Need feedback on if my system is bottle-necked somewhere

[jkelley9]

Would someone please help determine if I need to upgrade some other parts for my PC? I was hoping not to have to buy a bunch of parts... but if there's a glaring bottle-neck I will go ahead and replace anything I should:

Phenom II x4 965 Black (3.4 ghz)
ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)

Semi-new parts (last 3 months):
Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC SSD (relatively recent purchase)

Brand new parts coming:
MSI Radeon R9 390 DirectX 12 R9 390 8GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP
Rosewill RBR1000-MS 1000W Active PFC PSU


I'm thinking that there's a possibility that my CPU and RAM may be kind of slow for this new 390 gfx card? The only game I play is WoW, going to try playing at max setting now (OSU and GFX haven't arrived yet) with this new card. I play on a 34" ultrawide 2560x1080 monitor with 5ms. Should I upgrade CPU, RAM, motherboard?

Thanks in advance! 😀

 

[BadActor]

Check your CPU and GPU usage while running the game. If the CPU is consistently maxed while the GPU usage is low, you might be bottlenecked. You can use a program like MSI Afterburner or HWInfo to check.

 

[jkelley9]

Check your CPU and GPU usage while running the game. If the CPU is consistently maxed while the GPU usage is low, you might be bottlenecked. You can use a program like MSI Afterburner or HWInfo to check.

Oh okay. I've never had a problem with temps or CPU usage in WoW, and I'm about to upgrade my card from an HD 6870 to an R9 390. My graphics card was on the fritz, hence the need to upgrade. So if I run the setting higher and see GPU and CPU usage not maxed out... then I'm good to go?

 

[BadActor]

Yep!

 

[jkelley9]

So could you tell my why sometimes I drop frame rate but my GPU usage (on my HD 6870) doesn't ever really go over ~60%? Same with the CPU. I never have a core that goes over ~70% for an extended period of time. It spikes up and down but definitely nothing is cruising at > 80% for anything longer than maybe 1 second

 

[BadActor]

Sometimes it just something in the game that will drag the FPS down.