Is any of my computer bottlenecking?

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My pc build.
Possessor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core
RAM: 12GB 3X4GB Vengance ram@1600
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280X XFX 3GB
MOBO: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard
HDD: Western Digital 500GB (Standard HDD)

I was just wondering if there was any bottlenecking going on and also there is a slight squealing noise coming from somewhere but hard to pinpoint it.

Thanks.
 
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Games aren't 'unoptimized' simply because they use 2 cores. AMD CPUs are just really weak at that sort of thing. You wouldn't call a game unoptimized just because it leaves VRAM leftover and still performs badly on a 2GB GT 640, would you? Of course not. Because putting 2GB of VRAM on a $60 video card was a poor decision by the company that made it, not a poor decision by the game developer. It's the same basic thing. AMD pushed their CPUs in an unwise and inefficient direction, and now...
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No, there shouldn't be any bottlenecks, why would you think there is?
Open your case up and see if you can pinpoint where the noise is coming from, if it's a fan, try very carefully stopping the fan by gently pressing on the center of it for a few seconds, and see if the noise stops when the fan stops.
 
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Thanks for the fast reply.

I have stopped all 7 fans 1 on the top,2 on my GPU,2 on the front of my case,1 on the back,1 on my processor and the noise is still there... it could be Coilwhine from my GPU but it sounds like the motherboard maybe im not 100% sure.
It is all ways louder when my pc has first starts up and also on certain games its louder but the longer my pc is on the more quiet it is.

 
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Sounds like it could be coil whine, but you're probably better off looking up people with similar problems and/or starting your own thread about the noise.

Anyway, back to the bottlenecking, why would you think your pc is being bottlenecked?
 
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The reason i was thinking about bottlenecking is because i was playing assassins creed black flag with my fps being fine (Around70fps) but when i went on to a different game called Crossfire wich is a online game with lower graphics and takes less specs i get very low frames around 30-40.
 
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That game can probably only utilize two cores, so you 8320 will be a bottleneck because if weak single threaded performance. In games that can utilize the power of your processor you are fine, but in unoptimized games you will have a bottleneck.
 
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Games aren't 'unoptimized' simply because they use 2 cores. AMD CPUs are just really weak at that sort of thing. You wouldn't call a game unoptimized just because it leaves VRAM leftover and still performs badly on a 2GB GT 640, would you? Of course not. Because putting 2GB of VRAM on a $60 video card was a poor decision by the company that made it, not a poor decision by the game developer. It's the same basic thing. AMD pushed their CPUs in an unwise and inefficient direction, and now they're paying the price.
 
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True, but games nowadays SHOULD be using more than 2 cores, it's just because of older engines and such that they're not, Assasins creed black flag takes better advantage of the extra cores, instead of only utilizing two. In that way it's more optimised, but you're still right about AMD's choice.
 
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