Bottleneck or not?

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Technically it does (at least with Intel cpus), but you can always reset the overclock and Intel usually won't care. 

Then what's the point of having locked CPUs.  doesn't make any sense...

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

If you're not going to overclock, then I'd try to sell your current board and cpu and pick up an i5 (or a Xeon E3 1231v3) and literally any MSI, Gigabyte, Asrock, or Asus board. The i5 route will cost $230~ while the Xeon route would be like $300~. Both will yield similar-ish performance with the Xeon having an advantage in certain newer AAA titles. Going forward the Xeon will likely prove advantageous, but how advantageous is really yet to be determined (I personally wouldn't expect a Xeon to be able to handle a game that an i5 couldn't unless the game was a horribly unoptimized mess to begin with -- again, to be clear, this is my GUESS). 

agreed on all accounts. 

 

[Simon771]

It's obvious that you have huge bottleneck with that CPU, just like veryone else said.

Try to use MSI afterburner and check GPU load, CPU load and Frame time. I bet your CPU is 100% load and frame times are 100ms, while your's GPU usage is on maybe 50%.