Bottleneck check for new R9 270 on my old system

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i just bought a videocard - Asus Radeon R9 270 instead of my old 4850 (it`s broke) so i had to.

I have following CPU:
TripleCore AMD Athlon II X3 440, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)

Memory
6144 GB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)

I can play Battlefield 4 on ultra/high HD resolution on my system. but i expected ALL ULTRA))

Is my CPU bottlenecking cause when i turn on MSI afterburner in game it shows about 40 % GPU load.
and 99% of Processor load.

is it because my CPU is not allowing new R9 270 to open up its potential at full. or other reason.

What can be done here?

thanks

 
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Not necessary - just identify the CPU-bound settings in each game and turn those down to Medium or Low if you can. (I got Crysis 3 to run at mostly VeryHigh settings with my old i3 by just tweaking draw-distances).

In BF4, turn down Lighting, Effects, Mesh, and Terrain Quality - and possibly Terrain Decoration as well. Post-processing, Ambient Occlusion, Antialiasing, and Textures are handled almost-solely by the graphics card. Do some testing with Fraps or another framerate-counter on and check how much each setting affects your CPU usage and overall framerate.

It's true...
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I know it is kinna old and planning to upgrade CPU to Phenom II X4 at least as my motherboard is AM3 socket. as soon as i sell the old athlon x2. i bought new card because the old one died, so had no choice. even with this cpu gaming improved considerably.
 
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thats not exactly true... he will probably get the same FPS on low settings as he will on ultra settings due to the CPU... his FPS will probably be around 15-30 no matter the graphic settings.
 
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Not necessary - just identify the CPU-bound settings in each game and turn those down to Medium or Low if you can. (I got Crysis 3 to run at mostly VeryHigh settings with my old i3 by just tweaking draw-distances).

In BF4, turn down Lighting, Effects, Mesh, and Terrain Quality - and possibly Terrain Decoration as well. Post-processing, Ambient Occlusion, Antialiasing, and Textures are handled almost-solely by the graphics card. Do some testing with Fraps or another framerate-counter on and check how much each setting affects your CPU usage and overall framerate.

It's true, that CPU is just not built for today's most demanding games, so consider a platform (mobo, CPU, RAM) upgrade next time.
 
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thanks, will do.
 
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it turned out that my processor can be unlocked to 4 core Phenom, so I have unocked my triple core Athlon X3 440 to quad core Phenom X4 B40. so now i get about 60+ fps in Battlefield 3 on ultra-high and 30-60 fps in BF4 which is much better result comparing to Athlon X3. CPU looks stable so far.
 
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Great news! Now you don't have to worry about upgrading to an old Phenom. And the more you can overclock that thing, the better.
 
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There is a problem with this you know, it turns out that the 4th core is locked for a reason, AMD usually takes processors that have the 4th core damaged, locks out the 4th core and resells it as a 3 core processor.

However if you get lucky, sometimes AMD locks out a healthy CPU because of high demand and that can indeed be repurposed!
 
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Yep i know about that, i had doubts about this unlocking issue, cause not very familiar with all these unlocking, overcloking. But looks like it worked for me - 4th core is enabled and L3 chache is showing as well as supposed. - so far i tried BF3 and 4, War thunder, also watched a movie - and it runs without a glitch. hope will be the same in future and save me some money for now.
so i guess now my r9 likes this cpu much better
 
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