Howto tweak performance

[Doubleugee]

Hi all of you, as I am new to this forum I do not know if this is the right place to post my question. I think it has to do with components -)) so here i go.

I have the following gaming rig:

MBO: Asrock extreme 4 z77
CPU: I5-3470 oc to 4ghz
Memory: 16gb (2 modules in dual channel mode) 1600mhz corsair vengeance
GPU: 2x Sapphire HD7950 OC boost vapor x with a oc to 1100/1350
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Monitor: Benq xl2411t 120hz
Recording: FRAPS

Now I have been tweaking a lot with my rig. I use Battlefield 3 and the Battlefield 4 beta as reference. In BF3 I only manage to get between 70 and 105 FPS (ultra and high settings in auto mode). It sometimes drops to 60 fps. I recently monitored the CPU for bottlenecking my setup and I found out that all the 4 cores of my 3470 are up to 100% utilization when running BF3 and BF4 beta. But reading online tells me that the 3470 is a very good Ivy bridge CPU that should be able to handle 2 hd 7950 in crossfire on maxed out settings and +120 fps all the time. I have installed the latest AMD 13.11 beta 6 drivers (yesterday) but I am not getting my rig to perform as I expect it to perform.

Do I miss something in the picture? Are there still some optimization tweaks left to explore?

 

[dish_moose]

Look at your FSPs - that is good. The only way to get better with your current xfire is to go to an unlocked cpu and OC.
-Bruce

 

[Doubleugee]

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