Am I causing any bottlenecks? And what would be the best thing to upgrade on my rig?

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I'm wondering if any of my hardware is causing bottlenecks in performance in games, especially games like Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. If I want to improve my FPS and performance, what should I upgrade? Here are my specs.
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.40 GHz

8 GB of DDR3 RAM

Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

Graphic's Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (MSI)

SSD: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB with around 400 mb/s read and write

HDD: Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-65L5B1 (SATA II) 1 TB with around 50 mb/s read and write (only used for long term storage)

Sound Card:
ASUS Xonar D1 5.1 Surround

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
 
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Ok it's lucky that your motherboard is AM3+. Your problems are your CPU is getting outdated now, your graphics card is below ok, but still usable. So;

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($117.97 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $277.96

There's your upgrades, will breath new life in your PC, then $20 left order pizza. Or if your patient, sell your gpu and cpu, and with that extra money get a 7950 instead. But either way, the 6300 + 7870, on Max Settings in BF4 will see you about 45 fps average, so you can turn off AA and shadows down a little and it will be 50-60 no problem.
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Ok it's lucky that your motherboard is AM3+. Your problems are your CPU is getting outdated now, your graphics card is below ok, but still usable. So;

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($117.97 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $277.96

There's your upgrades, will breath new life in your PC, then $20 left order pizza. Or if your patient, sell your gpu and cpu, and with that extra money get a 7950 instead. But either way, the 6300 + 7870, on Max Settings in BF4 will see you about 45 fps average, so you can turn off AA and shadows down a little and it will be 50-60 no problem.
 
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That's great! Thanks so much for helping me. I'll look into all of them. But would this truly be the best bang for the buck?
 
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Sure, you can check youtube just search something like;

amd 6300 + 7870 BF4

and see people playing with what I recommended then go from there.
 
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Thank you! And do you think it would be worth it to get a new motherboard and switch to an intel processor? I know intel processors are pricey, but would it be at all worth it to do that instead of getting a really good AMD processor for my current motherboard?
 
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You can, but only if you really want all that power.
 
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