Below Average FPS. What to upgrade?

iLik3c0oki3s

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Hi guys, I'm new to all of this, in fact, I recently just had my very first PC build. However, I was wondering why while playing CS:GO I seem to relatively have low fps compared to the friends that I play with that play on the same exact settings as me. Interestingly, their specs on their hardware should technically be lower tier than mine. Of course I play on max settings but I seem to only have about 180-200 fps while my friends have 250-350 fps with "lower tier" hardware. Is this normal for a nvidia 760? I suspect it has something to do with my CPU but I'm not quite sure. And if this is the max I can get out of my system, what's the best piece to upgrade? Also could my monitor have anything to do with the fps?

My current specs:
CPU: Amd fx 8350
GPU: Nvidia gtx 760
RAM : 8 gbs (corsair)
Mobo: Asrock 970 Extreme 4
 

xTempered

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Resolution. Graphics settings. & OC. Those are the first 3 things I think about before even comparing performance between two builds. Not sure if this helps you or not but thats what I go off of.
 

VenBaja

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As far as the friends with Intel builds...Intel has far superior per-core performance, which is the major factor for compute performance is multiplayer games.

Not sure why your other friend's similarly clocked F-6350 is getting more FPS though. What motherboard are you running your 8350 on? Perhaps there's some thermal issues going on.