Can i fix this bottleneck?

[Captain_France]

Alright, I have a i7 930, 2.8 GHz, with turbo speed of 3.1 GHz, and for Christmas my brother got me an R9 290x

 

How can i fix this bottleneck, Is overclocking on such an old cpu a good idea? or is it time for an upgrade? 

[WoodenMarker]

Overclocking the cpu can help relieve the bottleneck. 

[Fate]

Overclock should eliminate a lot of it.

[Tagiau]

Whoa whoa whoa there, no need to call it old. And overclocking it won't hurt it, and it will get rid of a lot of the bottle-necking. 

[FruitBasketSilex]

I'm throwing my vote at the overclocking party as well.

[Captain_France]

Whoa whoa whoa there, no need to call it old. And overclocking it won't hurt it, and it will get rid of a lot of the bottle-necking. 

I honestly love this cpu. I have had 3 gpu's with this one cpu.

 

So is there an easy way overclock it?

[Tagiau]

So is there an easy way overclock it?

If what you are looking for is a guide to overclocking, I know of this one http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_i7_920_overclocking I know it says 920, but it will work on a 930 with no issue. 

[WaitForMeImOnDialUp]

if you're on lga 1366 and if your motherboard happens to be a x58 a used x5650 off ebay for 70 bucks would be a nice upgrade for you

[SteveGrabowski]

tomshardware has your CPU right on the borderline of Tier 2 and Tier 3 for gaming CPUs: i7-930 is Tier 3, i7-960 is Tier 2. So an overclock should put you solidly into Tier 2 where you probably wouldn't bottleneck that 290x except in really CPU bound games like Crysis 3 or Arma.