How much is my CPU bottlenecking my R9 270 OC

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leakylawson

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I have recently bought a R9 270 OC and put it into my current system, which in time I am going to completely upgrade.

My question is how much of a bottle neck am I getting on this card in my current setup, as it doesn't seem to be performing great.

My specs:
MSI R9 270 OC
E6300 pentium dual core
4gb DDR2 ram
Old MSI motherboard

Planed upgrade in time:
Fx 6300
8gb DDR3 ram
New mobo
New PSU
New hdd

Sorry if I come across as a noob, because I am one.
 
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Dark Lord of Tech
Here go with this combo , the board has a 8+2 power design = great fit for the FX6300.

Seasonic made power supply at a steal of a price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($47.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $354.94
(Prices...
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PsychSC2

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I can't say the percentage of the bottleneck but I can say... it bottlenecks your videocard so hard.

I suggest you to get the FX6300 processor to have the card reach its potential as your dualcore cpu is holding it back.

And you definitely need to change everything, except your GPU.
 
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Dark Lord of Tech

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Here go with this combo , the board has a 8+2 power design = great fit for the FX6300.

Seasonic made power supply at a steal of a price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($47.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $354.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-09 20:32 EDT-0400)
 
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Yoplait95

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Plus an 8gb model should be easier to find therefore be cheaper I think..
 
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leakylawson

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Thank you the replies all of you didn't expect it to be so fast, i am on very tight budget as I am a student.

I was thinking because of this, do i really need to change my mobo? it is an Asus P5KC seen below: http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P5KC/

I was thinking i could ugrade my ram to ddr3 8gb as it supports it, and put in an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 with 6mb cache and 3.33Ghz?

Or possibly a Q9400 quad core, or a Q6600?

Or any other LGA775 socket cpus you recommend?

How would this work with my current R9 270?

Thanks again for the replies all of you.
 
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