CPU Help and OCing

[socomdan]

Hello all,

I recently bought a GTX 560 TI and I must say that I am kind of dissapointed by the performance. I thought it would do a bit better at least running games at decent FPS at max settings. For example Bullet storm drops from 50 to like 10-12 in heavy combat zones at 720p max settings resolution. So reading up a bit a found out that it could be my CPU bottlenecking my performance.

Here are my PC specs.

AMD Anthlon II x4 2.60 GHZ
6 gb ram
GTX 560 TI EVGA Supeclocked
64bit Windows 7.

I bought this computer from HP (I know huge mistake) and my mobo is
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01925486&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=4066499&key=null&site=null

Also my PSU is 600watts.

I know that usually with computers bought from Dell, HP, Etc its hard to bypass the bios settings required to OC. However if you look at that page I linked there is a option to clear PASSSWORD bios. I was wondering if this would give full access to bios and bypass the dumb security. Also how much would I need to OC to see a good improvement?
Am I being to greedy in asking for more from this card I bought for $279? I kinda expected more.

TYVM in advanced.

 

[jsc]

No. Clearing the BIOS just takes the system back to factory default values. It will not enable any extra or hidden features.

I suspect that the video card is being limited by the CPU performance.

 

[chriscornell]

It is definately not your graphics card holding you back:

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/30937-bulletstorm-benchmark-performance-comparison/

scroll down the page to see performance charts

 

[simon12]

At your low resolution the performance is more determined by the CPU than the GPU so its where the bottleneck is. I am surprised performance isn't better though.

 

[socomdan]

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