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Motherboard upgrade?

BF3 is GPU intensive,

After reading blogs and articles, it appears that your CPU and MOBO are fine but your graphic card may be suffering and have a hell of a time delivering 30~60 FPS in higher end settings.
BF3 recommends a Nvidia 490 or 5xx series and AMD comparable fir high end settings

Hope that helps