Bottleneck problem AMD phenom 945, AMD R9-280x

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Dear people!

I know that my CPU is probably bottlenecking becouse its old and crappy.
Anyway i am upgrading to an i5 - 3570k, But for now im a bit confused.

Is a bottleneck a full gpu lockdown? Or is ur gpu able to still reach 95% usage?
With that said i mean my Cpu is near 100% usage and my Gpu is near the 70% often tough it still climbs up to the mid 90% while playing bf4

Cpu runs stock (Not overclocking becouse im upgading anyway)

I'm playing BF4 maxed out and the pfs is pretty low (45-60FPS @ 1080P)

Kind regards,

PS. Im not going haswell becouse i have a z77 Mpower laying around :)
 
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Not realy. Im confused by the fact that my cpu bottlenecks my gpu but still my gpu reaches 100% load often.

i know that the 3570k is alot faster and thats not the issue the issue is why my gpu reaches 100%
while my cpu is pulling him back and thats what i mentioned with lockdown
 
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What is your current motherboard? An upgrade to an FX 8320 would be a more economical solution if your board has the necessary support for it. 45-60fps isn't low for maxed out either. FYI, the human eye cannot see much past 60fps really anyway. I would suspect your minimum framerate is suffering due to your CPU though when certain events in the game take place. This would hold especially true if you are in a 32 or 64 man campaign.

Just saw your PS note. 3570k is a good choice for that board. Keep in mind you might need a new copy of windows as well.
 
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Is a bottleneck a full gpu lockdown? Or is ur gpu able to still reach 95% usage?
With that said i mean my Cpu is near 100% usage and my Gpu is near the 70% often tough it still climbs up to the mid 90% while playing bf4

 
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Keep in mind, your cpu is also running other programs in the background as well like antivirus and such. Your cpu is still pretty decent, considering its age, but really a CPU upgrade I think is warranted in this case. BF4 has shown to be fairly CPU intensive.
 
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