Hi im not the greatest at computers but certainly not the worst and cant figure out why my fps is so low on certain games with my computer rig, i recently bought a msi gtx 970 graphics card and i am getting around the same fps as i was on my msi gtx 660 and i was just wondering if this was a cpu bottleneck. my CPU is a amd fx-8350 black edition stock 4.0ghz but i did overclock to 4.6ghz and was no increase in performance, can anyone help me out as I cannot record csgo with such low fps as it drops from 120 non-recording to 40-70 while recording, surely this is not right as this is what I got from my old and much worse gfx card too
AMD FX-8350 and msi 970 GPU and im getting a CPU bottleneck?
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LookItsRain
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You have a small bottleneck in games that are ipc bound, but nothing that should cause your issues.
Reinstall your graphics drivers, update your programs, check for malicious software
Reinstall your graphics drivers, update your programs, check for malicious software
Th3-Hunter333
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I had an almost IDENTICAL build to yours a while back.
ASUS crosshair v formula-z with the fx 8350 paired with my current msi gtx 970 golden edition.
I had very very similar issues in many games (i dont like csgo so i cant compare there)
My issue was i would lose alot of framerate in battlefield 4 while recording (shadowplay fixed this issue a bit but framerate was still a little bad)
The minute i switched off to my current i7-5820k (i kept my current gtx 970, exact same clock speed as well), my issue completely vanished (also my framerate close to doubled in 90% of games)
ASUS crosshair v formula-z with the fx 8350 paired with my current msi gtx 970 golden edition.
I had very very similar issues in many games (i dont like csgo so i cant compare there)
My issue was i would lose alot of framerate in battlefield 4 while recording (shadowplay fixed this issue a bit but framerate was still a little bad)
The minute i switched off to my current i7-5820k (i kept my current gtx 970, exact same clock speed as well), my issue completely vanished (also my framerate close to doubled in 90% of games)
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You say the Windows version you have is from a cloned drive.
There for you would assume that whatever graphics card you had in the system at that time along with the old graphics card.
Since it was a straight clone would of been the driver you installed with your GTX 660 card in the system.
If you think about it, what I have said is likely true.
Go to geeks3d .com and download this, and run it.
http://www.geeks3d.com/20080616/guru3d-driversweeper/
Restart your system to complete the clean out.
Then hit the Nvidia website for the latest driver suite for your 970 card.
That should sort your problem out.
There for you would assume that whatever graphics card you had in the system at that time along with the old graphics card.
Since it was a straight clone would of been the driver you installed with your GTX 660 card in the system.
If you think about it, what I have said is likely true.
Go to geeks3d .com and download this, and run it.
http://www.geeks3d.com/20080616/guru3d-driversweeper/
Restart your system to complete the clean out.
Then hit the Nvidia website for the latest driver suite for your 970 card.
That should sort your problem out.
thanks for all the replies guy much appreciated, it may well could be that i cloned my ssd but i got the card something like 2 months later after the clone, im starting to think is my gpu holding back my gpu's performace so i may well upgrade to an I7 
but first im going to backup any of my important files and do a fresh install and see what happens
but first im going to backup any of my important files and do a fresh install and see what happens Th3-Hunter333
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MrRage :
thanks for all the replies guy much appreciated, it may well could be that i cloned my ssd but i got the card something like 2 months later after the clone, im starting to think is my gpu holding back my gpu's performace so i may well upgrade to an I7 but first im going to backup any of my important files and do a fresh install and see what happens
but first im going to backup any of my important files and do a fresh install and see what happens
Depending on what processor you choose to pick, expect around 15 to 25 frames increase (at least, For me it was more than this) among every game if you switch
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