Need help with bottlenecking problems.

[Zoidberg]

So i have an msi r9 270 gaming 2gb GPU

and an amd athlon 2 64

I run games in with a resolution of 1280x1024

with all the settings on lowest.

 

My cpu is from 2005 and is pretty bad, but my gpu is really good and i am having big bottlenecking problems.

 

Is there anyway to deal with bottlenecking except for buying a new cpu?

and is there a way to make the gpu do more work and the cpu less?

 

Please let me know, i have bad fps and frame drops in most new games, especially source games like tf2 because they need more cpu than other games.

[vengeancek70]

No there is now other way to deal with botttlenecking except buying a new cpu.

But it does depend on the game, so some should work better than others.

[WereCat]

Hi. I think that problem is somewhere else Yes you are probably getting bottlenecked but you should still play games like TF2 on high settings with that CPU. On my old PC I was able to play TF2 on high with ATI Radeon HD 3870 + Athlon 2 x64 (1024x768 resolution).

[Gloxxy]

The fact that you have a processor from 2005 would also mean that you have a really old Motherboard too which will have PCI-E v.1, and old DDR2 RAM which is also slow as hell. Bottleneck after bottleneck after bottleneck!

[Zoidberg]

The fact that you have a processor from 2005 would also mean that you have a really old Motherboard too which will have PCI-E v.1, and old DDR2 RAM which is also slow as hell. Bottleneck after bottleneck after bottleneck!

No, i have DDR3 RAM.

 

Anyway, looks like nobody is helping...  

 

If anyone here could tell me what options in game affect the gpu and what effects the cpu, let me know