Question about troubleshooting FPS

ImpGuard

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I have some frame drops while playing BF3 as well as on some other games when playing at max settings. I'm wondering what the general process is in debugging.

I have just upgraded my PC with a GTX 670, and it has been running a E7400 at 3.3 Ghz with 4 GB of RAM.

When playing some newer games at max settings, I notice that I run at around 30-50 fps quite steadily at very high settings. However, I occasionally dip to 20 or so fps. I'm unsure whether I should attribute this to network latency or my computer. If it's my computer, I'm not sure how to determine if it's my processor that's just old or if I don't have enough memory. If it's my network I'm not sure what I should be looking for when I run network tests.

What do you guys do when figuring out how to make/fix a system so it can run a game at a smooth 30+ framerate?
 
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your cpu is severly bottlnecking your whole system. your core 2 duo cpu is too old for the 670. suggest you change the processor, which also means changing the mobo.memory 4 gb isnt enough. 8 gb is the perfect brim line

caj

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your cpu is severly bottlnecking your whole system. your core 2 duo cpu is too old for the 670. suggest you change the processor, which also means changing the mobo.memory 4 gb isnt enough. 8 gb is the perfect brim line
 
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ImpGuard

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Yea, this computer was put together about 3+ years ago, it was pretty decent back then!

So when you say severely, how severe is it? It seems to chug along alright on everything, just some stutters (like only once every min. or so) on some games on high settings. Is this purely because of the CPU?