My Processor Is Bad?

[iFaymous]

Whenever I play a game with an open map area (Battlefield 3, Borderlands 2, even Minecraft) it seems as if my CPU is struggling to play in the open fields. Here are my specs.

- AMD Phenom II x6 1055T (Stock Speeds) (Mobo does not support overclocking)
- MSI Twin Frozr Radeon 7850 2GB (Stock Speeds)
- 500W Cooler Master Extreme PSU
- 1.5TB HDD
- 6GB Ram DDR3

Im on a 1366*768 resolution. Here is the FPS I get in the open map areas.

Battlefield 3 Caspian Border (Ultra) - 40 (75% Gpu Usage)
Battlefield 3 Caspian Border (Low) - 70 (50% Gpu Usage)
Borderlands Open Map Area (Max Settings) - 45
Borderlands Open Map Area (Lowest Settings) - 55
Minecraft After Full Map Render (Max Settings) - 90 (This makes a difference for me because I do Youtube videos and recording drops it down to about 50.)

Is it my CPU? Maybe my PSU? What do you guys think

 

[chase3567]

Whenever I play a game with an open map area (Battlefield 3, Borderlands 2, even Minecraft) it seems as if my CPU is struggling to play in the open fields. Here are my specs.

- AMD Phenom II x6 1055T (Stock Speeds) (Mobo does not support overclocking)
- MSI Twin Frozr Radeon 7850 2GB (Stock Speeds)
- 500W Cooler Master Extreme PSU
- 1.5TB HDD
- 6GB Ram DDR3

Im on a 1366*768 resolution. Here is the FPS I get in the open map areas.

Battlefield 3 Caspian Border (Ultra) - 40 (75% Gpu Usage)
Battlefield 3 Caspian Border (Low) - 70 (50% Gpu Usage)
Borderlands Open Map Area (Max Settings) - 45
Borderlands Open Map Area (Lowest Settings) - 55
Minecraft After Full Map Render (Max Settings) - 90 (This makes a difference for me because I do Youtube videos and recording drops it down to about 50.)

Is it my CPU? Maybe my PSU? What do you guys think

You have a cpu bottleneck and since you can't overclock your processor it will continue to exist. Gpu usage in BF3 should be in the 90+ range.

 

[iFaymous]

You have a cpu bottleneck and since you can't overclock your processor it will continue to exist. Gpu usage in BF3 should be in the 90+ range.

Another question. If I were to upgrade to a i5-3570k, would I need a new PSU?

 

[chase3567]

It should be fine as your card needs atleast 400 watt power supply.

 

[vrumor]

Crappermaster PSUs, are just that, crap. I doubt hes experiencing a CPU bottleneck on a 1055t. The 7850 isnt a high end card, its a mid range card in the 7000 series. And why do you have 6 gb of RAM on a system that supports dual channel, not triple channel RAM. At that resolution you shouldnt have any slowdown whatsoever. 6gb of RAM doesnt make sense on an AMD platform, it just doesnt.

 

[stickg1]

Another question. If I were to upgrade to a i5-3570k, would I need a new PSU?

The i5 uses less power than the Phenom II so you would be fine.

 

[iFaymous]

Crappermaster PSUs, are just that, crap. I doubt hes experiencing a CPU bottleneck on a 1055t. The 7850 isnt a high end card, its a mid range card in the 7000 series. And why do you have 6 gb of RAM on a system that supports dual channel, not triple channel RAM. At that resolution you shouldnt have any slowdown whatsoever. 6gb of RAM doesnt make sense on an AMD platform, it just doesnt.

It was a prebuilt computer when I bought it. If it isnt the CPU, what do you think it is then?

 

[InvalidError]

Another question. If I were to upgrade to a i5-3570k, would I need a new PSU?

If your current PSU works with your X6, there should be no reason to worry about that. An i5-3570 would require less power (30-40W less) than your current CPU, I would not expect any problems there.