Not sure if my CPU is bottle necking

Jaytino

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So, I have gotten a new graphics card recently and every time I play games, it's extremely laggy and very often the game just crashes. I'm curious on what my problem is as I am fairly new to computers.

My parts are:

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965
Motherboard: ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX

Before I had the GTX 960, I had the GTX 750Ti and it worked perfectly fine for a year then towards the time I was getting my new GPU, everything seemed to be going downhill on the performance side and I hoped the 960 would fix my problem, but it didn't. Temperatures are fine under load from what I've been seeing so I have no clue at this point. Any help is appreciated.
 

Jaytino

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Feb 25, 2016
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I have not tried. Was thinking about doing it but I'm not really sure on how to do it correctly.