Overclocking does nothing?

HRubss

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I'm fairly new to the PC gaming community. Last year I purchased a CyberPower PC (Link to website http://) Yes I know, it's better to build and not buy but I didn't have any experiences with computers and what not so I thought it would be a good idea to buy a small rig and learn from there. So far I have installed a GeForce GTX 970 (Link: http://), a thermaltake TR2 600W PSU, and I upgraded my CPU to an AMD FX6300 since I felt like my old FX4300 was bottlenecking my GPU. I know my GPU already comes OC. I use Valley Benchmark (GT 720 to GTX 970 made a huge difference) to see how many FPS I can get out of my RIG. Whenever I try to increase my core clock and Memory clock by 125/100Mhz more, retrospectively, it runs the program fine but I see no difference in the performance. Right now my GPU clock is at 1442MHz (according to GPU-z). Could the motherboard be bottlenecking my system or am I just OC'ing incorrectly? Thanks for the input.
 
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You have a cpu bottleneck. Overclocking your 970 doesn't make any difference because your cpu is not strong enough to even get 100% out of it at stock speeds. The FX6300 is not a very strong gaming cpu. Not really any better than the 4300 in most cases.

CTurbo

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You have a cpu bottleneck. Overclocking your 970 doesn't make any difference because your cpu is not strong enough to even get 100% out of it at stock speeds. The FX6300 is not a very strong gaming cpu. Not really any better than the 4300 in most cases.
 
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HRubss

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I had a feeling that was going to be my case, that or my MOBO being weak as well. I wanted to make a much better upgrade such as I7-6700K but I would have to switch my MOBO for that and at that point, it would be just better to start a whole new set up with new hardware/case in general. BTW, can you guys simplify the reasoning why you automatically said it was my CPU?