Bottleneck?

[trainergames]

Can you guys help me determine how much of a bottleneck this system has,and what i can do to minimize it as much as possible.

Ok i am building a used parts build for my brother in law.

 

I know i am going to have some bottlenecking,but i would like to try to get rid of as much as i can.

 

My brother in law always leaves the game settings alone,and all he cares about is being able to play any game over 30fps.

 

Here is what is system is:,but not currently in it's final form.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 (Will be upgraded to an E5450 and plan to overclock it)

CM Tx3(will be upgraded,but not sure to what yet.)

Gigabyte board  (Will be changed to an Asus P5Q Turbo)

8GB of DDR2 800Mhz

Asus GTX 680 2GB

Corsair CX600M 600w PSU

1280x1024 monitor only used for testing it will be used with a 1680x1050 monitor.

 

Now in it's current setup i ran some benchmarks to get an idea of how bad the bottlenecks are.

here  are the results of the benchmarks,before i ran them i went into the drivers and slide the image settings to performance.

Spoiler

GTA 5                Min 19.51 Max  62.97 Avg  47.14

 

Batmam AC       Min 15.00 Max  74.00 Avg  45.00

 

Metro 2033        Min  6.26 Max 225.73 Avg  58.00

 

FryCry 3             Min 17.00 Max  72.00 Avg  44.03

 

Mafia 2               Min 32.00 Max 110.00 Avg  72.70

 

Just Cause 2
Dark Tower         Min N/A   Max 189.00 Avg 129.27
Desert sunrise    Min N/A   Max 189.00 Avg 144.27

Concrete Jungle Min N/A   Max  99.00 Avg  78.74

 

Arma 2          
Test 1                 Min N/A   Max  N/A   Avg  44.00
Test 2                 Min N/A   Max  N/A   Avg  13.00

 

Dirt 3                  Min 74.09 Max  N/A   Avg  94.25

 

Dirt Showdown   Min 52.58 Max  N/A   Avg  69.91

 

Resdient Evil 6   Min 31.00 Max 122.00 Avg  55.00
 

 

Star Swarm        Min N/A   Max  N/A   Avg  30.41

 

Heaven               Min  8.70 Max  92.70 Avg  58.70

 

Valley                  Min 12.80 Max  68.40 Avg  33.90

 

3D Mark

3D mark 11  P6004
Graphics      10023
Physics          2772
Combined      2659

 

Firestrike
Graphics        7422
Physics          4067
Combined      2361

 

Skydiver
Graphics      24727
Physics          3421
Combined      7711

 

Cloud Gate
Graphics       41676
Physics           2739
Combined     10020 

 

Ice Storm
Graphics        86759
Physics          29273
Combined      60400

 

Ice Storm Extreme
Graphics        84376
Physics          28954 
Combined      59196

 

Time Spy
Graphics       1907
CPU              1377

 

Cenibench
Open GL   41.81Fps
CPU          209 CB

 

AIDA64 

CpuQueen     21469

 

Black Hole
4 Threads      2736
Multithread     3008
Single thread  2124
Overall            7868

If it help i remember after the GTA 5  benchmark the GPU usage had not gone over 80%.

 

I know that overclocking the final CPU will help,but how much will i need, also is there settings in the drivers or in geforce experience that i can use along side the overclock to help get rid of as much of the bottleneck as possible.

 

 

Thank you guy for all the help.

[SLAYR]

Well you have to compare it to benchmarks with a 680, and something like a 6950k if you want to see what the gpu should be performing at.

 

nothing in the drivers will reduce the bottleneck besides you slowing the card down which will hurt fps.