So a year or two ago, I built my first PC with an AMD FX-6300 and a 1050ti SC. Recently I started playing more AAA games and was getting a low framerate in most of them. I knew that my CPU was bottlenecking the 1050ti by at least a bit, but I decided to hold out for a bit until I bought my new components. Now, I have a 980 FTW and an FX-8350 (I didn't want to change motherboards so I stuck with AM3+ chipset). As far as I'm concerned, the FX-8350 doesn't bottleneck the 980 much, if at all. Yet I still get ~41 fps in Rainbow Six Siege on lowest settings at 1440x900, which is about what I got with my original setup. I'm hoping what I just bought wasn't a total waste of money, and even tried cleaning my hard drive and am about to try to scan for viruses. Is there anything I'm missing or should try?
Sidenote: I looked at other posts, but they all seemed to involve marginal upgrades like from a 750 to 1050, but from a 1050ti to a 980 seems like much more of a jump, and I compared benchmarks (pictured below) as well just to be sure. Also, I tried running the game at the highest settings my VRAM would handle, and it ran at the exact same framerate as it did on lowest settings. I'm sure this has some relation to the problem.
Thanks a ton!
Sidenote: I looked at other posts, but they all seemed to involve marginal upgrades like from a 750 to 1050, but from a 1050ti to a 980 seems like much more of a jump, and I compared benchmarks (pictured below) as well just to be sure. Also, I tried running the game at the highest settings my VRAM would handle, and it ran at the exact same framerate as it did on lowest settings. I'm sure this has some relation to the problem.
Thanks a ton!