Pretty sure my i5 3470 is bottlenecking my XFX R9 280x

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mattayboi

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So ever since I received the 280x I have been having some serious performance issues, most noticeably is very demanding games like Battlefield 4, Crysis 3 and FarCry 3. I have been noticing all of the symptoms of a bottleneck, like the FPS staying the same, or barely changing, after changing the graphics settings, sometimes drastically. Also whilst playing BF4 and activating perfoverlay.drawgraph 1 I see that the CPU line is jumping all over the place. Now I know what you are going to say, " The I5 is a very powerful processor and should not bottleneck..." or even say that I should look to see if I have updated the drivers. I have literally done everything people have suggested to me and nothing has worked, so I have come to this accusation. Of course I would love to be proven wrong, does anyone have a similar setup that is working well? Any solutions? Please I am lost.
 
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mattayboi

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GPU: XFX R9 280x 3gb

CPU: i5 3470

Mobo: Asrock Z77 Pro4-M

Ram: 8gb (2 x 4gb) Ripjaw Gskill (1600)

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB

PSU: Thermaltake Smart 550 Watt 80 Plus Bronze

 
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mattayboi

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Ok, maybe over exaggerated when I wrote 'serious', but I am getting significantly less FPS in practically all games compared to MULTIPLE online benchmarks, the main ones being Battlefield 4, Crysis 3, FarCry 3 and Batman Archam City. In all the games I am getting 10-40 frames below the average on the benchmarks with the same settings.
 
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mattayboi

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All 1080p

Battlefield 4 Ultra
Fps 60--80 on smaller maps like operation locker
Fps 40-50 on larger maps like paracel storm

Crysis 3 Setting- high
Texture high
AA 1x smaa
fps 40-50

Batman Arkham City
Detail settings very high
AA 8x MSAA
Directx 11 feature off

fps 60

Farcry 3 Ultra
no AA
SSAO
45- 50 fps
 
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mattayboi

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Keep in mind that these results only change a little bit when changing the settings, even drastically.
 
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teh camper

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looks normal to me. i have a sapphire 280x and the fps for crysis 3 is about that much.

 
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