Does I7 3930k Bottleneck Radeon 7970?

[thebattalion]

Im a little confused. I recently bought an i7 3930k, and a radeon 7970. I booted up bf3 got the latest 12.11 driver, max settings, and I only get 60 fps? I saw videos where people are getting 100+ with the radeon and driver, and I only get 60. The 3930k is clocked at 3.2Ghz and the radeon is stock clock. In games like arma. i get like 40 fps. Does my cpu bottleneck my gpu?

 

[i8myhippo]

No, there is no [conceivable] way that your CPU bottlenecks. I don't know where the problem is, could you give us more details? Specs, temps during play?

 

[thebattalion]

so how would i get these say cores to work?

 

[djangoringo]

If you wanted/want more fps, buy another card to crossfire.
That cpu will not bring any fps gains vs other quad core from intel.

 

[dish_moose]

3.2GHz is way slower than your cpu will OC. Do you have a cpu cooler - if not get one and crank up your clock to 4.2-4.5GHz.
-Bruce

 

[ikes9711]

Overclocking might help push your fps some because the games will focus more on cpu speed than the amount of cores

 

[Sumukh_Bhagat]

Maybe in BF3 you have Enabled V-sync and your Monitor is only 60Hz.
So you'll just get 60fps. Nothing more than that.

And for Arma II, its a old game.
It isn't optimized for i3\5\7 series