Is my 6200 a bottleneck ?

[james lewandowski]

I play a lot of battlefield 3 and recently bought a sapphire 7870 XT 2gb gpu
I installed it updated drivers and such and started playing bf3 it played a lot better than my 7770 and on ultra preset i got around 40-50fps. I thought I could get more from my rig so i have OC'd my CPU to 4.2ghz i ran prime for about 40 mins and temps seem fine and I have no errors. I have also OC'd my gpu core to 1100mhz which from some people's standards is only a mild overclock.

In game i monitor each core as i thought my cpu was holding me back on some cores i get 80 - 90 load mainly core 0 - 3 and on the last 2 i get around 50-60. with around 40fps. Is my CPU holding me back or am i asking too much from it. I only play 1080p and I like to record game play I will go Intel if this will sort out my problem please leave some suggestions.

a screenshot of ingame monitoring: http://i.imgur.com/6jAlLm7.jpg

This is a common situation cpu load is 80-90% yet gpu load is around 60-70%

full specs

FX 6200 @ 4.2GHZ
Sapphire 7870 XT (Tahiti core) @ 1100mhx gpu core + 1500mhz memory
MSI 990xa-gd55
8gb Kingston HyperX Grey 1600mhz
320gb HDD for boot and games
1tb USB 3.0 HDD for recording
7 x gentle typhoon in a CM elite 430

 

[COLGeek]

Seems to me that your system is performing just fine. CPU load and GPU load don't need to match. Are you experiencing any lag issues?

 

[lazyboy947]

wat settings and resolution?

 

[james lewandowski]

Seems to me that your system is performing just fine. CPU load and GPU load don't need to match. Are you experiencing any lag issues?

wat settings and resolution?

Its just I thought battlefield was very cpu bound and as my gpu load is low would getting a better cpu up the fps i would like to play on ultra with 60fps minimum

 

[james lewandowski]

wat settings and resolution?

1920x1080 at the minute im using the high preset with dxtory and getting a solid 60fps plus yet im recording in 720p at 30fps its just if i was to get say a 8350 would this improve my experience? thanks for the replies

 

[COLGeek]

Stepping up to a FX-8350 would only provide a marginal increase in performance. Seriously, I think you are fine as you are now.