How much does CPU affect FPS?

HikaruHaruQ

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At the moment my build is as stands:

CPU - AMD FX6300 3.5GHZ

GPU - MSI Nvidia GTX 970 4G

Mobo - Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

RAM - HyperX Savage 16GB

HDD and SSD - WD Blue 1TB and 120GB Kingston SSD

PSU - EVGA 500W 80+

Personally, when I play games like League of Legends, Aion, CSGO etc I'd expect to get higher frames to be quite honest, on League I get around 150 FPS average with nothing on, no watching streams etc. When live streaming league, I get around 80-90 average FPS.

When I play something like Aion, I get 60 FPS (which is high, I'm not complaining about this) but when I do live streaming it drops to around average 40-45 FPS.

And seeing that I have a GTX 970, I'd expect my frames to be a lot higher. What's the problem in my system here? The only thing I can think of is my CPU.