AMD Phenom II x4 840 and Sapphire Radeon 7770 OC Bottleneck

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nakzjamz456

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Hey guys I'm new here and this is my first post in this forum. My fps in Skyrim is too low compared to the benchmark videos on youtube and I always get stutters on Skyrim and BF3. Is my CPU bottlenecking my GPU? Should I overclock my CPU?

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AMD Phenom II x4 840 3.20ghz
4gb(2x2gb) Ram unganged
Sapphire Radeon 7770 OC Ghz Edition
Biostar N68S3B
500GB HDD(tried formatting and reinstalling Windows 7, no improvements)



I tried setting my BF3 settings to low and I still got horrible stutters.


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:bounce: sweet deal :bounce:

Ya the texture pack can put a pretty heav demand on your hardware. Hvae you tried lower setting with the High Res pack installed? Also oyu may be able to run the high res pack if you lower your viewing distance and shadows. Both of those settings are GPU memory hogs.
 

nakzjamz456

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I tried lowering the settings(1366x768 res) with hi-res texture pack and the stuttering disappeared :D

FPS= 60
 
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