What is bottle necking my pc?

[kabrty]

I have not been getting good frames on many games and I think there is a bottleneck in my PC but im not sure what it is.
SPECS:
CPU:AMD FX6300
GPU: NVIDIA 1050ti
Motherboard: Gigabyte 9990FXA-UD3
RAM: 8gb corsair vengeance
STORAGE(probably not relevant): CRUCIAL 275gb
POWER SUPPLY(also probably not relevant): 750 watt Modular (yes i know its overkill.)
Thanks
-kabrty

 

[MnMWizard]

Most likely your CPU, but in a few GPU demanding games possibly your GPU. In games that require strong cores like Battlefield, Witcher 3(in major city areas), DayZ, some RTS/4X games, etc., your CPU is probably causing dips regularly, so if I were you I would upgrade it first. If you're planning to upgrade soon give me your budget and I'll give advice.

 

[kabrty]

My budget for a cpu would be 100-150

 

[MnMWizard]

Well the only upgrade that would get you is an 8-core FX chip which wouldn't really even be an upgrade for that money. I'd say this list is the best upgrade for the price, but it's unfortunate that RAM has gotten so expensive:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9WbkzM

 

[amtseung]

Another solution with a phat obligatory YMMV slapped on it is to actually look back a generation or two, find yourself a Phenom II x4 965 Black edition (no racist) or something similar, and a reasonably beefy CPU cooler. Yes, it'll fit in your current motherboard (AM3+ is backwards compatible with AM3), no you won't need new RAM. With a motherboard like yours, which has OC-friendly features and plenty of VRM headroom, overclocking should be a walk in the park for either CPU.

If you can hit 3.8ghz+ on said 965 Black Edition, you've already exceeded FX octacore in-game performance, especially in single-thread-heavy games, about equal to a Bloomfield/Lynnfield intel CPU. My Bloomfield i7-940-equivalent Xeon W3540 at stock 2.93ghz outperforms a stock FX8320 in games, and about equally when the FX is pushed all the way to 5ghz. When the Xeon is overclocked, it leaves the OC'ed FX in the dust again.

The last temporary workaround I can think of with another big YMMV slapped on it is to disable every second core per module and then OC the living hell out of your FX6300. It's probably the best gaming performance you're going to get out of it.

For the love of god, and for the love of your own bank account, don't buy another FX in this day and age. It was obsolete before it was even announced, let alone launched.

It's the sad truth of all the FX chips: they're awful, especially for gaming. I mean, a 5.1ghz FX8320 with hundreds of dollars of water cooling slapped on it can't even hope to keep up with a 9-10 year old CPU, let alone the newer Skylake/Kabylake hyperthreaded Pentiums at a mere fraction of the operating cost.

TLDR: Your CPU is most likely the bottleneck, especially if you play older DX9/DX10 titles. If the game is built on UE3, ForgeLight, CryEngine, etc., forget any semblance of performance on an FX. OC the living daylights out of your FX6300 (you have a super beefy mobo after all), and save up in the meanwhile for a Ryzen 5 upgrade or something.