Am i bottlenecking my GPU?

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I have an nvidia GTX 760.A hulking beast of a video card, that should run crysis 3 with max settings at 60 fps(according to multiple benchmarks).But i see the performance take dips to 30-20 fps.
My processor is an intel core i3-560.
I was thinking abut getting a i7-860 , the best i can get for my motherboard MSI H55M-E23.The stores in my country aren't selling it, but second hand ones go for 110 bucks.Are there any alternatives?
 
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You are bottlenecking your GPU. Those old i7's wont be able to contain that mammoth either. You're better off going with a Core i5 Ivy Bridge or maybe even a Haswell if possible. Either way, you're gonna have to upgrade that motherboard too.
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You are bottlenecking your GPU. Those old i7's wont be able to contain that mammoth either. You're better off going with a Core i5 Ivy Bridge or maybe even a Haswell if possible. Either way, you're gonna have to upgrade that motherboard too.
 
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Your GPU can't bottleneck your CPU, and, one can hardly manage 60+ FPS on Max settings on Crysis 3 even with 780, let alone 760.
 
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The question was if my old ass CPU is bottlenecking my gtx 760.
And the crysis benchmark was on High settings, not max.Oppsie.
 
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yes, the 1st gen dual core i-core processor is holding your card back from performing at its max in intense parts of the game. The rig in my sig can't even play Crysis 3 at its highest settings w/o uncomfortably low frame rates. So don't expect too much from your GTX 760.

But (with the i7-870/875) if you disable AA and lower motion blur, you should be able to average around 40 fps @ Very High, which is fine in single player.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2013/06/25/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-2gb-review/5
The above benchmarks were with an i5-3570K. The i7-875K I used to have was almost as good a gaming CPU as my i5-2500K is.
 
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Yes your CPU is bottlenecking the GPU, to confirm, while you're in a very intensive part of the game, check your CPU and GPU usage, if CPU usage is 100% and GPU is not 100%, it means a bottlneck.

You won't get 60+ FPS even with no AA:

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^the above is for everything maxed out but not AA and AF.
 
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Yep.Seems resonable.Also, yes, the benchmarks were not on max settings(oppsies).
So, anything i can to stop the bottleneck?
The max processors my mainboard can get are also kinda old.
Any reccomandations, prefferably 250-350$?
 
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A gen 1 i7 can still hold it's own very well. They trade blows with FX 8350's. They can handle a GTX 760. The GTX 760 is a midrange card, and far from being a mammoth.
 
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Well, it gets the job done.I don't use dual monitors or ridiculous resolutions , so a titan is just overkill.

 
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