Am I being "Bottle-necked"?

[HRH]

I recently built a system with an i5-660 Cpu, an AMD Radeon 5870 1GB (ever so slightly over-clocked), 16GB DDR3 and an HP 'MSI' OEM motherboard. I've got a VS550 PSU if that helps. I have recently installed some games and have noticed that my Cpu is almost always at 100% in game but my Gpu is normally around 20%. This is a Cpu bottleneck for sure?! But bottleneck calculators say there isn't a bottleneck. As you can tell this is a budget build so I need to fix this cheaply. Does anyone have any ideas for any Cpu's I could use?

[SPARTAN VI]

Sounds like the CPU cant keep up.

 

What's your budget?

Where are you located?

What is your display's native resolution? 

What game/s do you play?

[HRH]

Just now, spartanvi said:

Sounds like the CPU cant keep up.

 

What's your budget?

Where are you located?

What is your display's native resolution? 

What game/s do you play?

I'm in the UK and my budget is like £75, I use a 1080p 60Hz monitor. I tested Fortnite and Apex Legends and will mostly play them and CS:GO.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, HRH said:

I'm in the UK and my budget is like £75, I use a 1080p 60Hz monitor. I tested Fortnite and Apex Legends and will mostly play them and CS:GO.

Given how old your system is, unless you get a good deal on the used market, you're going to need more than that. Preferably you should upgrade the motherboard, CPU, and possibly RAM (depending on what you go to).

[HRH]

Ok thank you guys, honestly this is the best community I ever joined. You answered in like a minute.

[Terabyte_272]

If you really want an upgrade that will give you some more life out of your pc with that budget you could get a i7 880 or a x3470 for about £17-£28

[Terabyte_272]

Those prices are from sellers on ebay

@HRH

[Curious Pineapple]

28 minutes ago, HRH said:

Ok thank you guys, honestly this is the best community I ever joined. You answered in like a minute.

Just wait until you show any interest in buying an AMD processor

[TechyBen]

4 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

If you really want an upgrade that will give you some more life out of your pc with that budget you could get a i7 880 or a x3470 for about £17-£28

If the motherboard can be upgraded/compatible yeah, the 3 series and 4 series CPUs are cheap and have good performance (for the cost).

Though my 3470 cost me £50

 

[Terabyte_272]

3 hours ago, TechyBen said:

If the motherboard can be upgraded/compatible yeah, the 3 series and 4 series CPUs are cheap and have good performance (for the cost).

Though my 3470 cost me £50

 

no im talking about his mobo now which is a lga 1156 which can support a i7 880 or a x3470 both of which are great options for his price range. also he said £75 was his budget 3000 and 4000 series intel cpus are expensive for the mobo and cpu

[TechyBen]

5 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

no im talking about his mobo now which is a lga 1156 which can support a i7 880 or a x3470 both of which are great options for his price range. also he said £75 was his budget 3000 and 4000 series intel cpus are expensive for the mobo and cpu

My bad, never knew there were ZXeons with similar numbering to the i5s...

 

It might be possible to get a 3000 series chip for £50 and a mobo for £25 if you shop around!

[HRH]

Ok got it thanks for the help!