e4500 cpu seems to bottleneck my 9500gt

yvgamer94

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So i bought a oem dc7800 sff desktop for a whopping 40$ and i decide to throw my old lovely 9500gt (really love it!) in. It had a core 2 duo 2.2gh e4500 in it and for some reason, i am getting bottle necks :(. For example COD WAW lowest settings reaching 35-40 fps and with max resolution and mac settings still 35-40 fps ( 1280 x 1024 old monitor).

Also happens for other games such as heros of newerth, battlefield 3 (untill i really up the graphics fps drops) and dirt 2/3. Could it be just the oem mobo? It has a x16 pci whcih should be plenty of bandwidth. I also have 4gb of ram.
 

yvgamer94

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The thing is it runs in my other pc very well (i5 2500k). At 1080p, it can run most of these games very well at low-lowmid settings (45-60fps). If only i had a card that fitted into this older pc (needs low profile slot), i could determine whats actually wrong.