Replaced my 720p monitor with 1080p, loss of framerates... what should I upgrade?

Nasric

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I understand the reasoning for why I lost frames, but my question is which part of my build needs to be upgraded. Here is the link to what I built the other day - bearing in mind that I reused some parts from my old build, namely the power supply, graphics card and optical drive. I just recently bought a 22-inch monitor (listed in the link) to replace my 1366x768 one, and noticed that my frames in Battlefield 4 - where I was running at 55-60 frames on my old monitor - is now 30 to 45 on 1080p. Watch Dogs had similar performance and was reduced by ten or fifteen frames as well.

Is my graphics card too weak to handle it? I reused it from my old build, but I was going to upgrade to the GTX 970 once they came in stock.