Home built amd system is under performing, is there a problem with it speccy file included

preachy

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Nov 7, 2013
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Hi
I have this system currently which is performing pretty shoddily at bf4, i was going to look at upgrading some parts of it, but, before i do that wanted to make sure that everything was performing where it would be expected to. I have read a post here that refers to using speccy and wondered if someone wouldn't mind taking a look and giving me some feedback on it.

if everything is as it should be, some advice on upgrades would be appreciated, im sure the ram and cpu are likely candidates but my budget wont be stretching to a new gfx card.

Added to that i have always had an AMD system so would prefer to stay with that. Im not looking for ultra on everything at this stage, just smooth game play with good gfx against cost on that pesky bellcurve..

I'll add a speccy file, but not sure if you want a .text / .speccy / .xml file.

windows 7 home premium 64bit
Gigabyte 990XA-UD3
amd 4170fx 4.2 bulldozer
corsair h20 watercooled block for cpu
16gb corsair vengance red ddr3 1333 10700
Gigabyte radeon HD 7970 windforce (driver 13.2 beta)
Silverstone Olympia 850 psu
(C) 1x120gb ocz vertex3
1 60gb ocz vertex2
1 320gb seagate sata barracuda
1 500gb seagate sata barracuda


thanks in advance

link to my speccy file http://
 

ConfigZero

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I think your problem may be that your CPU is bottlenecking the system. people run FX-8350's with 7970's typically. somebody correct me if im wrong, but I think you may need a CPU upgrade. The bulldozer architecture is not a very effective architecture, and upgrading to piledriver is a good idea. Battlefield 4 in particular will also effectivly utilize 6-8 threads as well as four threads.