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If you use the exact same hardware except the CPU then the difference should be minimal. The difference is more on the cores quantity as in the core quality. Something else is wrong if the difference is more than 10%

girogalllas

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6100 is not a bad cpu... a pretty decent one if you ask me. you shouldn't experience any major bottlenecking. What frames are we talking about? What I do is the following: Open the game you are playing and task manager before that. If the cpu usage is maxed out then we are probably talking about cpu being inferior and needs replacement if you have the money. if not then something else is wrong
 

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If you use the exact same hardware except the CPU then the difference should be minimal. The difference is more on the cores quantity as in the core quality. Something else is wrong if the difference is more than 10%
 
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