GTX 690 Performance Question

Xilo

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Hi, I'd like to ask if my I7-3820 (3.6 GHz) is a bottleneck for my GTX 690 from ASUS, as I'm occasionally seeing less than expected performance. For example:

It was me and my friend playing TF2 when he decided to benchmark his system. He maxed his settings on his i7- 4770k (non OC) and GTX 780 (normal edition) and got a total of around 800fps average without scripts and with the FPS limit off. Me? I got 450 on average. Yes this is really nitpicky, but this translates to higher intensity games like Assasin's Creed, Garry's Mod (Certain maps), and Battlefield.

Could it be a bottleneck? SLI optimization? Airflow (Idle is at 30 and 33 for the GPUs)?

I'd just like for a way to get better performance from my rig is all.
 

Xilo

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TF2 is supported by NVIDIA Experience, so I'm guessing there was already a driver that optimized it for SLI performance. As for the processor, after some researching I found little difference between the 4700k and 3820, so there's something out of the way.