CPU bottlenecking GTX 970?

So I've been playing BF4 and my fps Is dropping from 80 to 45-50 every now and then with no explosions going off on Low, Med and High settings.. All my other games are somewhat fine with fps but It's been bugging me becauase I know I should be getting more fps with no spikes.

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5ghz w/ CM 212 Evo

GPU: EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0

Ram: Corsair Vengeance 8gb ram 1600mhz

x2 1TB HDD 7200rpm

Case: NZXT Source 530

MOBO: M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ USB3

PSU: CiT 850w

yes totally.

Totally It's bottlenecking? Any Idea how to fix? Upgrading CPU?

yeah , some will argue, but even a 8350 will bottle neck all the 900 series nvidia cards. is your cpu at 100% when gaming? also depends on the game alot.

I'll test the usage, what CPU do you recommend?

90+% usage cpu

Here is a similar discussion.

 https://teksyndicate.com/forum/gpu/gtx-970-amd-fx-6300/191012

An 8350 will help (25% more cores) but with that mobo you shouldn't overclock much.

Are you playing multiplayer BF4?

Yeah It was on a 64player server, Golmud Railway.

How does the game play in single player?

Plus I don't feel safe OCing, I have a fear I might blow the f*cker up.

Not tried.

Here is another relevant discussion.

 https://teksyndicate.com/forum/pc-gaming/horrible-bf4-performance/191169

Just tried Campaign, 3 fps drops for about 2secs, Lowest drop was 34 by blowing up the wall with 6 C4.

I had a FX6300, that mobo and cooler with 2 AMD HD7950s crossfired and found a pretty good boost overclocking to 4-4.2 ghz over stock clocks. You might want to give that a try.

Would that stop the bottlenecking you think?

It aint going to hurt and will improve your performance.

I don't exactly know how to OC too, let alone trust myself.

I had too go back a ways this was the thread that helped me. gigabusterEXE is wise and helped a lot.

https://teksyndicate.com/comment/1406987#comment-1406987


Anarekist is totaly right ☺

BF4 multiplayer is a cpu + gpu bound gaming scenario, FX cpu´s will slightly bottleneck highend gpu´s like GTX970 / 980.

I hope that the new Direct X 12 api will bring some changes in that.

not to threadjack, but mystery, have you tried this on your amd? mine is not setup at the moment for gaming and I am super curious. pistol I think might also be trying it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/2oielk/a_piece_of_software_that_vastly_improved_my_fps/ 

https://bitsum.com/processlasso/ << that thing, apparently.