Upgrading system, where's the bottleneck?

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subwayjared

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Im looking to boost my gaming performance and im not sure where my bottleneck is.I have a 6 core athlon 1090T , 8 gig of ram, Asus M4A89GTD pro usb3, Radeon HD 7850 (1 GB) , 800 watt power supply.
I browse the net & play games on it. MMO's / shooters ect.
I wasnt sure if just buying another HD 7850 & running in Crossfire mode would be sufficient or if the mobo & cpu would limit that.

any help appreciated.
thx
 
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ddbtkd456

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Whats the exact brand of your power supply?
 
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ddbtkd456

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I would say your graphics card is the one that is bottle-necking your system, since you have a 3.4 GHz processor and a 6-core at that i doubt its that, its defiantly not your RAM either. My suggestion:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $179.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-25 06:51 EDT-0400)

Cross-firing x2 7850's really isn't worth the time and effort. I would say get this card and you'll be able to max out just about any game you could ever play, not to mention if you upgraded your PSU, and cross-fired another one you would have unbelievably good graphics.
 
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