I feel like my PC is running on a "sub-par" preformance.

[EmilianSpo]

Hello everyone,

I have a PC of mine which I refer to as "budget high-end" as in that I buy a part/upgrade a part every once a year or so.

Now I got a big GPU upgrade last year, very happy, and definitely an upgrade from my previous Sapphire Radeon 6770 to a Gigabyte GTX 770.

Although this improved my gaming experience quite a lot, I still feel my PC lacks that little "oomph" like I thought this GPU would give me.

I can only play some games on High settings while benchmarks said it could take Ultra smoothly, but my pc can't.

My parts:
Power: Corsair CX750W modular
Motherboard: ASRock Extreme3
CPU: AMD FX-6300 Vishera (6-core 3.5GHz, can be overclocked to 4.1 but haven't done that yet)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX770 2gb

Can someone please tell me what part is best to upgrade next to maximize the potential of this GPU?

Kind regards,
Emilian

 

[gregbattis]

Make sure you check all the nvidia settings. It could be using your cpu for the actual running of the games.