Getting low frame rates. My GPU is always running at low usage. Help?

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Recently bought a GTX 760. I've noticed that in about half of my games I will not get anywhere near 75fps(75Hz monitor).

Here is what I noticed form my GPU monitoring:
I will stand in a small room or somewhere that doesn't take a lot of GPU utilization and I'll get 75fps at ~60%-70% GPU usage. Then when I go outside or into a spot that would require more usage (like particles, glow, character model load, physics interaction) my fps will drop between 20-40 and the GPU usage will drop to 20-30% usage.

This seems to be the opposite of what should happen. Turning off Vsync doesn't change anything either. If A game doesn't have vsync enabled, shouldn't your card always be running above 90% in order to try and be running at the fastest it can ?(up to the game engine fps limit of course)

I know it's not my CPU or my RAM bottle-necking because I monitor them as well.

Anyone who has experience with this; help would be appreciated.

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Mobo: ASUS M5A88-V EVO (AM3R2)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 760 (Core clock: 1072. Mem clock: 6572)
CPU: AMD FX-4100 Quad core 4.2Ghz
RAM: 8GB DDR3 (frequency 1333)

I have no idea what's wrong
http://i.imgur.com/j9g3eeT.jpg
 
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cookybiscuit
Old MMO+crap CPU (sorry but to be put with a 760 it is)=bad times. Your 760 will do absolutely nothing to help you in games like that, its all CPU, low usage just means the game is poorly optimized, 50% CPU usage is pretty typical, only recent and well written games take advantage of 4 threads to 100%. You have a bottleneck.

Move to an i5 (preferably a K series) and watch FPS skyrocket, expensive but the only way forward due to your scenario.
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Old MMO+crap CPU (sorry but to be put with a 760 it is)=bad times. Your 760 will do absolutely nothing to help you in games like that, its all CPU, low usage just means the game is poorly optimized, 50% CPU usage is pretty typical, only recent and well written games take advantage of 4 threads to 100%. You have a bottleneck.

Move to an i5 (preferably a K series) and watch FPS skyrocket, expensive but the only way forward due to your scenario.
 
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The thing is WoW is just an example. This happens BFBC2/BF3/Payday2/Crysis2&3/Saints Row3&4/Blacklight Retribution/Matro2033/Guild Wars2, ect.

I'm curious how it is a CPU bottleneck. When I bought this processor I wa under the impression that a quad core at 4.2Ghz(overclocked) was really good.
 
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Okay I get that a processor could be bottlenecking me.
However that would only seem to be the same when my CPU load is all four cores running at over 90%. But what I'm seeing here is my CPU constantly at 40%-60% usage while my GPU is still sitting at under 70% usage, meanwhile my FPS is still suffering
 
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As before, not all games can lever all of the CPU, some games cant even use more than 2 cores. I bet your CPU usage in BFBC2 and BF3 is way higher.
 
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