Question Is MY CPU Bottlenecking ?

[amkokole123]

I need help to see is my cpu bottlenecking and need some answers and help...
my budget is also really tight
I recently got EVGA 1060 6GB (got it used at amazing price its pretty much new with warranty)
my CPU is i5-3470 (3rd gen at 3.2Ghz and 3.6 Turbo)
and my ram is 8GB DDR3

first game that i ran was Battlefield 1 (Cuz I love that game), and i noticed my frames are even worse droppin to -40/45/50 at high sometimes even 30..
and I remembered this thing called bottleneck.I went to afterburner and saw that the GPU Usage is at around 40/50/60/70 but mostly 50
and my CPU Usage is 100%!!! at max turbo..

PS: Idk if ram is bottlenecking2 didn't check that

so my question is

1. Is it bottlenecking (cuz I think it is, im still new to this)
2. if it is bottlenecking and my budget is tight (I was thinking to upgrade to i7-2600 (i7-2600K is 40$ more for some reason in my country) and hope that its enough to play some AAA games without bottleneck i7-2600 and if it will fix bottlenecking and maybe just maybe i7-3770 (this is less to happen but still.. would consider)

3.Maybe my ram too?

think i messed up grammar somewhere (English not my 1st language sorry).
Thank you in advance

 

[InvalidError]

8GB of RAM is a bit on the low side for modern games, as is a plain quad-core CPU. Switching to a CPU with HT will give you up to about 30% more performance in the more heavily threaded games and software, which may or may not be enough to get performance up to whatever level you seek.

Upgrading the GPU shouldn't make FPS any worse than they were unless BF1 settings are on automatic and a CPU-intensive feature got bumped up due to the GPU upgrade.

 

[amkokole123]

8GB of RAM is a bit on the low side for modern games, as is a plain quad-core CPU. Switching to a CPU with HT will give you up to about 30% more performance in the more heavily threaded games and software, which may or may not be enough to get performance up to whatever level you seek.

Upgrading the GPU shouldn't make FPS any worse than they were unless BF1 settings are on automatic and a CPU-intensive feature got bumped up due to the GPU upgrade.

the auto settings were All on medium and idk what are cpu intensive settings (like what to turn off)

 

[InvalidError]

I don't play BF1, so I have no idea how tweakable graphics are in there. The main thing I can think of that involves both the GPU and CPU would be physics if BF1 has optional destructible environment features.

 

[boju]

BF1&5 give even the best cpus today a workout. Extra threads on an i7 would help albeit 16GB ram in dual channel would also be recommended.

There's not much you can do really to improve your current system's performance besides trying to run little as possible background services in windows to free up resources for the cpu. A program like Winaero may help with that.

 

[jostegogar]

disable or lower Level of Details in settings if that exist. that is cpu intensive setting

 

[jostegogar]

im also using single channel 8gb ddr4 with i5 8400 and 1660ti. on BF5 im averaging around 80 fps on ultra. so it wont affect gaming that much maybe 5 fps loss.. on mid tier system like yours

 

[amkokole123]

BF1&5 give even the best cpus today a workout. Extra threads on an i7 would help albeit 16GB ram in dual channel would also be recommended.

There's not much you can do really to improve your current system's performance besides trying to run little as possible background services in windows to free up resources for the cpu. A program like Winaero may help with that.

I think i will get i7 2600 along with additional 8Gbs of ram, because of sweet deal i founded and will hope that extra threads will stabilize my fps. And i hope that 16GB of ram will be sufficient