APU(CPU) Not performing as good as it should?

[Megazone2011]

So about December last year I bought a HP PC, not the best PC. Anyway, so the APU Is has is the "AMD A10-7800", it runs at a speed of 3.5ghz and turbo speed of 3.9ghz. The multiplier is locked therefor no overclocking (I could use the bios, but it's got a HP Customized BIOS and there's absoloutely no options). I recently bought a Gigabyte GTX 960 ITX Edition and had it installed along with a 500w Power Supply. Now. There's many games that are very CPU limited and when buying the graphics card I never thought of the APU Bottlenecking. Many games including Battlefield 4, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V, all have a problem running. The GPU Is at about 70% using and the APU is at 90+ %, Now I'm not sure if it's just because the APU's performance is not very great or somethings going on. Any Help?

HP MODEL: HP 500-402A
APU: AMD A10-7800
GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 960 ITX 2GB DDR5
RAM: 16GB 1600MHZ RAM
MOTHERBOARD: MSI MS-7906 (FM2+ SOCKET)

 

[Rhezner]

make sure that there aren't any background programs running. It performs a bit worse than an fx 6300 which is pretty decent. It is expected that it would bottleneck in some games as they are cpu itensive.

 

[Megazone2011]

Thanks for your reply , However. I try my best to end almost every task before gaming. The only Tasks I have open are skype and steam as I need to communicate with my mates on skype and use steam to play.

 

[hang-the-9]

The A10 is a lower end CPU for gaming use, if you have issues in games try lowering settings and resolution.